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On Monday 20 June 2011, 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.

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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 19 chapters and 5 appendices.

High-Wire Act: Cyber-Safety and the Young

Preliminary pages (PDF 196KB)
Contents, Foreword, Committee Membership, Terms of Reference, List of Abbreviations and List of Recommendations

Chapter 1 (PDF 350KB)
Introduction

Chapter 2 (PDF 217KB)
Young people in the online environment

Chapter 3 (PDF 574KB)
Cyber-bullying

Chapter 4 (PDF 328KB)
Cyber-stalking, online grooming and sexting

Chapter 5 (PDF 318KB)
Breaches of privacy and identity theft

Chapter 6 (PDF 125KB)
Other significant cyber-safety complexities

Chapter 7 (PDF 579KB)
The decision to post

Chapter 8 (PDF 191KB)
Schools

Chapter 9 (PDF 128KB)
Teachers

Chapter 10 (PDF 316KB)
Whole-of-school community

Chapter 11 (PDF 270KB)
Legislative basis

Chapter 12 (PDF 142KB)
Policing

Chapter 13 (PDF 175KB)
An online ombudsman?

Chapter 14 (PDF 265KB)
Australian responses to cyber-safety issues

Chapter 15 (PDF 124KB)
International Responses to Cyber-Threats

Chapter 16 (PDF 127KB)
New technologies

Chapter 17 (PDF 98KB)
Proposal for a mandatory filtering system

Chapter 18 (PDF 331KB)
Input from young people

Chapter 19 (PDF 230KB)
Conclusions

Appendix A (PDF 47KB)
List of submissions

Appendix B (PDF 56KB)
List of exhibits

Appendix C (PDF 49KB)
List of witnesses and public hearings

Appendix D (PDF 166KB)
Survey Methodology

Appendix E (PDF 174KB)
Online Offences

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