Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

We have, in our May budget, funded the trial of age verification technology to make sure that we actually get this right. You need to trial the technology. This is something that has been a scourge of young people, in particular, throughout the Western world. It is something that governments are grappling with throughout the Western world. We know that too often social media isn't social at all. This is about giving children a childhood and giving parents peace of mind. I want young Australians to grow up playing outside with their friends—off their phones and onto the footy fields and the netball courts. That's what I want, and that's what parents want as well. I find it extraordinary that those opposite come in here on an issue like this and seek to yell and rant angrily, but that characterises everything they're about.

When it comes to detail from an opposition that wants nuclear reactors around Australia, with no costings and no plan for how they would occur, just saying that they will be—

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