Calling out sexualisation and sexual exploitation of children

September 5-11 is National Child Protection Week. The theme is 'Every child, in every community, needs a fair go'.

Read on to learn more about what we're doing to combat sexual abuse and exploitation of children, and to give children a 'fair go'.

Aired August 18, 2021

Help protect MORE children from pornography!

We’ve had another #WakeUpInstagram campaign win, with Instagram announcing the following new measures to help protect young people from predators:

Age verification is the bare minimum governments can do to protect children from porn

By James Evans*

Collective Shout backs call for expedited age verification system for online porn

Why we’re saying NO to 'Insta for Kids'

*Content warning

Published by Courier Mail - May 17, 2021

Parents have shared their horror stories as more and more young children’s behaviour is impacted by exposure to porn.

We welcome the draft Online Safety Bill with its new measures dealing with cyber-bullying and cyber-abuse, and proposed industry regulation which, if successfully implemented, will make Australia a world leader in online safety legislation. We were pleased to see that many of our concerns were incorporated into this draft.

However, there are several important omissions that we would like to see addressed in this bill.

School holidays are here and there's no better time to review the safeguards you have in place to protect your children from online predators and sexploitation. Here, we give you some handy tips, resources and links to help keep your family safe these holidays.