Kids at risk: Warning signs every parent needs to look out for
Aussie children are facing a crisis like no other generation, but there are ways parents can help them. It can start by answering these questions.
Let Them Be Kids
Let Them Be Kids is a News Corp Australia campaign calling for children under 16 to be restricted from having social media accounts.
Parents keep having to bury their children – enough is enough
The greed that fuels social media behemoths stands in our way of change – but how many more parents have to bury their children?
100,000 Aussies boycott social media
Thousands, including singer Jessica Mauboy and Olympian Lani Pallister, have logged off in memory of an Aussie who took his own life after he was sextorted online.
‘Out of hand’: Bouris’ terrifying stalker ordeal
One of the nation’s best-known businessman has revealed how a Twitter user went too far, as part of a campaign to encourage Aussies to abstain from social media today.
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The other ‘public health issue’ for our children besides social media
Consent education became mandatory for all schoolchildren in May 2023, now there are calls to also focus on porn literacy with rates of teens accessing explicit material a “public health issue”.
Ahead of the curve: The parents who banned their kids from social media
A couple who have refused to allow their children access to mobile phones and social media for a decade have likened their dangers and risk of addiction to smoking.
Barefoot Investor: ‘This is the hardest thing I’ve ever written’
Scott Pape admits this is the hardest subject he has come across as he urges change across Australia.
Bullies who killed Jess were never punished
Jess Tolhurst could not avoid her tormentors, but because their evil didn’t break social media ‘community standards’, they were never punished over her death.
‘Traumatised, violated’: Overseas sextortion rackets targeting vulnerable kids
Schools are taking out special cyber-bullying insurance, amid alarming revelations that overseas criminals posing as students are targeting Queensland kids for sextortion.
Body of evidence: Social media poisoning teenagers’ self-image
Nearly half of Australian high school children have skipped school due to poor body image and the majority of them report that social media fuelled their insecurity.
Australian girls’ health is tanking – so what’s gone wrong?
We’re at the tipping point
US top doc all aboard on Mali’s social media ban bid
SA’s push to ban children aged under 14 from social media has been bolstered by the United States’ top doctor in a meeting with Premier Peter Malinauskas.
Ban all social media for kids, US lawmakers urge Australia
Key figures behind new social media bans in the US have urged the Australian government to go even further than America has to protect children.
‘Cesspit’: Vile acts our kids are committing alone in their bedrooms
High school students are being raped, choked during sex and blackmailed by classmates for nudes, prompting calls for children to be banned from the “cesspit” of social media until they turn 16.
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