News

• Latest Ask The Children: Children and young people speak about health
  20 Jun 2007
  In the latest Ask the Children, Children and Young People Speak About Health, kids tells us what health means to them.

• 'Great Exploitations' of kids now showing on TV
  02 Jun 2007
  The NSW Commission for Children and Young People, the NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity and Young Media Australia have joined together to express strong concern about the use of young people for reality style television programs, such as Teen Fit Camp, which was broadcast nationally last night.

• Have your say on the media and HIV
  23 May 2007
  Young people aged 18 to 28 are invited to participate in a university study on the role of the media in education of young people about HIV/AIDS.

• New principles to protect kids at work
  22 May 2007
  The NSW Commission for Children and Young People has welcomed today’s ruling by the Industrial Relations Commission that provides a clear guideline for fair treatment of the State’s 150,000 children engaged in formal employment.

• Drug and alcohol abuse and families just don't mix
  21 May 2007
  The NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, Ms Gillian Calvert has endorsed a report released today by the Australian National Council on Drugs.

• Port Stephens hears 'young' advice on built environments
  15 May 2007
  The future development of the Port Stephens local government area needs to be influenced by kids’ views in the planning and design process or they will become increasingly alienated from their own community, the NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People Gillian Calvert said today.

• Kids Commission on show!
  05 Apr 2007
  The NSW Commission for Children and Young People is a proud sponsor of a new Youth Stage at this year’s Royal Easter Show, a venue for live performances each afternoon from 6 - 18 April.

• Have your say on privacy laws
  08 Mar 2007
  As part of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) Inquiry into Australia's privacy laws, the ALRC is particularly keen to hear from young people about their views and expectations of privacy.

• New laws to better protect children from 'dangerous' adults
  02 Jan 2007
  The NSW Commissioner for Children and Young People, Ms Gillian Calvert, has welcomed the introduction of new laws that further strengthen the Working With Children Check system that come into effect today.

• Kids house-fire deaths - NSW laws on right track
  01 Nov 2006
  Child Death Review Team Annual Report released.