House of Representatives Chamber (part 2 of 2)
27 October 2026
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House of Representatives Australian Parliament
00:00 - 01:23
Speaker 1
scrolling for as long as possible. They are monetizing our attention. We are the product, not the customer. This bill shifts some of this control from the platform, not to the government, but back to the user. The bill doesn't make a single post unlawful.
What changes is how services are designed. Reducing this important piece of legislation to a scare campaign about censorship is exactly what the worst of these platforms want. They want users to defend their ability to design platforms to keep those users hooked and angry so the platforms can sell your attention to advertisers. Passing this bill is the start of the work, not the end of it. And I want to make three points about what comes next.
First, this bill will come down to compliance and enforcement. A duty of care is only as strong as the regulator that enforces it. The eSafety Commissioner will be asking some of the best-resourced companies in the world to explain their algorithms and their safety systems. Ensuring the Commissioner is well-funded and empowered is critical for the digital duty of care to succeed. Second, we should design more user empowerment tools, and we should design them with the people who use them.
I held a workshop on the digital duty of care with students from the University of Western Australia earlier this month, and the word that kept coming up was control.
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