Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, a Commonwealth led approach will ensure that all children are better protected from online harms and ensure parents and carers are better supported. We also want to hold big tech to account, because platforms and online services have a responsibility for the safety of their users—and I hope this is something on which we can get agreement across this chamber.

As I said, we will work with the states and territories to get this right. We are also going to consider the results of the various measures Minister Rowland has put in place—the age-assurance trial and the Online Safety Act review. These measures have been welcomed by the eSafety Commissioner, and the trial in particular is testing different implementation approaches to help inform policy design. We want to work with experts, young people, advocates and parents through the trial because we want these laws to be effective, and we want to make sure that big tech plays its part in protecting users.