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The Australian Human Rights Commission is partnering with the Child Health Promotion Research Centre at Edith Cowan University, and marketing communications and public relations company, Primary Communication to develop a campaign designed to help young people take safe and effective action when they witness cyber bullying.

Some of Australia's internet superpowers are combining to fight cyber bullying, in the form of a new cyber-safety committee that will be available for public observation.

Parents frazzled from the summer holidays heaved a sigh of relief as the last of the nation's children returned to school today, their backpacks bristling with recently purchased technology. But new research from Telstra indicates that while most Australian schoolchildren aged 10-17 will now have a mobile phone, and more than half a laptop, not all of them have been warned about cyber security issues by their parents, potentially placing them at risk of cyber-bullying or identity theft.