Schools around the globe need to be provided with clear boundaries to which their duty of care extends and students, teachers and parents need to be provided with clear avenues to protect them outside the school. Australian legislation and departmental policies have failed to keep up with advances in technology and do not effectively deal with the problems surrounding cyber bullying, either within schools or within society more generally. Australian legislation is extremely limited and requires the adaptation of other legal mechanisms such as anti-stalking and harassment laws to tackle cyber bullying. It also appears that current laws and policies have stemmed from face-to-face bullying measures and are not designed to deal with the new forms of bullying that are possible in the 21st
Schools around the globe need to be provided with clear boundaries to which their duty of care extends and students, teachers and parents need to be provided with clear avenues to protect them outside the school. Australian legislation and departmental policies have failed to keep up with advances in technology and do not effectively deal with the problems surrounding cyber bullying, either within schools or within society more generally. Australian legislation is extremely limited and requires the adaptation of other legal mechanisms such as anti-stalking and harassment laws to tackle cyber bullying. It also appears that current laws and policies have stemmed from face-to-face bullying measures and are not designed to deal with the new forms of bullying that are possible in the 21st