Another election fight over the environment looms as Climate 200 plans to fund independent candidates in targeted federal seats. Meanwhile, the fallout from the PwC tax scandal continues. Follow live here.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has pledged to introduce an age verification system on social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram within the first 100 days he is in office if he is to win government.Speaking Seven’s Sunrise, Dutton said the system would work through using technology to verify a users’ age.“It’s best to look at it from a parent’s perspective and parents want some rules in place,” he said.
”Dutton said to get this policy to work, he would not be intimidated by companies such as Elon Musk’s X.“We want the same rules and the same laws that apply in real life to apply online and I don’t think it’s good enough for us to say that we’ve got a massive spike in the number of mental health instances that these companies need to be pressures and if we do nothing, the red lines continue to be crossed,” he said.“I think we can work with the technology companies.
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