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Some 30 years ago, Australia introduced the Children's Television Standards (CTS) with the twin goals of providing children with high-quality local programs and offering some protection from the perceived harms of television. The most recent review of the CTS occurred in the context of a decade of increasing international concern at rising levels of overweight and obesity, especially in very young children.Overlapping regulatory jurisdictions and co-regulatory frameworks complicate the process of addressing pressing issues of child health, while rapid changes to the media ecology have both extended the amount of programming for children and increased the economic challenges for producers. Our article begins with an overview of the conceptual shifts in priorities articulated in the CTS over time.Using the 2007-09 Review of the CTS as a case study, it then examines the role of research and stakeholder discourses in the CTS review process and critiques the effectiveness of existing regulatory regimes, both in providing access to dedicated children's content and in addressing the problem of escalating obesity levels in the population. Leonie Rutherford is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Creative Arts, DeakinUniversity. She is currently engaged in an ARC Linkage Grant funded project to evaluate the emergence of digital literacies in very young children, and a Deakin Central Research Grant-funded project examining the inception of ABC3, in the context of economic, technological and regulatory changes in Australia.Dean Biron is a Brisbane-based scholar. His major areas of research interest are child safety and protection, cultural criticism and aesthetics, philosophies of contemporary music and Australian film studies.Helen Skouteris is an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology in the School of Psychology, Deakin University. Since 2008, her research interests have focused predominantly on the prevention of childhood obesity, and maternal health and well-being during pregnancy and the postpartum, including prevention of excessive gestational weight gain.

The study suggests that the period between assault and onset of symptoms in infant abusive head trauma is brief, particularly in cases of an acute deterioration where proximate medical intervention is required. In those cases with sufficient evidence of the victim's condition post-injury, the symptoms presented without delay.

The 2005 edition of Hoffman and Ferstler's Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound includesthe following 60-word entry on the record sleeve:The jacket or envelope used for protecting, storing or marketing a disc recording; also known as a slipcase or a record cover. Usually the material is paper or cardboard. Often there is a second envelope inside the sleeve, made of paper or mylar, intended to give the surface additional protection. Sleeves may do more harm than good to their records, however. ' (2005: 1001) The reader is then directed to a 6 page entry titled 'Preservation of Sound Recordings,' where information is provided on the proper storing and maintenance of phonographic records, magnetic tape and compact discs. Apart from an allowance for marketing practices, here the album sleeve or liner is considered little more than a carriage device-one of dubious function-for the primary product contained within. Yet without needing to deny that the fundamental purpose of an LP record or compact disc is to store music, it is nevertheless true that the accompanying sleeve or (in the case of the CD) booklet has, over the course of the past few decades, developed something of an aura of its own.Originally, record sleeves were blank with a doughnut-like hole in the middle through which the central label of the vinyl could be read. This typically contained crucial information for the purchaser, namely the title of the disc and details of the recording artist and publisher. Over time, however, as shellac-based 78 rpm records were Biron Writing and Music PORTAL, vol. 8, no. 1, January 2011.