Lyn Allison
Lyn Allison served 12 years in the Senate from 1996, the last two as leader of the Australian Democrats. She held the education, health and environment portfolios for most of that time.
Since leaving the Senate, Lyn has become a director of Vision Australia, Orygen Youth Mental Health Research, the Mental Illness Fellowship of Victoria, Alzheimer's Australia, Berry Street and Family Planning Victoria and is on the Council of Women's Health Victoria.
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Steve Biddulph
Steve Biddulph has been a psychologist for thirty years, and his books on parenthood are in four million homes worldwide. He was voted Australian Father of the Year in 2000 for his work with fathers. He consults worldwide on parenthood and boys education. He is also the founder of the SIEVX Refugee Memorial in Canberra.
Steve is a patron of Australian Council on Children and the Media
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Dr Michael Carr-Gregg
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg is a Consultant Adolescent Psychologist working in private practice in Kew. He has held a variety of appointments including Executive Director of the New Zealand Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.
Michael has extensive experience in the media and is currently a regular on Melbourne radio 3AW, Sunrise and the Morning Show on Channel 7. In 2002 Michael was asked to be the official psychologist to Girlfriend Magazine. He is author of 5 best selling books including the Princess Bitchface Syndrome published by Penguin in 2006 and now in its 8th reprint.
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Dr Glenn Cupit
Dr Glenn Cupit is Senior Lecturer in Child Development in the deLissa Institute of Early Childhood and Family Studies at the University of South Australia. He coordinates undergraduate research training and the Honours strand of the Bachelor of Early Childhood Education. Glenn has written three relevant books, Kids and the scary world of video (Australian Council on Children and Media), The child audience (Australian Broadcasting Tribunal), and Socialising the superheroes (Early Childhood Australia).
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Dr Cordelia Fine
Cordelia Fine is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, and the author of A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and deceives.
She will discuss what cognitive science tells us about how marketing influences us, and the implications of this for marketing to children.
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Julie Gale
Julie Gale, the founding Director of Kids Free 2B Kids, is a comedy writer and performer who has been raising public and corporate awareness about the sexualisation of children over the past year.
She has generated great media interest about the issue and has appeared on television, radio and in newspaper articles throughout Australia and internationally.
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Professor Elizabeth Handsley
Professor of Law, Flinders University (specialising in children and the media); Vice-President of Australian Council on Children and the Media
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Fiona Jolly
Fiona has been CEO of the Advertising Standards Bureau since October 2005 following an extensive and diverse career with a number of Commonwealth Government departments. In her role Fiona works with industry, government and the community to resolve complaints about advertising on all media in Australia.
Her presentation will cover work undertaken by the Advertising Standards Bureau into issues related to the AANA Code of Ethics such as sex, sexuality and nudity and advertising to children.
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Scott McLellan
Scott McClellan became CEO of the Australian Association of National Advertisers in November 2008 having previously been Executive Director of the Association of Market and Social Research Organisations.
He has a keen interest in industry self-regulation and has developed codes of conduct for a range of industries from direct marketing, to general insurance and biometrics. In 2005 he developed the Code of Practice for the clubs industry in NSW.Scott holds an honours degree in Journalism and is currently completing a masters in legal studies at the University of NSW.
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Bernadette McMenamin AO
Bernadette McMenamin, CEO of Childwise, is highly regarded in Australia and overseas as a successful advocate and innovator in the prevention of child sexual abuse. A founding member of ECPAT International in Thailand in 1992, Bernadette founded Child Wise as ECPAT Australia in 1993. Bernadette has a Masters in International Social Work and has won numerous awards in recognition of her contribution to the protection of children from sexual abuse.
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Hon Alastair Nicholson AO
The Hon Alastair Nicholson, former Chief Justice, Family Court of Australia, Honorary Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne, Founding Patron Children’s Rights International and Chair, National Centre Against Bullying.
Alastair Nicholson will introduce the day’s programme and will deal in particular with the rights of children and their right not to be exploited by sexualisation in advertising and otherwise
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Rita Princi
Director and clinical psychologist, Princi Consulting. Rita works with, lectures to University students about, and gives regular media interviews on, children, adolescents and parents. She was national President of the Australian Psychological Society’s Child, Adolescent and Family Interest Group 2004- 2008. Through Associate with Life, she also provides workshops to the corporate world on parenting children 0-5, 6-12, and 16-19.
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Dr Emma Rush
Dr Emma Rush is the lead author of the Australia Institute discussion papers on the sexualisation of children that set off widespread public discussion of the issue in late 2006. She is currently lecturing in ethics at Charles Sturt University.
Emma will speak about the background to the Australia Institute reports, the important contribution they made to public articulation of a complex topic, the response from professionals and the wider public, and constructive recommendations made by the reports.
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Professor Ann Sanson
Ann Sanson is the Network Coordinator for the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) and an Associate Professor in Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne. Her main research interests revolve around the interplay of intrinsic child characteristics and family and contextual factors in the development of good and poor psychosocial adjustment. Assoc. She is the Principal Scientific Advisor for “Growing up in Australia”, the longitudinal study which follows the development of 10,000 Australian children. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society.
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