South Australian State Government announces funding for a program to further delay smart phone access to children

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Australian children banned from having social media accounts as world-first age limit laws take effect. The South Australian state government announced funding for a program to empower parents to delay smart phone access, with the aim of changing social norms for future generations.

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00:00Passing kids, a longer childhood.

00:06The Premier in the schoolyard playing up the benefits of living life smartphone free.

00:11We believe very firmly in the power and the value of young people enjoying the world around

00:16them.

00:17From tomorrow, under-sixteens will be banned from social media platforms including TikTok,

00:22Snapchat and Instagram.

00:24The government today committing more than $6 million for the Waitmate program, connecting

00:28parents who pledged to delay giving their kids smartphones until at least high school.

00:33The longer we hold fast together, the better the outcomes for our kids.

00:38The new opposition leader was also looking to the future, drawing election battle lines

00:42one day into her new role.

00:44Today we want to make a guarantee that taxes will always be lower under a Liberal government.

00:50Payroll tax hasn't moved, that threshold hasn't moved in that long, that at least a movement

00:55in that threshold I think is necessary.

00:57Ashton Hearn says she'll stick with some election commitments already made, like those in health,

01:02but others are being reviewed.

01:04Certainly when it comes to all of the economic levers, we'll be looking at those really closely.

01:09With the review underway, a big question is whether the new opposition leader will abandon

01:14a controversial plan to help first home buyers and downsizers by abolishing stamp duty, which

01:20generates more than $1.5 billion for the state's economy each year.

01:25With the plan, the Labor government has labelled reckless and dangerous.

01:29the腹 of the state's economy each year, very easily became known as theيرoth.

01:31Ashton Hearn says, there's no thought to be a contract, or the national campaign, which

01:34does not allow further orders for the future.

01:35Above all the general, the recent movement of the group must have been a fair client seat and

01:37other figures have been reviewed for the program.

01:37That's the number one, a few people will be looked at the number one.

01:39The personal movement of the community has been reviewed by the National Human Rights

01:40of the National Human Rights Association in the United States.

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