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Cybercrime in Australia 2025
The Cybercrime in Australia series aims to provide high-quality and robust evidence on self‑reported cybercrime victimisation, financial losses and other harms, help-seeking behaviour and, importantly, changes over time. This report offers insights into the experience of cybercrime among Australian individuals and small to medium businesses. One in five respondents experienced multiple types of cybercrime.
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Fraud and corruption against the Commonwealth 2024–25
Addressing the risks of fraud and corruption against the Commonwealth is crucial to the Australian Government. This report presents the results from the 2024–25 census on fraud against the Commonwealth, which collected responses from 162 Australian Government entities. Most external frauds where the allegation was substantiated targeted program payments.
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Strengthening Australia’s criminal justice response to modern slavery: a rapid assessment
Modern slavery is a serious, pervasive and largely hidden human rights and safety issue. This report was commissioned to understand opportunities to improve Australia’s criminal justice response to modern slavery. The report identifies ongoing gaps in Australia’s criminal justice response to modern slavery that are preventing some victims and survivors from accessing justice and remedy.
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Sexual offending in Australia 2023–24
This statistical report covers sexual offending proceeded against by police in all Australian states and territories for the period 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024. The report provides data on sexual offenders, sexual offence victims, youth offenders and adult offenders. In 2023–24, police proceeded against 10,359 individuals for sexual offences in Australia.
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Do females known for online child sexual exploitation differ from males? Group characteristics and recidivism
Despite increasing research on online child sexual exploitation, limited research compares female and male perpetrators. This study examined 116 females and 116 age-matched males known to police in Victoria for online child sexual exploitation on group characteristics and risk of reoffending. The findings have implications for policy and highlight several important avenues for future research.