What is a Parent Network? Across Australia, parents are building networks to support one another, share knowledge, navigate challenges and advocate for change. ARACY’s Parent Networks in Australia report maps the parent network ecosystem and explores how parent networks strengthen family wellbeing, elevate lived experience, and contribute to stronger outcomes for children, families and communities. […]
In 2025 alone, Australian children lost an estimated 800,000 days of early learning due to climate-related closures of early childhood education and care services. Floods, bushfires, storms and extreme heat are already disrupting the services children rely on to learn, grow and thrive, and the impacts are not felt equally. Children in disadvantaged and climate-exposed […]
A call for all changemakers to centre Indigenous Knowledge Systems in systems change, this paper shares insights from cross-cultural work and outlines decolonised approaches that strengthen justice, perspective-taking and impact. From the abstract: The growing interest in using Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) to addresssystems change and champion intergenerational justice in Australia has startedto find ways […]
