The vision of a 12-year-old girl who dreamed of a world where children looked out for one another has become the driving force behind sweeping national anti-bullying reforms, following her tragic death by suicide.

Charlotte O’Brien’s father, Matt Howard, has worked tirelessly with education ministers to transform his daughter’s words into action, helping shape key changes aimed at creating safer, kinder schools across Australia .

Charlotte’s powerful message about being “an upstander, not a bystander” has been incorporated into a comprehensive new report that received an overwhelming 1700 submissions from brave individuals sharing their own stories.

“Charlotte used to say to us that, you know, she just needed an upstander, not bystanders,” Howard said on Sunrise.

“This has come from

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