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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Archbishop Dr Philip Freier
Dr Philip Freier became the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne in December 2006, following seven and a half years as Bishop of the Northern Territory. Previously he had been in ministry in Queensland, first among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in north Queensland, and then as a parish priest in Brisbane. His doctorate, from James Cook University, is a history of the Mitchell River Mission, now known as Kowanyama.
Since coming to Melbourne, Dr Freier has been working towards engaging the Church with the wider community, particularly through his ‘Prayer4Melbourne’ quest, in which he has visited a range of public spaces, welfare centres and shopping malls, in order to meet people from all walks of life. The Archbishop is closely involved in a range of community organisations, and is strongly committed to social justice issues, with a particular concern for Indigenous people. His public Breakfast Conversations have included themes of the rising incidence of childhood depression, global warming and world poverty, and the pursuit of happiness. He has called for a national inquiry into the state of childhood in Australia.
Dr Freier will speak on “Creating a public space where children thrive”
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Julie Gale
Julie Gale is the founder of Kids Free 2B Kids. She is also a comedy writer and performer and has performed her one woman shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Julie has been raising public, corporate and political awareness about the sexualisation of children since February 2007. She has generated great media interest about the issue and has appeared on television, radio and in newspaper articles throughout Australia and internationally.
Julie’s work instigated changes to the children's advertising codes and she also helped to instigate last year's senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment.Julie received a 2009 National Leadership Achievement Award from the Centre for Leadership for Women.
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Professor Elizabeth Handsley
Professor of Law, Flinders University (specialising in children and the media); President of Australian Council on Children and the Media
Elizabeth has a special interest in media law as it affects young audiences, and she conducts research and is supervising an LLM thesis on the regulation of food advertising in Australia, New Zealand, North America and Europe |
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