Government ‘determined’ to make social media safer

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland says the Albanese government is “determined” to make the internet and social media safer. During the federal budget, the government announced $6 million for a trial of age verification technology for internet use. “We know that this is part of the embedded life of these young people now,” Ms Rowland said. “The consensus is, it does have positives, it does have negatives; the key issue here for government is to ensure that we strike that right balance, that its evidence-based and that’s its effective.”