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Requested about whether or not she’s involved about potential authorized motion from Google, Wells says she’s obtained “sharp elbows”.
We’ve had threats are available. However look, know, I’ve obtained sharp elbows. That is too vital for us to not have a crack. They’re world main legal guidelines.
Whereas social media has a spot persuasive and predatory algorithms don’t. And that’s what we’re cracking down on.
Wells says the legal guidelines won’t be set and overlook, and the social media platforms should work with the eSafety commissioner to determine the right way to put the brand new restrictions in place.
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Communications minister Anika Wells says, “mother and father now we have your backs” in asserting her determination to incorporate YouTube within the social media ban.
Wells advised the At present Present the legal guidelines “aren’t infallible” but it surely’ll be as much as the platforms to take cheap steps to cease kids being on them.
Once they discover their approach round this, as a result of we all know that children will, god bless them, the platforms [need to] take cheap steps to mitigate that from occurring and to appropriate errors.
These legal guidelines aren’t infallible, none are however that is concerning the chilling impact [of social media]. And there’s a research that requested youngsters who’re 16, 17, 18, ‘do they want that they’d not gotten on social media as early as 13?’ And so they all mentioned, yeah, they they remorse it.
Wells mentioned that Google despatched the Wiggles administration group to attempt to “persuade” her on the choice.
This was this was large Wiggle. This was Wiggles Inc., the administration round The Wiggles…
The Wiggles are a treasured Australian establishment. However like like I mentioned to them, the you’re arguing that my 4 12 months outdated twins proper to have a YouTube login is extra vital than the truth that 4 out of ten of their friends will expertise on-line hurt on YouTube.
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Up to date at 17.52 EDT
Liberal frontbencher Paul Scarr says the choice to reverse YouTube’s exemption might quantity to a “damaged promise”, however gained’t say whether or not or not together with it within the ban is the precise determination.
Over on Dawn, Scarr and Greens chief Larissa Waters have additionally been reacting to the information in a single day.
There may be numerous dangerous content material on the market. However the reality of the matter is the laws, when it was first handed by the parliament, particularly excluded YouTube, and now the federal government seems prepared to alter their place in that respect. And that’s a damaged promise.
Scarr says the get together will take a “cautious” have a look at the laws, and it’s vital to “get the stability proper” between defending kids and freedom of speech and privateness.
Waters says the bans aren’t going to work, and the social media giants ought to do higher to make the content material on their platforms safer.
Youngsters are so tech savvy, they’re going to discover a approach round these bans. These bans are usually not going to work. So what we truly have to do is to make these platforms safer and safer, not only for youngsters, however for anybody who’s accessing them. And I feel that’s the place the duty needs to be on the large tech firms. They’re getting off scot-free proper now.
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The opposition is essential of the federal government’s backflip, on together with YouTube in social media ban, saying Labor has “inquiries to reply” over the choice.
Deputy opposition chief, Ted O’Brien, says his get together will wait and see what guidelines the federal government places ahead for the ban, that are anticipated to be tabled to parliament at this time.
On Sky Information, O’Brien says the federal government “failed” to flag that it could put the ban on YouTube, after the eSafety commissioner provided recommendation to take action.
They [the government] had been silent on the chance that it could be introduced in… and so let’s wait and see what they desk. The eSafety Commissioner’s recommendation must be scrutinised.
I make the purpose they failed to inform the Australian folks about this earlier than the election.
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Good morning,
Krishani Dhanji right here with you, because of Martin Farrer for getting us began.
The federal government will probably be discussing its determination this morning to incorporate YouTube in its social media ban for below 16s – although the extra tightly curated YouTube youngsters will probably be spared.
And this morning the UK has elevated stress on Israel, declaring it’ll recognise a Palestinian state later this 12 months except Israel takes pressing steps to decide to peace. We’ll be following all native response to that this morning.
Stick with us, it’s going to be one other busy day!
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Google insists YouTube is ‘not social media’
Google has reacted to the federal government’s determination to incorporate YouTube within the under-16s social media ban (although YouTube youngsters will probably be exempt).
The search engine large says it’ll “contemplate subsequent steps”, after it threatened to sue the federal government over the weekend if it was included within the ban, earlier than the choice was introduced.
A spokesperson for YouTube mentioned in a press release that the platform is “not social media”.
We share the Authorities’s aim of addressing and lowering on-line harms. Our place stays clear: YouTube is a video sharing platform with a library of free, high-quality content material, more and more considered on TV screens. It’s not social media.
The Authorities’s announcement at this time reverses a transparent, public dedication to exclude YouTube from this ban. We’ll contemplate subsequent steps and can proceed to interact with the Authorities.
{Photograph}: Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto/REX/ShutterstockShare
Up to date at 17.50 EDT
Bowen raises ‘wise pathway for Australia to work in the direction of the popularity of Palestine’
Jordyn Beazley
Chris Bowen was additionally requested on 7.30 for his response to the choice by the UK prime minister to recall his cupboard from their summer season break for an emergency assembly on the Gaza disaster.
Requested if Australia, as a center energy, would be a part of a joint effort to make sure extra assist will get into Gaza, Bowen mentioned:
I feel the perfect factor I can do, Sarah, may be very warmly and strongly and positively level you to the prime minister’s feedback.
One, his abhorrence at what has been occurring in Gaza in latest instances, his condemnation of that motion and his statements about Australia’s function within the pathway going ahead. A smart pathway for Australia to work in the direction of the popularity of Palestine on the proper time but in addition his abhorrence on the breaches of worldwide regulation.
There’s a excessive diploma of coordination between Australia and like-minded nations, or center powers, as you accurately put it. There’s a very excessive diploma of coordination there and it’s best to count on that to proceed. Now, I’m not going to touch upon the small print of what Keir Starmer could or will not be doing as a result of that’s a matter for the UK. Clearly, we’d reply sooner or later.
Chris Bowen says there’s a ‘excessive diploma of coordination between Australia and like-minded nations’. {Photograph}: Lukas Coch/AAPShare
Up to date at 17.31 EDT
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Chris Bowen: ‘Anyone can set a excessive goal with no plan to get there’
The minister for local weather change and power, Chris Bowen, appeared on ABC’s 7.30 final evening and was requested about calls by a high UN official for Australia to go “large” on its 2035 emissions discount goal.
Simon Stiell, who’s visiting a number of nations forward of the Cop30 local weather convention in Brazil in November, mentioned in a speech in Sydney on Monday the 2035 goal could be a defining second for Australia.
He urged the federal government to not decide a “bog-standard” quantity however to “go for what’s good by going large”.
Bowen mentioned:
We’ve a really rigorous course of [and] world’s finest observe for setting a local weather goal.
We agree a superb, robust goal is nice financial coverage and it additionally needs to be achievable, a goal we are able to set out and obtain. Anyone can set a excessive goal with no plan to get there. That’s not the strategy our authorities has taken and never the strategy we’ll take sooner or later.
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Up to date at 17.22 EDT
Only one in seven Australians again Israel’s actions in Gaza, ballot reveals
Guardian Australia’s Important ballot is out this morning, and the highest line is the general public’s basic scepticism over whether or not they may ever see the US ship a nuclear submarine to the Australian navy.
However as all the time the ballot requested a variety of questions. Different attention-grabbing outcomes embody:
Solely 15% of Australians consider Israel is justified in persevering with its navy motion in Gaza. Some 41% of voters need Israel to completely withdraw its navy motion, whereas 25% need a short-term ceasefire.
31% of voters say Australia ought to contemplate levelling our personal tariffs on the US, whereas 45% say we must always prioritise staying on good phrases with Trump and preserve negotiating for exemptions.
You may learn the total story right here:
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Up to date at 17.48 EDT
Sarah Basford Canales
Extra from Sarah on final evening’s Senate movement.
Liberal frontbencher, Maria Kovacic, stood to talk in help of the movement, saying that whereas it was vital to guard kids from on-line hurt, “making certain each grownup logs into an account to browse the web is taking the esafety commissioner’s energy to a brand new degree, which should be debated and scrutinised additional”.
Corinne Mulholland, a newly elected Labor senator, questioned why senators could be in opposition to a regulation that “helps to forestall unlawful content material from spreading by proscribing entry to and the distribution of dangerous content material”.
To me, all of it makes simply frequent sense, so I’m unsure why it’s so controversial … Essentially the most ludicrous factor is losing our time within the Senate after we may be getting on with the actual enterprise of debating laws.
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Senate votes in opposition to search engine ID checks
Sarah Basford Canales
The Senate voted final evening to move an urgency movement in opposition to new guidelines requiring engines like google, similar to Google, to undertake consumer identification checks by the tip of the 12 months.
To refresh your reminiscence, the earlier parliament handed guidelines banning under-16s from many social media websites. Because of this, various platforms at the moment are required to confirm a consumer’s age by the tip of the 12 months with a federal authorities trial of age assurance techniques nonetheless underway.
Put ahead by United Australia Occasion senator Ralph Babet on Tuesday evening, the urgency movement learn:
“The necessity to recognise that the web search engine companies on-line security code, which requires age assurance measures for account holders of engines like google, should be amended because it represents one other layer of digital surveillance, dressed up as little one safety and raises many privateness points.”
It was supported by the Coalition, the Greens, One Nation and different crossbenchers – together with David Pocock, Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman – with solely Labor senators opposing it. The ultimate vote was 38 ayes and 25 noes.
UAP senator Ralph Babet put ahead the movement. {Photograph}: Mike Bowers/The GuardianShare
Up to date at 17.21 EDT
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Good morning and welcome to our dwell politics weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with the perfect of the in a single day tales earlier than Krishani Dhanji picks it up.
There was some night exercise within the Senate final evening as senators voted to move an urgency movement in opposition to guidelines requiring engines like google, similar to Google, to undertake consumer identification checks by the tip of the 12 months. Extra particulars developing.
Chris Bowen appeared on 7.30 final evening when he was grilled about local weather coverage but in addition concerning the UK authorities’s determination to carry an emergency cupboard assembly about Gaza. The power minister performed that query with a straight bat however the truth that the UK has introduced in a single day that it’s going to recognise Palestine except Isrel agrees a truce will enhance calls at this time for Australia to observe swimsuit. Extra developing.
Plus the most recent Important ballot reveals that hardly one in seven Australians again Israel’s navy motion in Gaza. Extra on that quickly too.
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