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Available sources show mass shootings (defined here as incidents with four or more people shot or killed) have been very rare in Australia since the 1995–96 Port Arthur era, with long periods of no su...
Reports show Honor Guns appeared as the second-largest “niche” dark‑web gun market in one academic crawl (45 listings) and that many darknet firearms listings and vendors are unreliable — some are sca...
Available academic surveys and specialist reports list "Honor Guns" among multiple niche darknet firearms markets but do not provide definitive proof it is a trustworthy marketplace; one study counted...
Platforms in 2025 use a mix of legacy and emerging techniques: hash-matching against databases for known CSAM, predictive/machine‑learning classifiers to flag novel or modified images and videos, and ...
There are remarkably few rigorous empirical studies that directly measure how adoption of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) changes the number of CSAM reports or the rate at which law enforcement opens cas...
Counting mass shootings in Australia depends heavily on the numerical threshold (commonly four or more people shot versus five or more killed), whether injured victims or perpetrators are included, an...
There is no reporting in the supplied sources that prosecutors have introduced AI chatbot “confessions” as admissible evidence in child sexual‑abuse material (CSAM) trials; available sources discuss A...
Evidence from Australian reporting and agency material points to several programs with supportive evaluations: family-focused Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) is identified as “strongest current evidence”...