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“The Australia government was the first to ban social media for children under 16 in 2025, but eSafety Commission data shows 42 per cent of children aged 10 to 15 still have a social media account.”

“The teen social media ban has robbed Australia’s youth of a key form of political communication, leaving them to “shout their views on a street corner”, US-based platform Reddit has argued in the nation’s highest court.”

“Such rubbish certainly still exists on social media, but not from public figures this time around – an important temporal distinction when citing degraded digital forums as evidence of cultural rot.”

“It makes a nice change to the rhetoric and falsehoods blanketing the airwaves and social media.”

“Although many remain in the workforce seeking purpose and social connection, the underlying driver for most is just to pay the bills.”

“In Australia Post’s accompanying consumer survey, 60 per cent of shoppers said they use social media to discover products, and one in two had bought something after seeing it there.”

“Pretty much ever since he arrived here in 1989 after his family fled the communist Soviet Union for Australia, the land of bananas and pineapples, which a six-year-old kid in the old Soviet Union had never seen before.”

“Social media and e-commerce have rewired how retailers need to reach customers.”

“In the 1980s, the Australian settlement team, including my father, took in artists from Romania, refugees from Vietnam and an eccentric band of migrants from Poland.”

“For instance, Social Protect, an Australian-founded software app, uses AI to detect and delete abusive, racist or sexual comments on social media posts (just in time for AI to generate more abusive, racist, or sexual comments.”

“In September the EU announced a plan to restrict social media access for under 15 year-olds across its member states, following last year’s Australian move to ban children under 16 from having social media accounts.”

“Chui has opened half a dozen venues under his Urban Agency banner, including the Hong Kong-style Kowloon Cafe and the modern Australian-adjacent Touch Wood at the Sydney Fish Market.”

“Albanese also visited Apple’s headquarters to spruik Australia’s under 16 social media ban.”

“The prime minister had travelled to the heart of Silicon Valley to meet Tim Cook – or, as Donald Trump once called him, “Tim Apple” – and spruik Australia’s world-leading crackdown on social media for under-16s.”

“Social media companies could be slugged with fines of more than $100 million if they fail to do more to keep under-16s off their sites under an Albanese government bill set to go before the Senate on Tuesday.”

“On June 12, 2025, Choice reported that 16 out of 20 Australian sunscreens failed to meet their SPF claims of 50 or more, implicating plenty of household names including Banana Boat, Invisible Zinc, Neutrogena and the Cancer Council.”