Abuse research leads first media update for 2012

Child abuse research leads our first Centre media update for 2012. Child protection stories from several states and territories also feature.

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Child abuse research

• Boys abuse in home first: sex study, The Age, 11 January 2012

Child protection

• Aboriginal child protection system in crisis, ABC Radio National PM, 6 January 2012
   
• Child protection review to examine 100 cases, ABC News Online, 6 January 2012
   
• 93 forgotten kids lose lives, Herald Sun, 4 January 2012
   
• Statistics put above children’s welfare: report, The Examiner, 16 December 2011
   
• House of Assembly Select Committee on Child Protection (inc. link to final report), Parliament of Tasmania
   
• Liberals the answer to child protection woes?, RiotACT, 6 January 2012
   
• A decade of child protection recommendations to roll out next year, RiotACT, 20 December 2011
   

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