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A Melbourne business marketing 'make-up parties' to girls as young as four has been slammed for sexualising children. The business offers to 'makeover' children with blush, eye liner, eye shadow and nail-paint. Kids Free 2B Kids founder and Generation Next speaker Julie Gale described the business as harming to children. "Parents need to wake up. [...]
The Australian government has ignored a senate proposal for stricter advertising and classification laws for sexualised music videos and ads aimed at children. The proposal came from a senate committee investigating the sexualisation of children in the media, who concluded that "the inappropriate sexualisation of children in Australia is of increasing concern." On Friday the [...]
Psychologist and author Steve Biddulph has slammed the early sexualisation of children, blaming the early exposure of children to sexualised material for the decline in the age of children becoming sexually active. He explains, "the maturity of children has grown in superficial ways - looking, acting and speaking like adults. But the deeper signs are [...]
Following a failed stunt with a lie detector on 2DayFM in which a 14-year-old girl revealed she had been raped, a group of 15 public figures have signed a press release calling for the program to be axed. The group, including psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg and Kids Free 2B Kids director Julie Gale, heavily criticised the [...]
Julie Gale has slammed a line of baby clothes with provocative slogans sold by national retailer Cotton On, calling for the the garments be withdrawn. Ms Gale said that even as a comedy writer she found the use of babies as a billboard of sexual innuendo unacceptable. She later went on to describe the early [...]
Two conferences are being organised by Julie Gale in the coming weeks: Bratz, Britney and Bralettes: The Sexualisation of Childhood Monday 3rd August, 2009 7:00pm for 7:30pm to 9.30pm Melbourne Girls Grammar School, South Yarra. ”From tiny tots to late teens, girls are being preyed on, and damaged, by sexualisation and media messages about weight, [...]
