Bill
Online Safety Amendment (Fix Our Feeds) Bill 2026
before parliament, as at 2026-04-01.
- Sponsor
- Hanson-Young
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2026-04-01
- second reading — 2026-04-01
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 2026-04-01.
The bill would require social media platforms to let users switch off algorithmic content recommendations at any time and impose a legal duty on large providers to keep their services safe.
It would amend the Online Safety Act 2021 to give the eSafety Commissioner powers to handle complaints about non-compliance and enforce obligations through civil penalties.
A large provider is defined as one with Australian users totalling more than 10% of the population, 2.6 million or more users, or 630,000 or more children, and the bill would start the day after royal assent.
- Requires social media services to offer users an opt-out from recommended content at any time.
- Creates a digital duty of care for large providers, including obligations to assess and mitigate risks, publish transparency reports, and notify the Commissioner of key personnel changes.
- Imposes civil penalties for non-compliance of the greater of 100,000 penalty units or 10% of annual turnover.
Providers of social media services and regulated online services, especially large providers with significant Australian user bases, and Australian end-users.
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