Residential care and human rights in the media

Today’s media update leads with reported allegations by former workers and a former board member from Warrnambool community service organisation, Community Connections. There was also substantial coverage over the weekend of the human rights charter and sentencing.

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Residential care allegations

• Serious allegations against residential care, ABC TV, 7.30 Victoria, 8 August 2011
   
• Community Connections under fire, The Warrnambool Standard, 8 August 2011
   

Human rights charter

• Leaked costings add fuel to charter debate, Sunday Age, 7 August 2011
   
• Indefence of Victoria’s human rights charter, Sunday Age, 7 August 2011
   
• Let parents smack kids, says church, Herald Sun, 8 August 2011
   
• A question of punishment, Herald Sun, 8 August 2011
   

Sentencing

• Chief magistrate hits tough-on-crime plan, Sunday Age, 7 August 2011
   

Also of interest

• Jobless poorer parents, says study, Sunday Age, 7 August 2011
  
  
• Children’s place on the agenda, ABC Radio National, LifeMatters, 8 August 2011
   
• 50/50 parenting, ABC Radio National, Background Briefing, 31 July 2011
   
• Education for at-risk young people, Australian Policy Online, 5 August 2011

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