Symposium program

Welcome to the Symposium
Dr Gary Robinson (Co-convenor), Charles Darwin University

Indigenous Youth Dreams and Aspirations
Ms Josephine Lafaele, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

Children, Media and the Future
Ms Jenny Buckland, Australian Children's Television Foundation

The Role of Leadership in Child Protection: The case for intervention
Mr Mick Gooda, Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health, Darwin

Youth and the Future of Community and Culture
Professor Shirley Brice Heath, La Trobe University, Stanford University and Brown University

Early Childhood and Community: Capacity Building in Early Childhood Networks
Professor Dorothy Scott, University of Melbourne

The Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey: Are there any policy implications?
Professor Sven Silburn, and Professor Stephen Zubrick, Curtin Centre for Developmental Health

What can Longitudinal Studies Tell us About Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing?
Professor Ann Sanson, University of Melbourne

Research and Action: Challenges, moves forward and unfinished tasks
Emeritus Professor Jacqueline Goodnow, Macquarie University

Child Neglect and Abuse Across Cultures
Professor Jill Korbin, Case Western Reserve University, United States of America

Vulnerabilities, Families and Child Development
Dr Gary Robinson, Charles Darwin University

The Child's Place within the Research Consent Process
Dr Susan Danby and Associate Professor Ann Farrell, Queensland University of Technology

Day Care or Early Education? Perspectives on the institutional provision for young children in the UK
Professor Allison James, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

Early Childhood and Prevention: Priorities for the policy response
Mr Robert Griew, Department of Health and Community Services, Northern Territory Government

Social Policy and Early Intervention: Options and evidence
Professor Ilan Katz, University of New South Wales

What Can We Learn From 'Innovative' Childcare Services? Children's services, purposes and practices in the NT
Associate Professor Lyn Fasoli, Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education, and Ms Bonnie Moss, Charles Darwin University

Film: Myths of Childhood (introduced by filmmaker)
Ms Sarah Gibson, University of Technology Sydney

Facilitator: Gary Robinson
Panelists include Isabella Adams, Ann Sanson, Ilan Katz, and respondent, Allison James.

Imagining the World that Warrants our Imagination: Fijian children's ideas about their lives as adults
Professor Christina Toren, Brunel University, United Kingdom

Socialisation and the Shaping of Youth Identity at Docker River
Ms Pauline Fietz, Australian National University

Images of Childhood: By children, about culture and identity
Dr Barbara Piscitelli, Arts and Education Consultant, Brisbane

From Baldwin Spencer's Protection to New Assimilation: Control of half-caste children, 1911-1952
Dr Gordon Briscoe, Australian National University

Snake Dreaming: Stolen Children and the mediation of historical trauma and imagination on screen
Ms Lisa Stefanoff, New York University

Bringing up our Children: Aboriginal families in Victoria
Ms Julie Andrews, La Trobe University

The Artifice of Play
Dr Ute Eickelkamp, Charles Darwin University

Watiya: Images of subjectivity in central Australia
Associate Professor Leon Petchkovsky, University of Queensland

A Longitudinal Study of Language Acquisition in Australian Aboriginal Children in Three Communities
Associate Professor Gillian Wigglesworth, and Ms Samantha Disbray, University of Melbourne