Australia's internet watchdog has fined Telegram almost $1 million ($635,000 US) for a delay in reporting about terrorism and child abuse material. eSafety asked Telegram, along with other social ...

On November 28, the Australian Parliament passed a law to ban the use of social media by teens and children under 16 years of age. The Social Media Minimum Age bill has probably set a global precedent ...

SYDNEY, Australia — A court in Australia upheld an order on Friday for Elon Musk’s X to pay a fine of 610,500 Australian dollars ($418,000) for failing to cooperate with a regulator’s request for ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese acknowledged some young people were still on social media a day after a world-first ban on under-16s went live, saying the rollout was always going to be ...

COMMENTARY: The most recent attempt by an Australian government entity to enforce its rulings beyond national borders alarmed internet users worldwide and earned a rebuke from an Australian federal ...

The Australian E-safety Commission reported on Thursday that X Corp, formally Twitter, has laid off over 30 percent of its trust and safety staff. The organisation tasked with overseeing the internet ...

Australia, in keeping with its penal history, has a long record of paranoid officialdom and paternalistic wowsers. Be it perceived threats to morality, the tendency of the populace to be corrupted, ...