00:00The Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, has made it clear that the onus would be on social
00:07media companies, not young users or their parents, and that's where the penalties would
00:12apply as well to social media companies rather than parents and users.
00:17Now, the driver behind this for the Prime Minister is that he says social media can
00:22cause harm to young people and he wants to look to eliminate that.
00:26Now, some of the details of the plan is that it won't be grandfathered, which does imply
00:32that if you're a young person on social media, say 13 or 14 at the moment, once this law
00:38becomes law in 12 months' time, which is the plan, then you will be banned from social
00:43media and the Prime Minister says there won't be exemptions.
00:47So even if your parents consent to you using social media, this law won't allow it.
00:53The onus will be on social media platforms to demonstrate they are taking reasonable
00:58steps to prevent access.
01:00The onus won't be on parents or young people.
01:03There will be no penalties for users.
01:06The East Safety Commissioner will provide oversight and enforcement.
01:10Now, the government has also been looking to trial some age assurance technology.
01:16So it's put $6.5 million towards that, it's put out a tender and we are expecting to find
01:23out in coming days which company will run that trial and exactly how it will work and
01:29the federal government says that will be used to sort of inform how this age restriction
01:35can be implemented to stop young people using social media.
01:40Now, another driver behind this is there's certainly been a big media campaign across
01:44newspapers and radio, as I said, because people have warned about the harms of social media.
01:52But it'll be interesting to see how kids react to this news today because we have also
01:57heard from some experts in this space that have previously said they didn't think the
02:02ban was the way to go and instead it was better to inform young people on sort of how to best
02:08navigate with the world online.
02:11So what will happen now is the Prime Minister will take this plan to National Cabinet tomorrow.
02:17He'll meet online with state and territory leaders and look to get some sort of uniformity
02:22across the country.
02:24Then later this month, the Prime Minister and the Communications Minister will look
02:28to introduce this legislation to Parliament.
02:30The plan is to make it law for 12 months' time, that's when it would be enforced, the
02:36PM says.
02:38And we have heard previously from the Coalition here in Canberra that it does want to see
02:42that age limit in place as well.
02:44It had been saying if a Dutton government is elected at the next election, it would
02:49enforce an age limit as a priority as well.
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