Books aim to keep Indigenous children safe online

Key points

• Indigenous translators and illustrators in the Northern Territory have worked with the Australian Federal Police to create two picture books on online child safety. The books are written in Western Arrarnta and Old Tiwi.
• Translator Maxine Malbunka says children in her community have encountered unsafe people online. The Australian Centre to Counter Child Exploitation received more than 100,000 reports of online child sexual exploitation in the past financial year, a 21 per cent rise.
• Digital versions of the books are available on the centre's website.