Sunshine Coast school teacher Rachel Downie has created a computer program for students to stymie cyber bullying.
Miss Downie created the website ‘Stymie’ from her home in Buderim, which allows students to utilise social media to anonymously report evidence of any cruelty happening to someone for investigation by their school.
With already 200 schools signed up to the program since it launched in 2014, the Queensland government has formed a Youth Advisory Council to develop plans to tackle the use of social media in school bullying and report to federal authorities on a national plan to tackle cyber bullying.