With growing concerns in many countries about the online radicalisation of young people, Dr Soumya Awasthi, a fellow of the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation, and Dr Fitriani, a senior analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Cyber Technology and Security Program, believe that Australia and India could learn much by sharing their country’s experiences.
Two democracies, very different in scale, are grappling with the same problem: how to protect young people from radicalisation through online gaming.
Australia’s existing measures, including the ban on social media for under-16s and the eSafety Commissioner’s recent transparency notices to major gaming platforms, are a welcome start, but attention to the gaming layer remains underdone.
After Australia’s worst terrorist attack, the Bondi Beach massacre in December, the Federal Government last month committed A$74 million to a new Counter Terrorism Online Centre to monitor gaming platforms, chat rooms and online forums. India, with an estimated 600 million gamers, passed Online Gaming Act in 2025 to bring its vast digital ecosystem under regulatory oversight.
Neither country has solved the problem. But together, they hold many of the pieces needed to do so.
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