Know what you are dealing with
SmackTalk combines lived experience with a growing commitment to evidence-informed practice. Everything in these modules is published with its source, so you can take it into a classroom, a club or a boardroom and stand behind it.
Start anywhere. Each module works on its own, and each one links back to the full data and the research it came from.
Learn the evidence
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Suicide in Australia: the facts
The 2024 ABS figures, what they look like as a daily rate rather than an annual total, and the patterns that hold year on year.
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Suicide in Australia: the facts
The 2024 ABS figures, drawn at one mark per person, and what they look like as a daily rate rather than an annual total.
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Sexual extortion
How image-based abuse and sextortion work, the patterns the eSafety Commissioner sees most often, and what to do when it happens.
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AI and online harm
A 2026 national study of 1,894 Australian 16 to 18 year olds on how AI is changing the online sexual victimisation of children.
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Our program
Educational workshops, youth programs, policy advocacy and research. What a SmackTalk session actually covers.
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Media and news
Press coverage, television interviews and the national conversation on social media age limits that SmackTalk helped shape.
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Impact
The full set of figures with their sources, including the research SmackTalk uses when advising on legislation.
Bring this to your community
Wayne delivers these sessions in person to schools, sporting clubs and workplaces across Australia.
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