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Before eSafety completes its Age Verification Roadmap for online pornography, it is worth reflecting the principles guiding its development.

A matter of principle: guiding the Age Verification Roadmap

eSafety asked the world’s biggest technology companies to reveal what they are – and are not – doing to tackle child sexual abuse.

Compelling safety disclosures from the world's biggest tech firms

Why virtual reality headsets, haptic gloves and metaverse environments should be on every parent's watchlist before they go on the gift list.

Knowing your AR, VR and MR: Today’s tech and what it means for parents

To support 16 Days of Activism against gender-based violence, we’re calling on Australians of all ages and backgrounds to help us.

Domestic violence

Gender-based online abuse: 6 things you can do to prevent it this 16 Days

Cyberbullying

Kids

Strength in numbers to stop cyberbullying

Evidence shows cyberbullying is increasing, and fortifying families against the harm it can cause should be one of our highest priorities.

Another year of fighting the threats we know and preparing well for the ones we know are coming.

Tackling individual harms and systemic reform in 2021-22

New research released shows just how much we still have to learn when it comes to understanding how online harms affect the most targeted groups.

Our most at risk believe they must endure the harms

Platforms themselves must join the community developing online protections, the same way our scientific community developed vaccines.

The online world needs a 'vaccine' of its own

The metaverse offers the potential for enormous good alongside great harm. It all depends on the architecture we create to enable and govern it.

Will the peril outweigh the promise of the Metaverse?

Parents and educators can help arm young people against online challenges that show participants being harmed or humiliated.

Dangerous or damaging online challenges are never funny

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve experienced a veritable tsunami of child sexual exploitation material washing across the internet.

Shadow pandemic of child sexual exploitation requires concerted global effort

eSafety's latest research shows 1 in 3 women were abuse online in a work context.

International Women’s Day: Break the bias on online abuse

This year we mark 18 years of this global event that started as a European Union initiative in 2004 and is now celebrated on 8 February annually across the world.

Join us in celebrating Safer Internet Day

During the pandemic eSafety has reached new heights when it comes to the removal of online images and videos of child exploitation.

Global project combating online child abuse marks five years

eSafety is elevating women’s voices to encourage safer online interactions during 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.

Domestic violence

Women should be heard and safe both online and offline

The Commissioner gave a speech to the Australian Cyber Conference on the agency's new regulatory priorities under the Online Safety Act.

Charting a new course for a safer online world

The Commissioner provided a keynote speech for the G7 Safety Tech Summit about how Safety by Design can intersect with safety technology.

The tech industry’s 'seatbelt moment' is fast approaching

For children and young people it is easy to accidentally - or deliberately - encounter age-inappropriate content.

Squid Game shows the need to check what your child is watching

Read an abridged version of the foreword

eSafety’s annual report - a year in review

eSafety’s new legislation and defamation laws serve different purposes

What’s the difference between serious online abuse and defamation?

eSafety teaches children how to recognise online predators

National Child Protection Week 2021

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Diverse groups

Protecting voices at risk online – a year in review

We have taken solid steps to ensure that those individuals and communities most at risk of online hate are empowered and not silenced.

For too long big tech companies have been given a free pass allowing them to benefit their bottom line rather than the safety of users.

Online Safety Act reforms

Watch Australia and Fiji's Online Safety Commissioners share their experiences leading two of world’s first online safety commissions.

In conversation: Australia and Fiji work together to tackle online harms

The eSafety Commissioner discusses how online hate can translate into real world harm during a Parliamentary Joint Committee hearing.

Online extremist movements and radicalism in Australia

Domestic violence

The eSafety Commissioner calls for technology-facilitated abuse to be addressed by the NSW Joint Select Committee on Coercive Control.

Calling out technological tethers in coercive control

Governments, regulators, digital companies and advocates need to ensure innovation and investment genuinely have the best interests of children at heart.

Kids

UNCRC General Comment: Children’s rights in the digital world

If your child is being cyberbullied you may want to rush in to help them. But beware! Follow these tips so you don't make the situation worse.

Cyberbullying

Want to confront your child's cyberbully? Think before you act!

It's important to get your child into the habit of asking for help when they are using digital devices, so they come to you when they face safety risks.

How to support your child to play confidently online

The back-to-school period is a great time to review your child’s online safety.

Back-to-school: top tips for parents

Image-based abuse

We discuss what can go wrong when Australians attempt to make money from their intimate content and how eSafety may be able to help.

The risky business of making money from nudes and other intimate content

After decades working across online privacy, security and safety, the eSafety Commissioner has never been more fearful for children online.

Protection of children should always trump protection of privacy

Our kids need to use good judgement and critical thinking to keep them safe online, sort fact from fiction and combat misinformation.

Online reasoning skills for kids are critical

The rise in Australians working, studying and socialising online due to COVID-19 has brought unanticipated challenges for eSafety in 2019-20.

Another big year keeping Australians safer online