This backgrounder provides an overview of the Australian government’s approach to online safety for children and outlines a sample of children’s online safety measures in other jurisdictions.

The survey findings presented in this report demonstrate there is an urgent need for more media literacy educational resources and support to address the media interests, needs, deficiencies and concerns of adult Australians.

This submission proposes the need for a risk-based regulatory approach to protect people from the insidious harm caused by big tech platforms, based on the following principles: duty of care, risk assessment, risk mitigation, transparency measures and accountability measures.

This paper reports on the results of a survey of Australian voters on digital regulation. Findings indicated Australians are significantly anxious about a range of privacy and data protection issues and strongly support reforms to strengthen tech regulation.

This statement argues age-based social media bans are unlikely to be effective and that it is important that policymakers, social media platforms and mental health organisations work together to develop evidence-based solutions to ensure that young people are safe online.