SHINE for Kids on SBS News and Sunday Telegraph
SHINE for Kids CEO Julie Hourigan was on SBS News with Associate Professor Catherine Flynn and Vacro CEO Marius Smith on Sunday, the 28th of May, to discuss the distressing findings from […]
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Systems must do much better at caring for children in greatest need: SHINE’s CEO in Croakey
“This number of children could fill a stadium, and yet we as a society treat them like they barely exist. There is no government department to represent them. There is no Minister […]
Overlooked and disadvantaged: Report reveals concerning picture for 40,000 children in Australia with a parent in prison
MEDIA RELEASE 28 May 2023 Child advocacy group, SHINE for Kids, has released distressing findings of a national survey which reveals the suffering and compounding disadvantage experienced by the voiceless victims of […]
There’s a better solution: SHINE’s CEO on youth crime in Qld
Our CEO Julie Hourigan’s recent editorials in the Gold Coast Bulletin and North West Star about youth crime and what works when breaking cycles of intergenerational incarceration. Section from the editorial: A […]
SHINE for Kids’ CEO in The Cairns Post
Our work in juvenile justice is featured in this story in The Cairns Post. Extract from the article: Ms Hourigan said $190,000 a year could fund one full-time youth worker to work […]
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