Australia’s online safety laws have fallen well behind leading global efforts and key parts of the legislation are no longer fit for purpose, an expedited review has found, heaping pressure on the Albanese government to act.
The review, tabled on Tuesday, calls for a digital duty of care that encompasses due diligence to replace industry-led online safety settings that “are not good enough to address the volume of online harm that is occurring”.
The government, which has had the review since October, has already committed to a digital duty of care but is yet to legislate it or respond to the review’s other recommendations like multi-billion-dollar fines, a beefed-up regulator and a licensing scheme for online platforms.
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