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Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University

Australia has ministers for seniors and youth. So why not a minister for children?

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Child safety and wellbeing is never far from the headlines, and no more so than recently, with shocking allegations of child sexual abuse in childcare centres.

These revelations have sparked much-needed national conversations about how we can better protect children. They have also exposed how fragmented and reactive Australia’s approach to ensuring child safety can be.

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