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 ...

Brendan James Murray is haunted. Well, to be grammatically correct, his school is haunted, but Brendan is tormented by the ghosts that wander the halls. The ghosts of children with unfulfilled potential, ghosts of others who couldn't be reached and ...

A school in the UK is making headlines after it replaced break time games with supervised activities in a bid to address a bullying problem at the school. Instead of playing self-run games and sports at break times, students at ...

Bullying hurts children more if it comes from a friend, and they're less likely to report it, says a new study. Flinders University researchers found that victims identify the pain of relational bullying from best friends as being especially harmful ...

A recent study by Dr Lesley-Anne Ey of UniSA and Professor Marilyn Campbell of the Queensland University of Technology revealed that only a fraction of parents can accurately describe what bullying is. As part of the study titled ‘Do Parents ...

A new study using data from 223 student surveys across 24 Australian schools has found that school interventions did not help to resolve severe cases of bullying and group bullying. UniSA’s Professor Ken Rigby found that school interventions “reduced or ...

Having been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, Samwise Holmes's high school years were characterised by relentless bullying, constant feelings of isolation and even having his head flushed down a toilet. But being subjected to such extensive and cruel bullying didn't defeat ...

Two separate incidents of anti-Semitic bullying within Victorian schools have sent deep tremors of disturbance through the education system and wider community. In one case, under threat of violence, a Year 7 student at Cheltenham Secondary College was made to ...

John Marsden is best known for his top-selling Tomorrow When the War Began YA series, in which a group of young people find themselves suddenly in a war zone without the protections of the adults or institutions they've relied upon ...