2020
Putting children first: Building back better
Address to the NAPCAN webinar for National Child Protection Week
Dr Brian Babington, 11 September 2020
2019
Families Australia: 2018-19 in review
Address to the Families Australia Annual General Meeting, Canberra
21 October 2019
Improving wellbeing and safety outcomes for families and children beyond 2020
Address at the Families Australia Child Aware Conference, Brisbane
17 May 2019
Taking time for family: National Families Week 2019
National Families Week Address, Department of Social Services, Canberra
14 May 2019
Envisioning the way forward for national child safety and family wellbeing policy
Address at the launch of the Fourth Action Plan (2018-2020) of the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020, Darwin
Dr Brian Babington, 30 January 2019
2018
The changing nature of work and implications for families
Address to the Families Australia National Policy Forum
Dr Brian Babington, 29 October 2018
Advancing social policy through collaborative practice
Address to the Early Learning and Care Council of Australia AGM, Sydney
Dr Brian Babington, 14 September 2018
Child safety and wellbeing in Australia: Toward a bolder plan
Presentation to the National Forum on Protecting Australia’s Children, Sydney
Dr Brian Babington, 30 August 2018
National policy on child safety and wellbeing: Latest developments and future directions
Address to the ACWA Conference, Sydney
Dr Brian Babington, 20 August 2018
Families: the heart of our society
National Families Week Address, Department of Social Services, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 16 May 2018
Our collective national challenge
Address to the National Coalition on Child Safety and Wellbeing, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 29 March 2018
2017
Never doubting the impact of the few
Address to the Families Australia Annual General Meeting, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 30 October 2017
Going further by travelling together
Address to the 7th SNAICC National Conference, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 13 September 2017
Stronger families, stronger communities: National Families Week 2017
National Families Week address, Department of Social Services, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 17 May 2017
Protecting and valuing children: what would success look like and how does that relate to policy development?
Joint presentation to the 2017 Child Aware Approaches Conference
Dr Brian Babington and Professor Daryl Higgins, 15 May 2017
Child safety & wellbeing: latest national developments and next steps
Families Australia national forums on the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020
Sydney, Hobart, Melbourne, Brisbane
Dr Brian Babington, March 2017
2016
National campaign on child safety and wellbeing: progress and next steps
Address to the FRSA National Conference 2016, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 1 December 2016
Families Australia: today and tomorrow
Address to the Families Australia Annual General Meeting, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 7 November 2016
On lifelong learning and family: the lady who wrote history essays
Convocation address to the Central Queensland University Graduation Ceremony, Sydney
Dr Brian Babington, 15 September 2016
National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children: Progress, directions and challenges
Address to the ACWA Conference, Sydney
Dr Brian Babington, 15 August 2016
Promoting child welfare and rights: challenges and ways forward – Indonesia and Australia
Address to Save the Children’s ‘Families First Learning Event’, Jakarta
Dr Brian Babington, 27 July 2016
Towards a more Child Aware nation
Address to the Child-Safe, Child-Friendly Conference, Bathurst NSW
Dr Brian Babington, 28 June 2016
Envisioning a better future
Address to the Child-Safe, Child-Friendly Conference, Bathurst NSW
Dr Brian Babington, 28 June 2016
Making child safety and wellbeing everyone’s business
Address to the Child Aware Approaches Conference, Brisbane
Dr Brian Babington, 24 May 2016
Supporting change for the better
National Families Week address to the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 20 May 2016
Bouquets and brickbats: on the work of peak family-related organisations
Address to the Families ACT 10th anniversary celebrations, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 10 May 2016
Towards a brighter future for child safety and wellbeing. How? When?
Address to Building Stronger Australian Families policy forum, Sydney
Dr Brian Babington, 2 May 2016
Building Stronger Australian Families
Policy forum address to the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, Canberra
Dr Brian Babington, 11 April 2016
National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020: latest developments
Address to Building Stronger Australian Families policy forum, Melbourne
Dr Brian Babington, 29 February 2016
Children’s institutions in the global south: overcoming barriers to deinstitutionalisation
Address to Save the Children, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Dr Brian Babington, 23 February 2016
Babington, BK (2017), Taking stock and moving ahead. Families Australia, Canberra.
—— (2016), ‘Foreword’, No child should grow up like this: Identifying long term outcomes of Forgotten Australians, Child Migrants and the Stolen Generations. University of New South Wales, Australia.
—— (2016), ‘What road ahead? Directions and challenges for the National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children 2009-2020′. Developing Practice: The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal. Issue 44 (April 2016)
—— (2015), For the benefit of children alone?
—— (2013), ‘Vision splendid or desert mirage? The National Framework for Protecting Australia’s Children’. Communities, Children and Families Australia, Vol. 7 Issue 1 (Dec 2013).
—— & Bessell, S. (2012), ‘Our kids deserve a champion’. The Sydney Morning Herald, 1 May 2012
—— (2011) ‘National framework for protecting Australia’s children: perspectives on progress and challenges’, Family Matters, No. 89
—— (2010) ‘A lantern on the stern: drawing inference from the way we protect children’, Communities, Children and Families Australia, Vol. 5 Issue 1 (May 2010).
—— (2008) ‘Anticipating 2009: The year the nation joins forces on child protection’, Developing Practice: The Child, Youth and Family Work Journal, Issue 22 (Summer 2008).
—— (2008) ‘An examination of multi-jurisdictional child protection systems in the UK, Ireland, Canada and the USA’. Report to The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust of Australia
—— (2008) ‘At last, an acknowledgement of child-abuse crisis’, The Canberra Times, 27 May 2008
—— (2007) ‘Family wellbeing’. ABC Radio National interview (21 June 2007)