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Children going hungry, missing school amid Australia’s ‘perfect storm’ cost-of-living crisis
Researchers and frontline charities are seeing a growing number of Australian children going hungry and missing school
More for Children: Child-Centred Indicators of Multidimensional Poverty More for Children Discussion Paper 1
Discussion paper on the development of child-centred indicators of multidimensional poverty based...
We should be looking at what we can add to children’s lives instead of what we take away
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced the government’s plan to introduce legislation to ban younger teens from social media.
More for Children Issues Paper 1: Transport
An overview of findings from the More for Children program of research, focusing on lack of transport as an element of multidimensional child poverty.
More for Children Issues Paper 2: Housing
This issues paper focuses on what children told us about housing – and how their lives are impacted when housing is unaffordable, inadequate or insecure.
More for Children Issues Paper 3: Food Insecurity
This issues paper focuses on what children told us when they and their families cannot afford quality, nutritious food.
More for Children: Children’s Experiences of Poverty in Australia
Bessell, S. and O'Sullivan, C. 2024. More for Children: Children’s Experiences ofPoverty in...
More for Children: Rights-based Methodology for Research with Children about Poverty
Bessell, S. and O'Sullivan, C. 2024. More for Children: Rights-based Methodology for Research with...
New Publication
The Children’s Policy Centre has just released a new publication:
Listening to child refugees and asylum seekers in Australia-what matters most – Refugee Research Online
Authors: Dr Cahdla O’Sullivan / Professor Sharon Bessell
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