00:00The evidence is not perfect, the evidence will never be perfect on this subject and that is because this is an effect that is happening right around the world at the same time, there is no control group, but countries are now acting, it's not only Australia, other countries are moving in this direction as well and I welcome this announcement today.
00:22There will be definitional decisions that she will need to make, so yes, fair enough, have a consultation to get to the definition of what are social media, what counts as an addictive compulsive design feature, although I'm not sure that was in her statement today.
00:3612-week consultation, fine, what I'm really troubled about though is the possibility that then the period after the consultation stretches as it sometimes does in an open-ended way and we do not get this action that we need, will she commit to a deadline after the close of the consultation?
00:52I've said before that patience isn't my greatest virtue, I do not intend the period before we publish the consultation or afterwards to be long in any way, shape and form, I want to have a clear position before the summer.
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