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Maeve Bannister

Online safety leader stares down abuse, death threats

"The more they target me, the more I dig in," eSafety boss Julie Inman Grant says of her abusers. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

As more women take on public leadership and regulatory roles, Australia's first eSafety commissioner warns they could require security protections similar to elected parliamentarians due to plausible online threats made against them.

Julie Inman Grant made history when she was appointed to lead Australia's eSafety Commission in 2017, a world-first government regulatory body dedicated to keeping citizens safer online.

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