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$825k-a-day fine threat as chatbots expose kids to sex, suicide, terrorism

Four AI companion apps face potential $825,000 daily fines after being caught allowing sexually explicit conversations with minors and promoting self-harm.

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1/10/25. Year 12 Exams - How parents can best support their teens as they complete their year 12 exams. Yr 12 CBC student Travis Cappelluti -17yrs with mum Alison. Picture: Keryn Stevens

How to transform teens’ exam stress into lifelong learning, skills

The CEO of an organisation dedicated to improving the lives and wellbeing of teens shares how to transform the challenge of exams into lifelong learning and skills.

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We've run five years of exam data through AI to find common themes, questions and traps that could give year 12 students an edge.

VCE cheat sheet: Ultimate AI guide to ace your year 12 exams

AI analysis spanning five years of VCE exams reveals the common questions, topics and traps in Victoria’s most popular courses. Here’s the inside info to give year 12s an edge.

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Bully intimidates a skinny kid.

Bullies – stop blaming your upbringing and own your bad choices

Bullying is a choice and perpetrators should take responsibility for their actions instead of blaming their parents, say two professors with some tough love for bullies.

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Surprise benefits of taking ADHD meds revealed by major study

A landmark international study has found common ADHD medication has unexpected benefits for adults. See what the life-changing side-effects are.

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Brisbane’s Mia Bannister, mother of Ollie and founder of Ollie’s Echo, who took his life in January 2024, aged 14. Picture: Supplied

Doing it for Ollie: Mum’s crusade as school bullying hits crisis levels

A mother who lost her only child to suicide has turned her grief into action as new data shows one in four Australian children face bullying.

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Technology & Digital Safety

Marty McFly uses a landline phone in Back to the Future.

Back to the future: Can 1980s tech save kids from social media?

Landline phones are making a comeback as families embrace old technology to help their screen-addicted teens. Now we just need to teach them how that rotating dial works …

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SENIOR/PENSIONER/MATURE/ELDERLY/OVER 65/GRANDPARENT/RETIREE/SUPERANNUATION. Picture: istock Loving senior grandmother hug shoulders of small girl grandchild assist in preparing homework support give advice. Friendly aged woman teacher watching little kid pupil writing maths problem solution

The five-minute maths homework hack this teacher swears by

Mathematics expert and mother-of-four Dr Ange Rogers reveals three simple ways parents can boost their children’s numeracy skills without creating homework stress.

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Anna Gilkison is helping cancer patients, including Masie, finish school and navigate their working options at the Peter Mac cancer hospital. Wednesday, August 6. 2025

‘What about school?’: How one educator is helping teens with cancer

Anna Gilkison’s unique role is helping Victorian teen cancer patients finish school. Here she busts some myths around the common advice they hear and says a diagnosis “doesn’t have to derail everything”.

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1/6/2025: Actress Madeleine West, talks about a new education resource being released to new parents from Project Paradigm, ACCCE and AFP to help them protect their newborns from child sexual abuse, outside the CH10 studios on Mt Coot-Tha, Brisbane. pic: Lyndon Mechielsen/Courier Mail

Madeleine West: Pay parents like me to stay home with the kids

The former Neighbours star has called for a revamp of the childcare subsidy system to allow payments to be made to parents, grandparents and nannies.

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Clinical psychologist Clare Rowe on PlayStation parenting.

Bratty kids? Constant meltdowns? ‘PlayStation Parenting’ is the answer

Educational psychologist Clare Rowe says ‘PlayStation Parenting’ is the key to parents taking back control over their kids – but it’s not what it sounds like.

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Sewell Seltzer took his own life at the urging of an AI chatbot, an American lawsuit alleges.

‘Come home to me’: Teen tragedy triggered by seductive AI chatbot

This teenage boy developed a close bond with his sexy and sympathetic AI chatbot “friend”. And then one day, the chatbot encouraged him to take his own life.

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Lexi Crouch, School

Soulless AI chatbots driving girls down the path to anorexia

‘You’re not dying, you’re improving.’ Schoolgirls are turning to artificial intelligence chatbots for motivation to lose weight – and being given toxic advice verging on sadistic cruelty.

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Dark feminine influencer Kanika Batra. Picture: Instagram @kanikabatra

Sex, money, manipulation: ‘Dark feminine’ icons sell a toxic path to love

You’ve heard of women-hating incels – now meet the ‘femosphere’ flipside, where glamorous influencers amass millions of followers by teaching women to manipulate men for money.

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