Launch of LetsStopBullying.gov.au
Guardii Analysis
The Australian Government launched the Let's Stop Bullying campaign in August 2026, responding to the 2025 Anti-Bullying Rapid Review which found that more than one in four students in Years 4 to 9 experienced bullying regularly. The Review investigated the changing nature of bullying and highlighted that reports of cyberbullying have risen by 455 per cent in five years, with over half of young people in Australia reporting they have experienced cyberbullying. A dedicated website, LetsStopBullying.gov.au, now provides free, expert-developed resources for school-aged children, parents and carers.
Where top-down resource provision equips families and educators with information, platform-level intervention changes the equation for the child under attack. Guardii operates as a safety layer on the platforms young Australians actually use, applying AI-driven cyberbullying detection that surfaces harmful conversation patterns in real time and blocks or flags hostile contact before it reaches the target. Because Guardii, a Meta Business Partner backed by Startmate, analyses threat indicators rather than message content, it preserves young people's privacy while ensuring that schools and parents meet the two-day response expectation set by the National Framework. Static resources inform; continuous detection protects.