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Australia’s social media ban for minors: Has this worked elsewhere?

Multiple countries have tried but failed to effectively curb social media access. Will Australia’s attempt be different?

Al Jazeera · Sep 19, 2024

View from The Hill: Social media age ban all to the good, but can Albanese deliver before election?

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been late out of the blocks on a ban on children accessing social media. Now that he has promised to act, pledging to introduce legislation this year, the question is whether it will be passed before the election.

The Conversation · Sep 10, 2024

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Robert French on the realities of a social media age ban

The Albanese government has announced it will ban children from accessing social media. This follows work by the South Australian government, which commissioned a report on implementing a ban.

The Conversation · Sep 10, 2024

Thousands of LGBTQ+ Australians got a long-awaited apology – but many weren’t alive to receive it

Coming 40 years after NSW decriminalised homosexuality, it is a ‘bittersweet’ moment that has arrived too late for many

The Guardian - AU · Jun 5, 2024

Australians look set to vote against plan for Indigenous voice to parliament

Bruising referendum campaign over recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has shown racial divides

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2023

Retired Australian top judge and lawyers rebut opponents of Indigenous Voice

A former High Court chief justice and dozens of legal academics are rebutting key arguments used in the public campaign against Australians creating an advocacy body for the Indigenous population

The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2023

Top legal mind plays down voice legal-risk, power fears

There is little to no chance an Indigenous advisory body in the constitution will spur serious legal challenges, a former High Court chief justice says.

AAP · Oct 6, 2023

Former chief justice slams no campaign’s core argument against voice as ‘resentful’

In a National Press Club speech, Robert French also refutes common anti-voice argument that it will constrain executive decision-making

The Guardian - AU · Oct 5, 2023

'I quit college to live out my car - it's taught me more than school ever could'

Robert French swapped a college diploma for repairing hiking trails in Steamboat Springs, Colorado - saying the experience taught him 'more than school ever could'

Daily Mirror · Jun 2, 2023

Paul Bongiorno: King Charles’ coronation is a last hurrah for Australian monarchy

Central to the coronation will be the out of sight anointing of the King as God’s chosen, a medieval remnant of the Divine Right of Kings.

The New Daily · May 1, 2023