When 13-year-old Jasmine Elkin tried out the age-checking software Australia might use to ban children and teenagers from ...

If you’re looking for things to do in Queensland to add to your itinerary, you really are spoiled for choice. It’s a state ...

Youth crime waves aren’t new, but experts warn street violence has been gamified. And it’s escalating, with more teens from ...

If passed, the legislation would make New Zealand the second country in the world to implement such a measure, closely mirroring landmark laws passed by Australia in late 2024, which are due to ...

If you’ve given your kids a recent Android phone and they’re part of a family ... the addition will mean being able to map payment cards to a child’s phone all from Google’s Family Link, but only with ...

Instead, we focused on the disagreements they highlighted, using the framework to map out differing viewpoints. We focused on the Australian context. But similar social media bans have been ...

Kids in Australia routinely use social media apps and can bypass the age limit restrictions set by these platforms, suggests a report by the country’s online safety regulator on Thursday.

Unaffordable housing is stopping couples from having children, making Australia reliant upon high immigration to provide a tax base and support an ageing population, experts say. Australia's ...

In late November 2024, Australia implemented a ban on social media for kids under 16, one of the first laws of its kind. The ban does not go into effect until later this year, but it has already ...

It has 2.5 million users in Australia and New Zealand and lets parents keep track of their kids (and soon pets and elderly relatives) on a smartphone map. It has raised concerns about the over ...

is sometimes easier said than done), a growing number of lawmakers are taking matters into their own hands by passing legislation that seeks to keep kids off social media entirely. Australia made ...

And then News Corp, which is a very powerful force in the Australian media landscape, was running a campaign around keeping kids safe. And so there was huge political momentum. I think the Prime ...