Australia’s independent online safety regulator received more than 1000 reports of image-based abuse in the first quarter of 2022, compared to just over 600 last year, new figures have revealed. More than 60 per cent of the reports (667) were ...

Victorian schools will have the authority to ban parents who engage in threatening behaviour online or in person, with a possible penalty of up to $10,000 for those who don’t comply. The Victorian Government announced the extended powers last month ...

The educational, social and developmental benefits of digital technology are clear - especially in the midst of a global pandemic, where our devices have become a vital window to the outside world. Despite this, we can’t ignore the risks that ...

The eSafety Commissioner's national campaign, Online Safety Start the Chat, is asking parents, teachers and students across the country to start those important conversations about online safety. The campaign is a response to disturbing research findings that up to 95 ...

Three strikes and bullies are out, if principals say so. That’s one of the tenets of Victorian leader of the opposition Matthew Guy’s answer to school bullying across the state. Guy’s office said the $15.3 million plan – which the ...

A survey of 200 Australian parents reveals what many already think about cyberbullying between kids: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. It's not that they don't care; on the contrary, 80 per cent are concerned about it. It's they don't know how to deal with it, ...

If 'likes' are Instagram’s currency, having none of them can be humiliating. Worse yet, vicious comments, ‘hate’ accounts and sharing and doctoring of people's photos without permission can be damaging at best, and life-threatening at worst. While the latter situation is ...

One in 10 Australian children have experienced online bullying and a quarter of those are being cyber-bullied once every few weeks, according to an expert. Speaking to students at a Sydney high school at the launch of the national BackMeUp campaign on Tuesday, ...