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Professor Freda Briggs AO, formerly a teacher and child protection police officer and social worker, is Emeritus Professor of Child Development at the University of South Australia, lecturing and researching in child and family-related issues.

She is also the author of: From Victim to Offender; Why my Child?; Developing Personal Safety Skills in Children with Disabilities; Keep Children Safe; and Child Sexual Abuse: Confronting the Problem. In addition she is first author of Teaching Children to Protect Themselves; The Early Years of School: Teaching and Learning; Teaching in the First Three Years of School; Children and Families: Australian Perspectives; and Smart Parenting for Safer Kids and Child Protection – A guide for teachers and childcare professionals. Russell Hawkins, Professor of Psychology at James Cook University, Queensland, is co-researcher and author of the chapter, “Emotional Abuse”.

Professor Briggs received the Order of Australia (2005), the Inaugural Australian Humanitarian Award, the Centenary Medal, a Rotary International Award and numerous other awards and was Senior Australian of the Year (2000) for her pioneering work in protecting children.