Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women Grants Program
Find out about the Round 2 grant recipients.
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Katherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation
First Nations priority funding project
Project name
Big Rivers Men Preventing Tech-based Abuse: Katherine West Health Board Aboriginal Corporation
Project description
The project aims to reduce tech-based abuse of women by promoting positive, respectful behaviours, as well as increase accountability and leadership, among First Nations men.
The project resources will be co-designed with First Nations men, harnessing their voices and ideas to promote positive behaviours, and aim to address the underlying drivers of tech-based abuse.
Funding
$394,000
Northern Territory
Queensland Remote Aboriginal Media Corporation
First Nations priority funding project
Project name
Our Story. Our Safety. (Queensland Remote Aboriginal Media Corporation)
Project description
This project aims to prevent tech-based abuse of First Nations women in over 120 regional and remote First Nations communities.
The resources will be co-designed with First Nation peoples and aim to build awareness of the nature and impact of tech-based abuse on women and their children, as well as shifting and challenging community, social and cultural norms that contribute to this harm.
Funding
$206,000
Queensland
ACON Health Limited
Project name
Preventing Tech-based Violence of LGBTQ+ People (ACON Health Limited)
Project description
This project aims to improve LGBTQ+ community online safety by building its capacity to respond to and prevent tech-based abuse.
The project will have a particular focus on First Nations LGBTQ+ people, aiming to equip them with the skills and knowledge to avoid tech-based abuse, where to get help, and how to support anyone who’s been impacted.
Funding
$374,000
New South Wales
La Trobe University
Project name
Tech Respect: A national primary prevention intervention to promote respectful behaviour towards transgender women online
Project description
This project aims to promote respectful online interactions with transgender women by developing evidence-informed, community-led primary prevention resources.
The project is a collaboration between La Trobe University’s Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society and the Zoe Belle Gender Collective. The resources will engage and address key drivers, such as transphobia and trans misogyny.
Funding
$374,000
Victoria
Museum of Sticks & Stones
Project name
Accountability and Respect: Tackling the roots of gendered tech-based violence (Museum of Sticks & Stones)
Project description
This project aims to reduce the normalisation of misogynistic ideologies and their harmful impacts on young men aged 15 to 25 years.
The project will be delivered in partnership with the Social Research Centre and aims to understand and address the root causes contributing to the acceptance of online misogyny. It will combine research, community education and co-design with young men to create a documentary series.
Funding
$374,000
Queensland
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Project name
Gendered Norms and Gaming Influencers: Promoting positive and respectful gaming for ‘tween’ boys (The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
Project description
This project aims to address drivers of tech-based abuse on gaming platforms by building the capacity of parents and carers to address harmful gender norms impacting their children.
The project will investigate what gender stereotypes and ideals are promoted by gaming influencers and how they impact ‘tween’ boys, aged 9 to 12 years. It will also identify the key challenges faced by parents navigating harmful gender and gaming influencer content with their children.
Funding
$371,000
Victoria
Jesuit Social Services
Project name
Tech Respect: Understanding and addressing abusive tech-based stalking within dating and intimate partner relationships
Project description
This project aims to disrupt, challenge and reduce tech-based stalking in dating and intimate partner relationships, with a specific focus on 16 to 24-year-old men at risk of perpetration.
The project is a collaboration between Jesuit Social Services, the Australian National University and Sequre Consultants and will aim to address the nature and drivers of this harm. It will include a suite of resources that can be used by educators, parents, carers and other trusted adults.
Funding
$369,000
Victoria
The Kids Research Institute Australia (on behalf of The University of Western Australia)
Project name
Giving Voice to Rural and Regional Boys and Young Men and Supporting Parents to Prevent Tech-based Abuse of Girls and Young Women (The Kids Research Institute Australia on behalf of The University of Western Australia)
Project description
This project aims to equip parents and carers with the skills to explain tech-based abuse of girls and women to boys and young men, including why it’s harmful and what online behaviours are illegal in Australia.
The project resources will be for parents living and working in regional primary industry-based communities in Western Australia and co-designed with boys and young men.
Funding
$369,000
Western Australia
Multicultural Families Organisation Inc
Project name
Stop. Think. Change: Education and prevention of tech-based abuse within multicultural communities (Multicultural Families Organisation Inc)
Project description
This project aims to educate people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds about the serious impacts of tech-based abuse on victims to persuade potential perpetrators not to engage in this harmful behaviour.
The project will take a cross-community approach that includes educational workshops, multi-language resources, a social media campaign and co-designed resources for parents.
Funding
$355,000
Queensland
The Flagstaff Group
Project name
Log On: Play it right (The Flagstaff Group)
Project description
This project aims to foster a broader cultural shift toward positive, respectful online interactions in accessible formats for women with disability.
The project aims to up-skill women with disability to recognise and respond to tech-based abuse through engaging and inclusive offline games, as well as raise awareness of the serious risks these women face online. The project also aims to create a scalable and sustainable capacity-building model that can be implemented by other organisations supporting this at-risk cohort.
Funding
$314,000
New South Wales
Last updated: 19/08/2025