Bullying in Australian workplaces is a problem – a 2015 report from Safe Work Australia (SWA) found 9.4 per cent of its respondents had been bullied in their workplaces in the past six months. This was an increase from seven ...

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2022 report Australia’s Children says 70 per cent of children aged 12–13 experience at least one bullying-like behaviour a year, and almost half of those students (46 per cent) go on to ...

Unfortunately, bullying and school-related mental stress in its various forms are considered commonplace in our society. Despite current rhetoric around social media and its links to wellbeing and social exclusion, it is not the root cause for most. Mental stress ...

Reports of violence, bullying, and drug taking in South Australian schools have risen to over 10,000 last year. Incidents of violence in school spiked by over 550 to 2915 last year with increasing reports of verbal abuse, intruders on campus, ...

The state of Victoria must apologise and pay over $435,000 in compensation for failing to protect five Jewish students from anti-Semitic bullying at a Melbourne state school. The case was brought by former Brighton Secondary College (BSC) students Joel and ...

A new approach to bullying focussing on building an "anti-bullying climate" in classrooms could reduce peer pressure at school, education experts have said. For the past decades, youth bullying rates have increased exponentially; in 2009, 27 per cent of year ...

Australia’s teachers need to do more to protect their LGBTIQA+ students from bullying and harassment, new research says. Researchers from the University of South Australia asked over 400 teachers about how they chose to intervene in bullying incidents against sexually ...

A teenager from regional NSW who was bullied with homophobic taunts has been found not guilty of conspiring to murder his schoolmates after a judge found his disturbing diary entries were merely a window into his torment. The teenager, who ...

The NSW government has held its first anti-bullying roundtable to improve schools’ response to youth mental health needs and antisocial behaviour. Led by Education Minister Sarah Mitchell, the meeting was the first of an ongoing series that aims to tackle ...

Literature in the field informs that bullying is a destructive social behaviour, which has both immediate and long-term negative consequences on the brain and the body. Research undertaken by Ken Purnell, and also that of Pieter Rossouw (citing Margaret Semrud-Clikeman ...