Communications Minister Anika Wells has stated the response from world leaders this week on the United Nations General Assembly has bolstered Australia’s social media ban for beneath 16s, with “international recognition of the harms that persons are experiencing on-line”.
Emma Mason (left) and Communications Minister Anika Wells in the course of the Protecting Children within the Digital Age occasion held at UN HQ in New York,Credit: Dominic Lorrimer
“I believe there’s a international recognition of the harms that persons are experiencing on-line, and significantly, our youngsters. This morning, at our occasion, we had the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the prime ministers of Greece, of Malta, the prime ministers of Fiji and Tonga, all be a part of Australia to say, we have to do issues like this.
“And they’re fastidiously watching us, and as we ship these legal guidelines come 10 December to see how they will comply with go well with,” Wells instructed Seven’s Sunrise this morning, talking from New York.
Wells additionally stated she had met a number of tech giants on her go to to the States this week. “I’ve met a number of, right here, tech giants whereas I’ve been right here in New York so that everyone can land this on 10 December,” she stated.
“This is what stands in Australia, and the world is following go well with.”
