Supporting children in the digital age
(World News Science)

The impact of digital technology on Australian children will be investigated in a world-first study funded by the Morrison Government. The Morrison Government is providing $34.9 million to establish a research centre that will conduct a world-first longitudinal study of the digital lives of Australian children from birth to eight years of age. Minister for Education Dan Tehan today announced the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child would be led by Professor Susan Danby and based at the Queensland University of Technology. `Our children are growing up with unprecedented access to technology and we need to better understand the effect it is having on them,` Mr Tehan said. `This new...