Communications minister Anika Wells points to media reports alleging children can access spaces meant for adults which include explicit sexual content ...

Children under the age of 16 in Australia are no longer allowed to have social media accounts. The Australian government says ...

The federal government has released the model for its Thriving Kids program, aimed at setting up services and supports run by states and territories outside the NDIS.

Australian children are spending more time on Roblox than those in any other country, according to new data that also shows ...

Spain joins a growing list of countries, like Australia and France, that have moved to curb kids’ social media access.

The Australian communications minister has demanded Roblox respond to concerns "regarding the exploitation of children ...

Minister Anika Wells wrote to US-based Roblox requesting an urgent meeting over "graphic and gratuitous user-generated content".

For years, governments have relied largely on platform-led safety tools to manage children’s use of social media. That ...

Australia's social media ban for children under 16 will come into effect this Wednesday, Dec. 10. Platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube have already begun disabling users' ...

(Bloomberg) -- Young teenagers in Australia have been barred from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok in one of the toughest crackdowns on digital platforms in the democratic ...

To celebrate the start of a nationwide ban on social media for kids under the age of 16, the Australian government lit the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the slogan Let Them Be Kids. As of December 10, ...

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, Snapchat, Threads, Twitch, X and Kick are the 10 platforms banned for kids in Australia Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working ...