Ms Rachel Coyle:

Absolutely. She has worked very closely with us and we have talked to her about the toolkit we have developed on social media policies for political parties to address the fact that women disproportionately receive abuse online. It ranges from anything from what women look like to serious threats of violence. Social media companies are clearly not taking action on this. We obviously encourage people to report but they do not. Unfortunately, it goes back to political parties having to deal with this. It is not always easy because, in some cases, members of political parties are responsible for the abuse of women and female elected representatives. It is a difficult one. It is not easy to address that tension. None of us wants to be in the position of, "Oh, there she goes again". I hate always having to be that person in the room when I am the only female voice but, unfortunately, we just have to keep at it.

We absolutely support the Senator in what she is doing and with anything we can do. We have what I think is a very good resource that our researchers developed. If there is any follow-up training or presentations we can make around this, we would be very happy to do that.