{"id":1018954,"date":"2026-07-04T09:16:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018954"},"modified":"2026-07-04T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:10:42","slug":"australia-delays-debate-on-tougher-child-social-media-ban-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/04\/australia-delays-debate-on-tougher-child-social-media-ban-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia delays debate on tougher child social media ban rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Senate has delayed voting on proposed changes to strengthen the country&#8217;s child social media ban, prompting criticism from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. <\/p>\n<p>The amendments would give the country&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner greater powers to demand internal documents and evidence from technology companies to ensure they are complying with the law that restricts social media access for children under the age of 16. <\/p>\n<p>The delay came after opposition parties and the Greens referred the proposed amendments to an eight-week Senate inquiry for further review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Senate has delayed voting on proposed changes to strengthen the country&#8217;s child social media ban, prompting criticism from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. The amendments would give the country&#8217;s eSafety Commissioner greater powers to demand internal documents and evidence from technology companies to ensure they are complying with the law that restricts social media access for children under the age of 16. The delay came after opposition parties and the Greens referred the proposed amendments to an eight-week Senate inquiry for further review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1018954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1018954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018976,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018954\/revisions\/1018976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}