Bill
Online Safety Amendment (Protecting Australian Children from Online Harm) Bill 2023
lapsed, as at 2024-08-13.
- Sponsor
- David Coleman
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-11-27
- second reading — 2023-11-27
- other — 2024-08-13
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-11-27.
The bill would require the federal minister for online safety to run a test of tools that check how old a user is.
The test would follow a plan the eSafety Commissioner published in August 2023 for stopping children from seeing harmful material online.
The government had earlier rejected the idea of a test and instead wanted industry rules, but the Coalition supports the trial this bill would start.
- Requires the minister to conduct an age verification trial.
- Aligns the trial with the eSafety Commissioner's August 2023 Roadmap.
- Responds to a referral from the former Coalition Government after the 2020 Protecting the Age of Innocence report.
The minister, the eSafety Commissioner, and children who might be protected from online harms such as pornography.
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