Police investigate viral video of 'brutal' teenage brawl
Queensland Police are investigating after disturbing vision of teenage girls fighting at a Brisbane shopping centre emerged on social media.
In the footage captured at Orion Shopping Centre at Springfield two girls appear to first push each other around before finally one girl violently flips another over her shoulder and on to her back.
While the fight is occurring other young teens appear to stand by and watch on.
At no point in the footage does anyone step in and attempt to end the brawl.
Since it was originally posted the vision has been shared more than 6,000 times on Facebook.
It’s understood the confronting vision was posted online by one of the girls involved in the brawl.
One of the teen’s mothers then shared the vision in a bid to raise awareness and to stop the violence.
New study highlights threat of bullying
On Wednesday a world-wide survey released by the OECD revealed that bullying is "perhaps the most distressing threat to students' well-being.”
The study asked students how they felt about their achievement at school, their relationships with peers and professors, their home life and their leisure activities.
In 34 of the countries studied, more than 10 per cent of the students said their classmates make fun of them several times a month.
Around four per cent reported being hit or pushed several times a month, while 7.7 per cent said they were victims of physical harassment several times a year.
Among those who reported frequent harassment, 42 per cent said they felt like outsiders at school.
The study also warned about excessive internet use, saying more than one in four (26 per cent) of respondents spent more than six hours a day connected at the weekend, and 16 per cent said they devoted similar chunks of time online on weekdays.
"These 'extreme internet users' are more likely to feel lonely at school, have low expectations of further education, and tend to arrive late for school," the report said.
"There are no quick fixes for the risks of the digital era, but schools can create opportunities for students to use the internet more responsibly," PISA coordinator Andreas Schleicher said in the report.
