Communications Minister Michelle Rowland will hold a national roundtable in Sydney on Wednesday in a bid to improve the safety of online dating apps as Australians 'deserves to live free from harassment and all forms of violence'.
"Australians deserve to live free from harassment and all forms of violence — including on online dating services," she wrote to Twitter on Monday.
Ms Rowland declared the government was concerned by the"unacceptable levels of abuse and harassment". Communications Minister Michelle Rowland declared the government was concerned by the"unacceptable levels of abuse and harassment". Picture: NewsWire / Gary Ramage It comes after a report from the Australian Institute of Criminology showed a third of dating app users have experienced sexual violence in person over the past five years.
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