Half a year since Australia restricted social media companies from providing accounts to kids under 16, signs of success are ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says his government is giving priority to strengthening the world's first laws that ban children younger than 16 from social media platforms.

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australian government announced YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16-years-old from December, reversing a ...

Australia plans to double potential fines for social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, who fail to prevent ...

A new law banning kids from prominent social media sites took effect in Australia on Wednesday, teeing up a key test of one of the most far-reaching approaches to protecting children online. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Australian government announced two weeks ago that the three Meta platforms plus Snapchat, TikTok, X and YouTube must take ...

It all started at an under 8s girls' soccer game. As a newly initiated sports parent, I raised my eyebrows as a male coach across the field was screaming at his players. The seven-year-old players in ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese welcomed a world-first social media ban for children younger than 16 that took effect Wednesday as families taking back power ...

What has made Australian children's television distinctive over the decades? Why do adults use digital platforms to engage with shows from their childhood? In what ways does local children's ...

Australian parents will be familiar with this school morning routine: hastily making sandwiches or squeezing leftovers into containers, grabbing a snack from the cupboard and a piece of fruit from the ...

Children who were locked in Australia’s immigration detention centres in the past decade have high rates of mental health conditions, developmental concerns and nutritional deficiencies, according to ...