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Bring it on: Safety chief ready for big tech blowback on age limit

Australia’s online safety chief has warned tech giants she’s ready for legal battles as she unveils guidelines for keeping under-16s off social media platforms.

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Kids will get around ban? Well, duh. Here’s why it still matters

Would the same nay-sayers scoffing at our social media age limit think there is no need to have an age limit for consuming alcohol, asks the editor.

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Revealed: Latest platforms targeted by our world-leading age limits

Reddit and Kick will join major social platforms in barring under-16s as Australia introduces world-first online safety laws.

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Renowned child safety advocate Jonathan Haidt believes Australia’s world-leading social media age laws are the biggest step ever taken to protect children and will set the world on course to win the fight against tech giants causing harm to kids.

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‘Biggest step ever’: How Aussie laws could protect kids everywhere

Australia’s new social media laws are being hailed globally at the UN with experts predicting a world-changing impact for children across the globe.

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Our Mac might still be here: Grieving dad’s message to PM

A man whose son died after online sextortion has told the Prime Minister his child might still be alive if Labor’s social media ban had happened sooner.

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Unit students told ‘take action’ after hack

Former and current students at a Sydney university have been urged to take action after revealing a horror amount of personal information was up for sale on the dark web.

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Positive education is growing in popularity again across Australia after Covid.

Aussie schools warned: ‘Don’t get left behind’ on positive education

In schools across the nation, a blend of psychological science and teaching pedagogy has slowly been turning teens’ mental health around – and it’s striking back against social media’s influence.

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Teachers are sharing their tales of stress and burnout on TikTok.

The one thing making Aussie teachers quit on social media

Teachers are turning to TikTok to share quitting and burnout stories. New research reveals there’s one main reason why so many are stressed – and it’s not the students.

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Creepy OnlyFans secret behind ‘innocent’ teen dance videos

To your 12-year-old daughter, they appear to be harmless dance videos on TikTok – but they’re actually a carefully choreographed pipeline to hardcore pornography on OnlyFans.

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Snapchat’s first-of-its-kind move as social media age limit looms

While experts brand it the most dangerous social platform, Snapchat has turned to Australian teenagers themselves to help solve its safety crisis.

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AI for dating advice? Experts call for urgent controls on new tech

Young people fear AI’s power but still turn to it for relationship advice, research shows. Experts say five big changes are essential to control the rapidly developing technology.

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More Deepfake school scandals exposed

More than 50 reports of deepfakes – where AI turns photos into pornographic images – can be revealed as school scandals rise. Can you spot one? See the video and expert advice for parents.

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TikTok screenshots of young people eating raw meet as part of a new social media craze.

TikTok trend taken to extremes – school intervenes after teen ate raw rabbit

The TikTok carnivore trend, which encourages people to eat nothing but raw meat and other animal parts, is being taken too far by some Aussie teens.

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Parenting expert Micah Boerma, and teenagers Frankie, Maeya and Hazel with their mobile phones. Picture: Tim Hunter.

Social media ban isn’t the end of the world: How to help teens cope

In just over three months, under-16s will wake to find their social media identities have been wiped out. A parenting expert says there are five ways families should prepare.

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