By Joanna Panagopoulos - May 28, 2025

Boys sell porn made from girls' stolen school photos - MTR quoted in The Australian

Collective Shout in the News

We've rounded up some of the top media coverage of our campaign urging Melbourne's Yarra City Council to remove a gigantic fetish-porn themed street mural depicting a woman, bound and gagged. Since we launched the campaign, more than 1500 supporters contacted the Council.

The mural - painted on commission at a Cecil Street photography studio - was partly covered by a graffiti tag. The Council fined the property owner and/or occupant for displaying the mural without a permit. The Council is also reviewing its public art policies to prevent similar incidents.

Our campaign and related petition calling on gaming platform Steam to remove rape-simulation game 'No Mercy' is gaining traction - and attracting global media attention. We've rounded up some highights here.

Over 155,000 petition supporters - click here to add your name!

Our change.org petition headed up by trauma counsellor and campaigner Renee Chopping has attracted global media attention. The petition calls on streaming platform Spotify and CEO Daniel Ek to remove sex trafficking coach Andrew Tate's content promoting abuse and sexual exploitation of women. Here are some highlights.

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Our new report on the Sexual Harassment of Teachers (SHot) has attracted national media attention. We've rounded up the highlights here:

It’s been a big month for us here at Collective Shout! Our message has attracted a lot of mainstream media attention. From the harms of porn and porn-themed ads, the exploitation of girls on Instagram, and the campaign to raise the age for social media access, our voice is being heard.

“There are many parents who know exactly what's going on and they willfully turn a blind eye."

Last week, our very own campaigner Lyn Swanson Kennedy was featured on an episode of ABC’s Four Corners, Kidfluencers.

(Four Corners: Keana Naughton)

Age assurance technology could help enforce raising the age of social media access from 13 to 16

Collective Shout movement director Melinda Tankard Reist, who has been campaigning the Australian government to implement age verification for years to stop children being exposed to pornography, said while the technology was still evolving, the $6.5m trial should be commenced without delay.

For more than 10 years we have been campaigning for politicians to take serious action regarding young people's exposure to pornography. We had a big win recently with the Federal Government finally committing to an age verification trial. 

In the lead up to the Government's announcement our Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist was interviewed on ABC Radio to discuss the links between porn and violence against women and the impact this is having on young people. Listen here.