ICMEC Australia

AI in the fight against child exploitation: Global perspectives and solutions
2024-09-19 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | online, Hosted virtually by ICMEC Australia via Microsoft Teams.
As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, it presents both challenges and opportunities in protecting children from exploitation. Our September Brown Bag will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be harnessed to enhance efforts in preventing and combatting online child sexual abuse by looking at a pioneering initiative led by the World Childhood Foundation.

Susanne Drakborg from the World Childhood Foundation will provide in-depth insights into their Stella Polaris project, which combines child rights with AI to create a coordinated, multi-layered approach to combatting child sexual abuse. By fostering collaboration between the technology sector, the judiciary, and child rights organisations, Stella Polaris aims to accelerate the development and implementation of AI solutions that can make meaningful impact in the fight against this heinous crime.

The session will discuss the importance of a global solution to a worldwide problem as we navigate child protection in the age of AI, what we can learn from the data-driven approaches of our international counterparts here in Australia, and what transparency, fairness, and innovation looks like when using AI to bolster child protection efforts. Susanne will share insights from successful AI solutions and offer practical suggestions for how you can be a part of the fight against online child sexual abuse, whether you work in child protection, law enforcement, technology, or policy-making.

Your Speaker

Susanne Drakborg, Senior Programs Manager at World Childhood Foundation, works globally to prevent child sexual abuse. Susanne has led the World Childhood Foundation’s Child Safety Online program for the past 17 years, and is the team lead for Stella Polaris – a hub exploring and supporting how Artificial Intelligence can help combat child sexual abuse. A lawyer by education and a multi-linguist, Ms Drakborg previously worked for the United Nations on HIV and AIDS issues and on civil-military coordination on behalf of the European Commission.

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Connecting the dots - modern slavery, child exploitation, and preventing harm to customers
2024-08-29 00:30 - 13:30
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) is often viewed and managed in isolation, despite its deep interconnection with other human impact crimes, like modern slavery. This siloed approach can limit our effectiveness in addressing the full range of these interrelated issues.

As organisations increasingly focus on minimising the risks of modern slavery through efforts prompted by the Modern Slavery Act, there is a significant and urgent opportunity to extend this same vigilance to protecting customers, particularly children, from harm. Regulatory changes and evolving stakeholder expectations are also intensifying, with customer outcomes critical to maintaining a social licence to operate.

Our August Brown Bag will shed light on how organisations can leverage existing modern slavery efforts for broader harm minimisation. Drawing on lessons learned across industries, this session will discuss embedding safety principles in the design, development, and deployment of products and services. Featuring Sarah Minahan and Gemma Livingston, Directors of KPMG’s Human Rights and Social Impact services in Australia and New Zealand, the discussion will explore specialist insights, real-world case studies, and practical actions to help keep some of your most vulnerable customers - children - safe.

Your Speakers

Sarah Minahan, Director, Human Rights and Social Impact at KPMG, works with clients to embed human rights and modern slavery due diligence into their operations and supply chains. As KPMG’s Social ESG Lead in Financial Services, she has extensive experience in supporting managers in financial service institutions, as well as broader sectors such as energy, telecommunications, retail, and more. Sarah specialises in risk control design and implementation, stakeholder engagement, risk and social impact strategy, sustainability reporting, and impact measurement.

Gemma Livingston leads KPMG’s Human Rights and Social Impact offerings in New Zealand. Specialising in human rights due diligence, Gemma works with clients to identify and address human rights and modern slavery risks across their business operations and supply chains. With a background in commercial and criminal litigation and experience in the public, private, and community sectors in New Zealand and Australia, Gemma brings a wealth of knowledge to working with financial institutions to incorporate safety principles in areas like child exploitation, modern slavery, financial abuse, and more.

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Using internet-based open sources – intelligence or information: it depends
2024-07-25 12:30 - 13:30 | online, Hosted virtually by ICMEC Australia via Microsoft Teams.
July’s Monthly Brown Bag session will be presented by Warren Bulmer, Head of Data Products at ICMEC Australia. Warren will draw on his law enforcement experience to provide tools that can enhance the work organisations do in detecting, investigating, and reporting child sexual exploitation, particularly in online environments.

People today cannot help but leave a digital trail wherever they navigate on the Internet or use any technology with their devices. Where that data is stored, how it is accessed or found, and what it can reveal manifests into hundreds of variables. Equally, those variables determine the tools and methodologies needed to search for and analyse Internet-based information, as well as facilitate the assessment of the levels of privacy expected or, in many cases, misunderstood by the person who owns the information.

Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) has become a mainstream buzzword, but in reality, most researchers, journalists and investigators are just collecting information, which is called OSINF. It becomes intelligence when processes or structures are applied to the collection of information, such as ethics, authentication or verification, analysis, reporting, and dissemination. This session will focus on tips, tricks, and tools to find information about online identities or artefacts worthy of actioning into intelligence, depending on what purpose it serves.

Your Speaker

Warren Bulmer, Head of Data Products at ICMEC Australia, collaborates with industry to create innovative technological solutions to make the world a safer place for children. A retired Detective Constable with 30 years at the Toronto Police Service specialising in criminal investigations, Warren has extensive experience in fighting against child sexual exploitation and sharing this knowledge with other professionals. Warren has been an international instructor in computer and internet-facilitated crime, having lectured over 7,000 judges, prosecutors, and police from 39 different countries to date. He has also taught at the United Nations in Thailand; the Canadian Police College; the Ontario Police College; and at Humber College, where he instructed students in conducting online investigations and open-source intelligence techniques (OSINT). Warren also worked for the Australian Federal Police as a Product Manager for three years, where he helped build technical capabilities for the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation (ACCCE).

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A holistic human rights approach to fighting child sexual exploitation in a financial institution
2024-06-27 12:30 - 13:30 | online, Hosted virtually by ICMEC Australia via Microsoft Teams.
Within financial institutions, the financial crime team usually plays a leading role in fighting child sexual exploitation. However, due to this crime type's complexity and ever-evolving nature, a more holistic approach to child safeguarding and protection across financial organisations is needed. This approach creates greater meaningful change, not just within the company, but for the benefit of its customers and our broader society.

This month’s Brown Bag will showcase how Westpac Group has adopted a human rights lens above and beyond their financial crime work to proactively address child exploitation. Westpac’s efforts are led by a core mission to prevent exploitation from occurring in the first place. Their work focuses on strengthening human rights due diligence using a Safety by Design approach and raising awareness in collaboration with other partners and businesses.

Presented by Dr Kavitha Suthanthiraraj and Natasha Menezes from Westpac Group’s Human Rights and Social Programs team, the session will cover how Westpac used a human rights approach in designing the Safer Children, Safer Communities program, publishing their first Child Safeguarding Position Statement in 2021 (a first for an Australian bank), and how they continue to embed their child safeguarding commitments as part of their broader human rights program.

Please join us for this valuable session to hear Westpac Group share innovative strategies and tangible solutions to assist your organisation in its fight against CSE.

About Westpac’s Safer Children, Safer Communities program

The Safer Children, Safer Communities program involves a series of actions and investments designed to make a meaningful impact on child safety and protection. The program is delivered in Australia and across the Asia Pacific.

For more information on Westpac’s Safer Children, Safer Communities program, please visit their website.

Your Speakers

Dr Kavitha Suthanthiraraj, Head of ESG, Human Rights and Social Programs at Westpac, has over 20 years of experience in strategy, policy and sustainability roles across corporates, international non-profits, and academic institutions. Joining Westpac in June 2020, Kavitha established and led the Safer Children, Safer Communities work program, and currently heads up a portfolio of human rights and social programs, including modern slavery reporting. With a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, Kavitha has published articles and reports across a range of human rights issues and has worked on several policy and advocacy initiatives during her career.

Natasha Menezes, Executive Manager of Social Programs at Westpac, has over 10 years’ experience in sustainability, human rights, and policy areas across consulting, corporates, and the not-for-profit sector. In 2021, Natasha led the development of Westpac’s Child Safeguarding Position Statement and is currently focused on driving a cross-industry child safeguarding business coalition to share Westpac’s learnings with other Australian businesses. Her career spans a range of human-rights-focused work, climate change, sustainability strategy, modern slavery, and sustainability reporting.

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Stop It Now! Australia: The power of child sexual abuse perpetrator prevention services
2024-05-08 12:30 - 13:30 | online, Hosted virtually by ICMEC Australia via Microsoft Teams.
Discussions around child sexual exploitation (CSE) frequently revolve around identifying and responding to instances of abuse. However, what can we do to prevent perpetration?

In 2023, the University of NSW (UNSW), in partnership with Jesuit Social Services, released the first national representative study, Identifying and understanding child sexual offending behaviour and attitudes among Australian men. The study found around one in six (15.1%) Australian men reported sexual feelings towards children. Of these, 29.6% of them wanted help for these feelings, representing a shocking 4.5% of Australian men.

This month’s Brown Bag will focus on the importance of secondary prevention efforts in the fight to end child sexual abuse. Presented by Georgia Naldrett and Dee Nicholas from Stop It Now! Australia (an initiative of Jesuit Social Services), the session will provide a brief history of perpetration prevention, findings from their 2023 perpetration prevalence study with UNSW, and how they relate to Stop It Now!’s work. Georgia and Dee will also explore emerging trends from the perpetrator prevalence study and working with perpetrators via the Stop It Now! Australia helpline, including what we know about their online behaviour (e.g. use of cryptocurrency, pornography use etc.).

Registrations close on Monday, 27th May at 12pm (AEST).

About Stop It Now!

Stop it Now! is a program that offers an anonymous helpline, chat and web resources for people concerned about their own sexual thoughts and behaviours towards children, or for people concerned about the thoughts or behaviours of others. ICMEC Australia recently partnered with Jesuit Social Services to support the expansion and development of this prevention program in Australia.

Your Speakers

Georgia Naldrett is the Stop It Now! Australia Manager within The Men’s Project at Jesuit Social Services. Within this role she applies her psychological and practice knowledge of sexual offending and child protection to aid in the prevention of child sexual abuse, including leading the Stop It Now! helpline. Georgia is a psychology graduate with a BSc (hons) in Psychology and a MSc in Forensic Psychology from the UK. She has been employed in a variety of psychology roles where she developed her learning and application of rehabilitation and prevention, including previously working at The Lucy Faithfull Foundation in the UK.

Dee Nicholas is the Senior Practitioner at Stop It Now! Australia, where she uses her academic and practice experience and knowledge of offender rehabilitation and prevention to provide support, advice and psychoeducation to prevent child sexual abuse. She holds a BSc in Psychology and a MSc in Forensic Psychology from Newcastle University, UK. Dee has previously worked at Stop It Now! UK where she gained extensive knowledge of child protection and sexual offending, and has worked in a variety of forensic and clinical settings.

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Research insights on child sexual abuse material offending among Australian adults
2024-02-22 12:30 - 13:30 | online, Hosted virtually by ICMEC Australia via Microsoft Teams.
While official reports of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) have grown rapidly in recent years, less is known about how commonly CSAM is viewed and by whom, due largely to the hidden nature of such offending.

ICMEC Australia’s February Monthly Brown Bag event features new insights from the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC). Our presenter, Dr Rick Brown, will discuss the recent large-scale study by the AIC which explored the extent to which Australian adults intentionally viewed CSAM. Rick will also unpack the demographic factors that distinguished those who viewed the material and offer potential explanations and implications.

Registrations close on Tuesday, 20th February at 5pm (AEDT).

Dr Rick Brown is the Deputy Director of the Australian Institute of Criminology, where he oversees the day-to-day work of the Institute. He has been a criminologist for over 30 years and has worked on a wide range of crime and justice research projects in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, and Australia. He has published over 80 government reports, book chapters and journal articles, and recently published his first book, with Routledge, Eliminating online child sexual abuse material. Rick is also on the editorial boards of several academic journals.

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How cryptocurrencies can help play a role in detecting CSE facilitated online
2023-11-28 12:30 - 13:30 | online, Hosted virtually by ICMEC Australia via Microsoft Teams.
Our payment habits have drastically transformed in recent years, especially since the development of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain. Digital currencies operate on a computer network, decentralised from a typical financial institution. The innate characteristics of cryptocurrencies provide anonymity and privacy to perpetrators, however, a sense of being undetectable is false.

ICMEC Australia’s November Brown Bag event will cover a topical discussion for all those working in the child sexual exploitation response community. The trading of child sexual abuse material online is sometimes accompanied by a financial transaction, so understanding the different payment methods that offenders use is key to knowing how to navigate our response to this crime. For a whole-of-system response to be successful, expanding our knowledge and understanding of new technologies used by perpetrators is key.

With an increase in digital currencies as a method of payment, the rapid advancements in this area since the introduction of the Blockchain in 2008 have grown the complexity of detecting suspicious payments. Understanding how cryptocurrency operates and its differences from traditional banking structures is critical to applying frameworks to detect and prevent child sexual exploitation transactions.

Our presenter, Luke McGoldrick, comes from Chainalysis, a global Blockchain Data Platform. He will outline cryptocurrency, its capabilities, and the ways it has the potential to intersect with online child sexual exploitation. Luke will cover the different types of crypto, how they can be used to facilitate child sexual exploitation, and will dispel the idea that digital payments made on the Blockchain are completely untraceable.

Part of developing a robust response to child sexual exploitation online is to maintain pace with how offenders manipulate existing technologies to abuse and exploit children, including the use of crypto and other digital payments.

Luke McGoldrick is a Sales Director at Chainalysis responsible for financial institutions across Australia and NZ. In his role, he is helping organisations maintain compliance across digital asset initiatives and assisting financial crimes teams in reducing scams and illicit activity where crypto is involved. Having been involved in crypto since 2018 Luke is a strong advocate for the importance of building trust in blockchains in order for the technology to fulfill its potential.

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ICMEC Australia Financial Symposium: Protecting Children Online
2023-10-25 05:30 - 06:00 | Norton Rose Fulbright Office, Level 5, 60 Martin Place, Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia
Understanding the whole-of-organisation financial response to child sexual exploitation

ICMEC Australia invites you to our Financial Symposium to better detect, report and prevent Child Sexual Exploitation. This exclusive event will address how the financial services industry can embed a whole-of-organisation approach to enhancing the fight against Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE).

The Symposium brings together leaders from financial crime, ESG, corporate affairs, customer vulnerability and risk mitigation areas from within key financial services to gain insight from industry experts into trends and gaps in this growing human rights issue. This symposium provides an opportunity to share knowledge on data detection and network with like-minded industry colleagues.

Attendees will walk away from this event motivated and inspired, with key insights to help establish a whole-of-system approach to combating CSE.

Why

Child Sexual Exploitation facilitated online is one of the fastest-growing crimes globally, with the UN estimating that approximately 750,000 people access Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) online every second.

Technology is an incredible tool, but it provides opportunities for everyone, including perpetrators of CSE:

Just last year, the ACCCE reported a 100-fold increase in monthly child sextortion figures (December 2022)

The IWF reported that coerced self-generated CSAM rose by two-thirds in the first half of 2022

Demand for live-streaming of Child Sexual Abuse in the Philippines sharply increased, with possible reports to NCMEC more than doubling to 3.2 million from 2020 to 2021

Many of these crimes involve financial transactions which leave a trace, providing data for financial crime analysts to detect and report.

But these crimes aren't just detectable, they are also preventable, and financial institutions can play a significant role in shifting the needle on this crime at both ends of the spectrum.

Together, we can strengthen the fight against this heinous crime by looking at a whole-of-system approach to preventing and detecting CSE facilitated online.

Our approach

An informative one-day conference, this event will offer a balance between networking, opportunities to learn, and interaction with industry experts delivering key takeaways.

You will leave with a stronger understanding of Child Sexual Exploitation and how it impacts the financial services industry across financial crime and risk, as well as across a governance and social impact perspective.

Who is invited

We welcome decision-makers and leaders from Financial Services Industry organisations that facilitate payments and transactions through products and services that may be vulnerable to Child Sexual Exploitation risks. These institutions may include banks, remitters, payment platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges and credit card companies.

Within these institutions, the program will focus on two streams:

Financial Crime

If you are responsible for leading the identification, mitigation and management of Financial Crime risks relating to Child Sexual Exploitation, then our Financial Crime stream is suited to you. This could include subject matter experts leading functions in financial crime, financial crime intelligence, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence risk mitigation or similar.

ESG & Human Rights

If you are responsible for leading your Financial Institution's Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) and/or Human Rights strategy and performance, you’re a leader in Customer Vulnerability or for setting organisational strategy at the Executive level, our ESG & Human Rights stream is suited to you.

Please note: This knowledge-sharing day has a limited number of spots available and all applicants are subject to approval and must suit the seniority criteria above.

Why you should attend

To strengthen relationships in the CSE response community and network with colleagues from law enforcement, banks, academics and other corporate stakeholders

Acquire key insights into key crime types, including tangible information and takeaways that can create effective change in your organisation’s approach to combating CSE

To participate in open forums to discuss building positive change through safety by design

Understand how to integrate CSE prevention and detection into your organisation

To uncover new insights & information, and share best practice on preventing and tackling this crime in all its forms

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Supporters

This event is proudly supported by Norton Rose Fulbright, a key provider of pro bono legal services in Australia.

Support the ICMEC Australia Financial Symposium

If you are interested in becoming a supporter of this event, please contact RosieCampo, ICMEC Australia's Head of Collaboration by emailingrcampo@icmec.org.au.

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We're starting off the event with the following speakers. For the full list of speakers, please click here↗.

Chris OwenPartner, ESG Group Chair, National Pro Bono Team LeaderNorton Rose Fulbright Australia

Chris Owen is a partner at Norton Rose Fulbright Australia and leads the firm’s national pro bono program. He is also chair of the firm’s ESG group. A litigator by background, Chris has a broad range of expertise advising in pro bono legal matters, including advising at clinics, assisting Indigenous communities, conducting advocacy on behalf of clients in court proceedings and advising on international pro bono projects. He has particular interests in human rights, strategic litigation and sustainability.

Jodie ArthurGeneral Manager, Financial CrimeWestpac Group

Jodie joined Westpac in 2020 following her role as Regional Head of Financial Crime Compliance at Standard Chartered Bank, based in Singapore. Prior to this, Jodie spent 12.5 years at ANZ Bank in a variety of roles spanning Internal Audit, Compliance, and Financial Crime and also worked for a number of years with E&Y in London, UK.

Dr Michael SalterAssociate Professor, Scientia Research FellowUniversity of New South Wales

Dr Michael Salter is the Scientia Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of New South Wales. He is an internationally recognised expert in the study of child abuse, violence against women, and complex trauma. His published work includes the books Organised Sexual Abuse (2013, Routledge) and Crime, Justice and Social Media (2017, Routledge), and over fifty papers in international journals and edited collections. His research engages with policy and practice across multiple sectors, including mental health, social work, child protection, law enforcement, and internet regulation.

Sonja MarsicRisk Advisory PartnerNorton Rose Fulbright

Sonja Marsic is a risk advisory partner at global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright based in Sydney. Sonja has undertaken a number of financial crime and anti-money laundering & counter-terrorism financing (AML/CTF) cases in Australia. She has over 25 years' experience in civil enforcement, civil investigations, and statutory interpretation. Sonja was previously a Senior Executive Lawyer with the Australian Government Solicitor (AGS) conducting litigation and advising on anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulation, financial regulation, consumer law, and other civil regulation for a broad range of Commonwealth departments and agencies.

Paul JevtovicChief Financial Crime Risk Officer & Group MLRONational Australia Bank Limited

Paul Jevtovic has enjoyed a long career serving our nation in national and international law enforcement, national intelligence, anti-corruption, and as CEO of AUSTRAC – Australia’s AML/CTF regulator and national financial intelligence unit. Paul recently joined NAB in September 2021 as the Chief Financial Crime Risk Officer & Group MLRO. Throughout his career, Paul has led a complex portfolio of capabilities across the first and second lines of defence including Investigations, Financial Crime analysis, AML/CTF, AB&C, Fraud, Sanctions, Risk Assessment & Operational Analytics, and Transaction Monitoring.

Dylan RyanHead of Financial Crime AdvisoryANZ Australia Retail Bank, Australia Commercial Bank, Corporate Centre & Services Divisions

Dylan has over 21 years of financial crime experience (incl. AML/CTF, Sanctions, Fraud Risk and Anti-Bribery / Anti-Corruption). He has also worked on anti-crime-related initiatives and activities across a range of industries such as mining, media, government, facilities management, casinos, and algorithmic trading organisations. In his current role at ANZ, he and the team provide subject matter expertise and 2nd Line risk support to 55 business units, which also includes the digital transformation of ANZ’s Retail Bank in Australia.

Prior to this, he was ANZ’s Head of Fraud Risk Strategy which involved ensuring fraud risk management alignment (including cyber-related risk) across 31 countries in which ANZ operates.

‘Follow the money’: A collaborative approach to fighting CSE
2023-09-27 12:30 - 13:30 | online, Hosted virtually by ICMEC Australia via Microsoft Teams.
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Following the digital footprint left by the online activity of child sexual predators is key when it comes to protecting children from technology-assisted sexual abuse. But maintaining pace with the evolving tactics of offenders takes a networked approach.

Understanding how each organisation fits into the jigsaw puzzle that is child protection requires cross-industry collaboration. ICMEC Australia’s September Brown Bag event will feature Madonna King and Jon Rouse APM in an in-depth discussion on the importance of collaboration - especially between two key industries in the fight against CSE, law enforcement and financial institutions.

They will discuss the important role that financial institutions play in the response to child sexual exploitation, and how their work forms an essential part of the evidence needed to find perpetrators and, ultimately, their victims.

Understanding the perspectives and challenges faced by the different frontline defenders of children being harmed is essential in the fight against this heinous crime. Jon will share his insights from three decades of experience in law enforcement, and a deep understanding of the impact that collaboration has on bringing about better outcomes for children.

A renowned Australian journalist Madonna released her latest book Saving Our Kids during National Child Protection Week. The book tells the inside story of Taskforce Argos, a renowned Queensland Police Force investigative team dedicated to prosecuting online child sex offenders and saving children from harm. Featuring the work of many of ICMEC Australia’s staff, Madonna emphasises the important role of financial institutions in fighting CSE, and will elaborate on this in her discussion with Jon.

This “global humanitarian crisis” can’t be ignored and whether you work at a financial institution, regulator, online platform, law enforcement agency, or not-for-profit, you will gain great insights from this session.

Join us online on Wednesday 27th September at 1:00pm as Madonna and Jon engage in a meaningful conversation that will help guide your work in child protection, and ultimately to enhance the detection, reporting, prosecution, and prevention of online child sexual exploitation.

Your speakers

Madonna King is one of Australia’s most accomplished journalists, having won awards for her ABC Radio Brisbane Mornings current affairs program. She writes for publications such as Nine, The New Daily and InQld, regularly appears on ABC’s The Drum, and is the author of numerous bestselling books.

Jon Rouse APM is one of the world’s most recognised and influential figures in the fight against child sexual exploitation. He has 39 years’ law enforcement experience with QPS, 26 of those years spent leading Taskforce Argos. Jon joined the ICMEC Australia Board in December 2022 as part of his continued commitment to protecting and saving children from sexual exploitation and abuse.

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Saving Our Kids: Fireside chat with Madonna King and Jon Rouse
2023-08-17 00:00
Join Madonna King and Jon Rouse APM in a fireside chat about how we can protect our children from sexual abuse and exploitation

Madonna King's new book tells the inside story of Taskforce Argos, the renowned Queensland Police team dedicated to prosecuting offenders of online child sexual exploitation and saving children from harm. Collaborating with Jon, Madonna writes about their investigations, from undercover cases to operations on a global scale. She explores what makes a victim and what makes an abuser, and distils the work that goes into bringing down perpetrators. "Saving Our Kids" highlights the dangers lurking in every child's smartphone, web browser, and computer game. It is the story of the tireless work of saving children from the online manipulation that is stealing their innocence, and raises awareness of how we can all protect the children in our lives.

This fireside chat will give deeper meaning to your work in fighting against child sexual exploitation facilitated online, and leave you inspired by the importance of what you do on a daily basis.

Your speakers

Madonna King is one of Australia's most accomplished journalists, having won awards for her ABC Radio Brisbane Mornings current affairs program. She writes for publications such as Nine, Crikey and The New Daily, and is the author of numerous bestselling books.

Jon Rouse is one of the world’s most recognised and influential figures in the fight against child sexual exploitation. He has 39 years’ law enforcement experience with QPS, 26 of those years spent leading Task force Argos. Jon joined the ICMEC Australia Board in December 2022 as part of his continued commitment to protecting and saving children from sexual exploitation and abuse.

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