00:00Well, the federal government's final report from an anti-bullying review has been handed
00:07down outlining eight key recommendations to help parents and teachers respond to the crisis.
00:13The plan will be backed by $10 million in federal funding to create a national awareness
00:18campaign and new resources for teachers, students and parents.
00:23And for more on this, we're joined now by education professor at the Queensland University
00:27of Technology, Marilyn Campbell.
00:29Marilyn, thank you so much for your time today.
00:32One of the key recommendations here is for schools to act on a bullying complaint within
00:3848 hours.
00:40Just how critical is that sort of immediate response for students?
00:45I think it's excellent for parents and for students, but it could have a difficulty for
00:54teachers.
00:55Teachers, as you know, are incredibly busy and quite time poor and to be able to actually
01:04implement this, it could be difficult, but very desirable.
01:07But for the students, is that sort of quick turnaround helpful to them to feel as though they're being
01:15heard?
01:16I would think so.
01:17I would think so.
01:19I would think that probably it is much better to do that within two minutes rather than two
01:27days.
01:28But of course schools need to actually be able to investigate something that has been reported
01:35reported to them.
01:36But of course, as soon as a student comes to a teacher doing that kind of reporting, then
01:44that report must be built with the teacher very, very quickly.
01:48The student prays for being so brave to come and report that and to know that the teacher
01:54is going to help them straight away.
01:57I think it's probably more about informing parents that that two days would come.
02:03I think it will be immediate for the students.
02:06I want to turn to online bullying, which was mentioned a lot by the education minister this
02:12morning.
02:13He talked about the fact that online bullying is insidious, as he said, and is happening
02:20a lot via social media and messaging outside of school hours, more so than on the playground
02:27these days.
02:28Just how much more difficult does that make it for schools and parents even to intervene?
02:35It's incredibly difficult.
02:37But we have had cyber bullying, as it's been called, for 25 years now.
02:43I saw my first case of cyber bullying actually last century in 1999.
02:49So although the technology keeps changing, that really harmful behaviour has been online for
02:58a long time.
02:59With the banning of mobile phones in most schools in Australia, then that's not possible for,
03:08if the students do not have their mobile phones, for it actually to be done in school.
03:14However, after school is a different problem.
03:18And of course, it's very hard because parents are not actually there on the phone.
03:25But what we have actually found in our research is that most students who are cyber bullied
03:32are actually bullied in the playground or face to face going to and from school as well.
03:38So it's not just people being bullied online.
03:42They're being bullied in all kinds of ways, physically, verbally and relationally, which some people
03:49don't actually understand either, that isolation bullying.
03:53is that the reason for mental health is also getting used to.
03:54It's not just people being bullied in the schools to face or to face.
03:56It's just people being bullied in the schools.
03:57It's just people being bullied in the schools.
03:58And that is when you're committed to the schools, because you're being bullied in the schools,
03:59you're being bullied in the schools.
04:00And you know, you know, you know, you know and you are not only because of an
04:09one in society, that is how you know what you're doing to do.
04:12So you know what I could do between them?
04:13I think that's a to be an easier way to say.
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