Jennifer Anne Fraser

Associate Professor | RN | Paediatric Nursing | Safeguarding Children and Young People Research

[ISPCAN @ISPCAN]

Abstract Submissions Now Open! Join us next year in beautiful Melbourne for the ISPCAN 2026 Congress — a global gathering of professionals and advocates dedicated to child protection and wellbeing.

Share your work. Connect with experts. Inspire change. 💙

📅 Event: ISPCAN 2026 | Melbourne, 🇦🇺 🌏

Submit your abstract: https://t.co/Ky3XMaczjz

Together, let’s shape a safer, brighter future for every child. 💫
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My research is available on @ResearchGate: https://t.co/gH3L5ug7Vr

[Jennifer Anne Fraser @Jenniferannehol]

My research is available on @ResearchGate: https://t.co/gH3L5ug7Vr

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@JillannFarmer @UQ_News @RACGP @medManagerRACMA Congrats Jillann. Wonderful to have your amazing contribution acknowledged this way

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Latest issue of Child Abuse and Neglect :The International Journal available online

[Ann Bonner @AnnBonnerProf]

A helpful summary for PhD students and supervisors @GriffithNursing @cdnm @MelissaJBloomer

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@AndreaMcClough1 @ProfBrendan @Sydney_Uni @MoiraDunsmore @DrToniaCrawfor1 @JayBalante @JBloom2105 So inspiring to listen to the presentations this afternoon. Thankyou @JBloom2105
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[Andrea McCloughen @AndreaMcClough1]

Lots of activity to read about in the latest newsletter from #SydneyNursingSchool @DrToniaCrawfor1 @MoiraDunsmore @JayBalante @_Jenn_fraser @Horaswong

[ISPCAN @ISPCAN]

Opening Ceremonies for the ISPCAN Sweden 🇸🇪 2024 Congress. Moderator Laura Korhonen. Opening remarks by ISPCAN Board President Kevin Lalor & ISPCAN CEO Pragathi Tummala. Music 🎵 by Uppsala Children’s Choir. Welcome from Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden. Welcome from State Secretary Minna Ljunggren, State Secretary to the Minister of Social Sevices Camilla Waltersson Gronvall. Keynoters: Aili Keskitalo and Philip D. Jaffé Moderated by ISPCAN Board Members John D Fluke and Gabriel Otterman. Thank you Barnafrid 900 Delegates from 75 countries. 3 days of working together, sharing knowledge, collaborating, learning and connecting. Working towards the same goal: eliminating the abuse and neglect of children around the world. Let’s get to work! #riseuptoendchildabuse #ispcan #barnafrid #workingtogether #protectingchildrenintimesofcrisis

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#acwa2024 @CashmoreJudy @DrChrisWekerle @TracieAfifi @ISPCAN @ISPCAN_ARC
Excited to launch the Special Issue of Child Abuse and Neglect “Pathways of Care:Longitudinal study of children in care in Australia”

https://t.co/01d0CnOY6v

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

Am I reading with my baby too soon?

(Spoiler alert: No. Never.)

A parent recently reached out with this very question, noting that her infant often seems more focused on her during reading time than on the books themselves. Perhaps she was just introducing them too early?

In reality, it’s never too early.

But it’s also important to realize that, in the earliest months of life, the goal of reading isn’t about your child attending to the text - or even to the illustrations.

Reading with your infant is a social activity.

It is an opportunity for bonding.

It’s an opportunity to expose your little one to rich and varied vocabulary.

If your baby spends the whole time looking at you, that’s just fine. In fact, it’s beneficial.

As you read, your baby is attuned to the way your mouth is making all these amazing sounds.

Watch this little one closely.

Her eyes rarely leave big brother’s face. I can’t say with certainty that she even glances at the book itself.

But we’d be hard pressed to suggest she isn’t eating the experience up!

She knows from repeated readings that this particular book (“Moo, Baa, La-la-la!” by
@SandyBoynton - who is, BTW, the patron saint of board books) is filled with new and unusual sounds - which she anticipates (and delights in) on every page.

In time she’ll begin attuning to the book. To how its pages work. To its colorful illustrations. And eventually to the strange marks on the page that seem to hold meaning.

But for now, savoring the experience with her brother is plenty. And hugely beneficial to her developing brain.

It’s never too early.

This literate brother-sister duo was shared to TT by nguyetanhbuu.

[Sue Dean @suedeandean]

Well said. Unimaginable. Those comments from the health exec. are very concerning.

[Jennifer Anne Fraser @Jenniferannehol]

@MFWitches And the FC continues to NOT listen to women

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

It’s very important to honour the dead, and speak the names of victims: particularly women and children who are so often erased from narratives. In this case, those victims are murder victim 2-year-old Rowan and his bereaved mother, Sophie Roome.

But it’s also crucially important to look at the faces of killers.

Why?

Because we need men to see that these are “real men”.

They’re not scary (or at least, not to other men and most other people outside their homes).

They’re not angry all the time.

They’re not necessarily even noticeable as misogynists or abusers or violent.

This one is James Harrison, and he murdered his beautiful baby son, then himself.

We can’t know why he did it, but we do know most men who murder their own children do so to punish their ex-partner. Often when that ex-partner has re-partnered or otherwise moved outside their ownership.

“If I can’t have you and our children, nobody will” is their mindset.

Every time they murder, others say what a “great bloke” and (in this case) a “proud dad” they were, and what a wonderful workmate, brother, son or friend.

It’s crucial to really see who they are. Someone who is no danger except to the people they’re meant to love, because they see those people as their possessions. As objects. As something to control and exert power over, not to love and respect.

James Harrison. James Harrison. James the bicycle enthusiast. James the admired colleague. James the health executive. James the upstanding citizen. Or James the manipulative arsehole? James the terminally despicable creep? James the horrendous, psychopathic monster?

Such an ordinary, no-fuss name for such a terrible person.

The kind of person who looked his own son in the eyes, then killed him. The kind of person who knew what that murder would do to Rowan’s mother and the rest of Rowan’s family and community, and did it anyway.

Remember the victims, but remember James Harrison, too. And never forget that there are dozens of people (who are mostly men) still walking around right now contemplating this kind of crime. Thinking about killing their partner, or children, or both. A few will go ahead and do it: most won’t.

But they’re nearly all walking among us, disguised by their ordinariness and “good bloke” status.

Until they kill.

[Jennifer Anne Fraser @Jenniferannehol]

👀 Sydney Nursing School is seeking a Senior Lecturer in Nursing with expertise in Paediatrics/Child & Adolescent Health. If you're looking to make an impact in teaching, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. Check out the link below to apply! https://t.co/VAIZv9Niql

[6 News Australia @6NewsAU]

🚨 Justice Lee: "Having escaped the lion's den, Bruce Lehrmann made the mistake of coming back for his hat" | #6NewsAU

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@MFWitches @fedcourtau Omnishambles!

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@taneal_wiseman No excuse for that - amazing insight to her ability to turn a terrible experience into an opportunity to learn and share - Apple didn’t fall far Taneal

[SigmaOceania @SigmaOceania]

Congratulations to Oceania Region Inductees to the Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame Prof Marilyn Cruickshank, Prof Marion Eckert and Prof Robyn Gallagher @utsSoNM @unisaresearch @syd_health @RobynDGallagher @marioneckert5 @Mcruickshank9 https://t.co/q52NYeQuEZ