Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator White. You're right. All week we have highlighted examples of the former government's deliberate design feature of funding cliffs throughout the budget. In my own portfolio of agriculture when it comes to biosecurity, emergency management, eSafety, My Health records—the list goes on and on where this government thought that miraculously the whole world would change on 1 July and important permanent functions were not going to need ongoing funding. This is another example of it.

The Albanese government is now undertaking the substantive work to ensure that the Online Safety Act is successfully implemented, together with the eSafety Commissioner. eSafety has been undertaking important work in relation to the basic online safety expectations outlined in the act. Recently they issued a second set of reporting notices to seven digital platforms on the steps they are taking to tackle online child sexual exploitation material. Every day there will be new challenges that emerge, and the Albanese government is committed to continuing the important work to make online activity safer. (Time expired)