‘Baffling’: David Coleman on Labor’s ‘delay’ in implementing age verification

Shadow Communications Minister David Coleman says the government’s “delay” in funding age verification to protect children from harmful content is “baffling”. The Albanese government has promised to deliver a range of new measures to tackle factors that increase violence against women. The measures include $6.5 million of additional funding for the eSafety Commissioner to pilot age verification to protect children from adult content. “In terms of why the delay, I don’t know, and you’d have to address that to the government,” Mr Coleman told Sky News Australia. “It is baffling to be frank.”