Labor government ‘taking a stand’ for online safety with social media bill

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says the Albanese government takes seriously its “obligation” to online safety and the reduction of harms facing Australians. Sky News can reveal Liberal Senator Alex Antic has told the Coalition party room he will cross the floor to oppose the social media ban bill. “We also want young people to imagine a world where social media does not have to constantly fuel their thoughts, drive their anxieties or determine their sense of fitting in,” Ms Rowland told Sky News Australia. “There are enough pressures already in the teenage years and the Albanese government is taking a stand to say that access to social media does not have to define connection in this country.”