New limits: Gamechanging social media ban age checks coming
More than 1000 Australian schoolchildren will be recruited to trial identity verification technology that will be used to enforce new social media age restrictions. SEE HOW IT WILL WORK
Let Them Be Kids
Let Them Be Kids is a News Corp Australia campaign calling for children under 16 to be restricted from having social media accounts.
Principals empowered as $44m splashed on bullying crackdown
An extra $44m will be placed in the hands of principals to spend on therapists, teacher aides and specialist training to combat bullying.
Third Qld girl dies by suicide in past three months
A “beautiful and intelligent” 12-year-old girl who took her own life after relentless bullying online and at school has become the latest tragic addition to the state’s grim roll call.
Two-thirds of Australian adults support social media ban, according to new poll
Two-thirds of Aussie adults support the Albanese Government’s social media ban for kids under 16, but a new poll has laid bare how many are concerned kids will find a way around it.
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More than 20,000 Aussie schoolchildren are giving up social media for 24 hours today, as part of a national campaign to raise awareness of the dangers.
Mark Bouris reveals a Twitter stalker came to his house
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Premier unplugged: Mali set to suspend social media accounts
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Unplug24: How you can get involved
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