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Brad and Fiona were just your typical 17 year olds. Brad worked at the local service station and Fiona didn’t work at school. Brad was out to prove his manhood and Fiona was out to prove to her friends that she wasn’t frigid and she could bed a man as well as the best of [...]
Over the past few weeks many of us have watched with concern a snowballing campaign of vilification against Melinda Tankard Reist, her public work as an advocate for women and girls and for society as a whole. Much of this has occurred online using all manner of cyber harrassment perpetrated by trolls and pseudo-experts. Their gutless cyber threats [...]
The Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety tabled its report on the Inquiry into Cyber-Safety entitled High-Wire Act: Cyber-Safety and the Young via Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety - Report.
The Crimes Against Children Research Center conducted two national surveys to develop a better understanding of sexting. The Third Youth Internet Safety Survey was a telephone survey done in 2010 with national sample of 1560 youth Internet users aged 10–17 years and their parents. Almost 10% of youth (mostly girls aged 16–17 years) said they had "appeared [...]
In this video Dr Kathleen Clarke-Pearson comments on how media violence can increase the risk of aggressive behavior in children and adolescents. via AAP 2011: How Media Violence Impacts Children [Video].
The survey of 816 primary and secondary teachers, conducted and analysed by Galaxy Research, also found: 50% of all teachers surveyed have been verbally abused by a parent; 60% five teachers say students do not show them enough respect; 80% of teachers say cyber bullying is a problem at their school, but that students are still largely unaware [...]
A major Herald Sun survey of Victorian teachers found three-quarters believe parents have unreasonable expectations about the school's role in raising kids.And the stresses are showing, with nearly half of teachers surveyed admitting they had considered resigning over the past 12 months. via We've had enough, it's time to raise your own kids, teachers say [...]
The recent Ipsos Social Research Institute Survey of 24 countries found that Australia was a leader in the world of cyberbullying. Not a title to be proud of. We even beat the US, UK and China. Those ahead of us were India, Indonesia, Sweden and Canada. Ispsos director Ryan Williams said “According to parents, Australian [...]
Using social media Web sites is among the most common activity of today's children and adolescents. Any Web site that allows social interaction is considered a social media site, including social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter; gaming sites and virtual worlds such as Club Penguin, Second Life, and the Sims; video sites [...]
Woolies criticised by leading motoring body for offering discounts to entice people to buy more alcohol. via Get a gutful, then a tankful: Woolies under fire for 30c alcohol-fuel discount.
