These are services that can act on this kind of situation in Australia. Each listing shows when we last checked it.
If a child is in danger now, call emergency services in Australia.
Emergency services · Australia
Verified 30 Oct 2026Call 000 (Triple Zero)
For life-threatening or time-critical situations. From a mobile phone, 112 also connects to Triple Zero.
Child helpline · Australia
Verified 30 Oct 2026Call 1800 55 1800 or chat online
Phone and web chat counselling for children and young people in Australia, any time of day or night.
Online safety regulator · Australia
Verified 30 Oct 2026Report online
Australia’s online safety regulator investigates cyberbullying of children, image-based abuse (sharing or threatening to share intimate images without consent) and illegal and restricted online content, and can have seriously harmful content removed.
Reporting online exploitation · Australia
Verified 30 Oct 2026Report online
Report online child sexual exploitation, including grooming and sexual extortion, to the Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation. The site also has help for victims of sextortion.
Crisis support · Australia
Verified 30 Oct 2026Call 13 11 14 or text 0477 13 11 14
Crisis support for anyone in Australia who is struggling to cope or thinking about suicide, by phone, text or online chat.
Directory of services · International
Verified 30 Oct 2026A directory of child helplines around the world, listed by country with their contact details. Child helplines are run by organisations in each country to listen to and support children and young people.
Hotline for child sexual abuse material · International
Verified 30 Oct 2026Explains how to report sexual images or videos of children found online, and links to the hotline for your country. You report the web address, not the files, and you do not need to give your name. INHOPE’s secretariat is not itself a hotline and cannot receive reports.
Help removing images · International
Verified 30 Oct 2026A free service that helps remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you before you were 18. It creates a digital fingerprint of the image on your own device, so you do not send the image to anyone, and you can stay anonymous. It works on public or unencrypted platforms that have agreed to take part.
Directory of services · International
Verified 30 Oct 2026A directory of free, confidential helplines and crisis lines in many countries, searchable by country and by topic, for emotional support and crisis situations including thoughts of suicide.
