It's the usual busy Monday night in your home. It's been a long day, you're about to finish cleaning up dinner and pack school lunches for tomorrow, when your child asks if they can use the family iPad to chat with friends online.

You allow it and remind them that it's just for a little while. They grab the device and head off to their bedroom.

But behind their closed bedroom door, they have access to an online world where there are many real harms for kids. Whether it's talking to strangers, being exposed to inappropriate content, experiencing cyberbullying or, sadly in a growing number of scenarios, being extorted and abused. We know this is happening behind closed doors, out of the sight of trusting, safe adults.

One in five young Australians aged 8 to 17 years has reported being soc

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