Overview
- The eSafety Commissioner told the royal commission this week her office logged 108,000 complaints in the year to June 30, 2026, up from about 55,000 the prior year.
- The commissioner has launched three legal actions against X over its refusal to remove graphic Bondi massacre footage and other violent material after platform requests were rejected.
- Under the current Adult Cyber Abuse Scheme only about 2 percent of complaints met the legal threshold to force takedowns, the commissioner said.
- Government work to implement a mandated digital duty of care and a statutory definition of online hate remains more than 18 months away and information‑sharing agreements with police are uneven across jurisdictions.
- Victims and advocates told the commission that persistent online abuse has real security and mental‑health effects, and the eSafety office says its small investigator team of fewer than 40 limits its ability to scale a faster response.