00:00With our digital duty of care, we are taking the next step forward by requiring tech companies to take responsibility
00:08for the harms that their products, tools and features are causing Australians.
00:14The same way that we have safety standards for cars, for food, for appliances, Australia is setting basic safety standards
00:24for the online tools and online services within our digital duty of care.
00:29Tech companies can still move fast, but they will no longer be allowed to break things.
00:35Last year, Australia took world-leading action by banning children under the age of 16 from having social media accounts.
00:43Today in the Parliament, we're taking those laws further to ensure that they work as they intended.
00:50We took action because the community said enough was enough, and we would no longer let Australian kids be treated
00:58as commodities instead of children.
01:00Our action is working.
01:02More than 5 million accounts have been removed or deactivated.
01:06As we said when we announced the bipartisan support for this legislation, we knew that it wouldn't be perfect, but
01:14we wouldn't have let that be the enemy of the good.
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