00:02A tirade of abuse on a bus ride home.
00:05The 13-year-old schoolgirl defends herself.
00:08According to Jenna, it all started when she spotted the man filming another girl on the bus.
00:14I told the girl, excuse me, the man in front of me is like recording you.
00:19He got really mad.
00:20That must have been scary in that moment. How did it make you feel?
00:24It felt really... disgusting.
00:28I'm very, very proud of her. Tough cookie.
00:32In three years, reported Islamophobic attacks in Australia
00:36have risen from an average of two and a half per week to 18 a week.
00:41Most target Muslim women who wear hijab.
00:45We're highly visible and we're highly targeted,
00:47but I think a sad reality is that these experiences are normalized by the public
00:52and now also being normalized as part and parcel of just being a Muslim Australian.
00:56And it's getting worse with research showing children like Jenna
01:00are increasingly becoming direct targets.
01:04Our victim pool is getting younger and younger
01:07and they're starting to actually bear the brunt of something
01:10that they can't even begin to understand or explain or even process.
01:13It's very frustrating.
01:15One of the reasons why I made sure that she speaks out
01:18and this story gets aired out is because people need to see that this has to stop.
01:27Hi, Laura. How are you going? How are you going?
01:33How's it going? How's it going? How's it going?
01:33How's it going on? How's it going? How's it going? Are you going to be coming?
01:34How are we going? How are you going? How are you gonna guess what steps?
01:34You
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