How technology can be the abuser's best friend
Nearly all family violence involves technology, from location trackers to spyware and webcams. But a new program is providing help and support.
Clare Kermond is a senior writer and editor at the Age who writes across a broad range of social and cultural topics. She is a former editor of the Age (melbourne) magazine and has a background in political and industrial relations reporting.
Nearly all family violence involves technology, from location trackers to spyware and webcams. But a new program is providing help and support.
Teachers and parents are struggling with a rise in teenagers pushing themselves so hard to be perfect, that they risk their mental health and, ironically, their academic success.
Teachers and parents are struggling with a rise in teenagers pushing themselves so hard to be perfect, that they risk their mental health and, ironically, their academic success.
Teachers and parents are struggling with a rise in teenagers pushing themselves so hard to be perfect, that they risk their mental health and, ironically, their academic success.
Disabled prisoners are invisible in the official records and receive little support inside jail.
When Cameron Cox came out to his gay friends, letting them know he was a sex worker, about half turned their backs on him: "that was it, I was socially beyond the pale".
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Doctors have urged parents to take care using steam vaporisers, after a study found one child each month suffered burns from the popular devices, have of them requiring surgery.
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Tertiary campuses are battling a spate of aggressive, online harassment of female students, including threats of death and rape.
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