Fighting online youth radicalisation, Australia and India can teach each other

(Soumya Awasthi and Fitriani – ASPI The Strategist) Two democracies, very different in scale, are grappling with the same problem: how to protect young people from radicalisation through online gaming. After Australia’s worst terrorist attack, the Bondi Beach massacre in December, the federal government this 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. – Fighting online youth radicalisation, Australia and India can teach each other | The Strategist