Australia's teachers will receive new resources and more training to teach primary school students how to be safe online. The eSafety Commissioner released a suite of self-paced online training package to help primary school kids develop good practices around online ...
More »Reports of image-based abuse more than double in young Australians
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 ...
More »Start the chat about online safety
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 ...
More »Effective cybersecurity requires a school-wide effort
With large quantities of data and sensitive information stored and shared digitally by schools, it’s little wonder they have become targets for hackers. The need to keep sensitive data secure, and protect students while they engage with wireless networks and ...
More »Parents ‘hands off’ with, ‘overwhelmed’ by cyberbullying
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, ...
More »Eight-year-olds ‘making pornography’: #esafety17
'Australia’s foremost cyber safety expert' Susan McLean has some news: the average age at which an Australian child first views pornography is now eight. Disturbing? Yes. Truthful? No. The statistic is "definitely not" supported by research, an academic expert in the ...
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