Australia's unique move to restrict social media to people over 16 kicks in from December 10, in a bid to protect children ...

Julie Inman Grant, Australia's eSafety commissioner, pushed for it to be included in the country's social media ban ...

Google has strongly criticised Australia’s impending ban of under-16s holding social media accounts after its popular video ...

Australia has launched a multimillion-dollar national awareness campaign to promote an upcoming law that will ban social ...

Instagram and YouTube have announced the rollout less than two months before laws come into effect lifting the minimum age ...

Australia has picked a fight with the world’s largest video platform by backtracking on an earlier promise to exclude YouTube in its social media ban for children under 16. The Labor government said ...

SYDNEY: Australia's push to ban children from social media is "well intentioned" but will not make them safer online, video ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Alphabet-owned Google on Monday said it would be "extremely difficult" for Australia to enforce a law ...

The Australian government announced that YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16 years old from December, reversing a position taken months ...

YouTube has warned that Australia’s proposed ban on social media use by under-16s will be hard to enforce and may not achieve ...

SYDNEY, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Australia's government carved out an exemption for YouTube when it passed laws banning social media access for children under 16, but some mental health and extremism experts ...

The global conversation about how social media affects the mental health of children and teens is intensifying, yet Australia has taken a leading initiative by pushing stricter regulations. By adding ...