Australian Common Law

Australian Teens Mourn Loss of Social Media

Australia social media watchdog sees common cause with US as age ban begins

The regulator overseeing Australia's world-first teenage social media ban rejected the "technological exceptionalism" championed by mostly U.S.-based platforms and said a groundswell of American paren...

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'This Is the End': Australian Teens Mourn Loss of Social Media as Ban Begins

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The countdown to the world’s first social media ban for children

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Australia Bans Teens From Social Media – Will Other Countries Follow?

The world’s first nationwide social media ban for children has swung into effect, with Australia becoming the first country to ban under-16s from accessing X, TikTok and other social networks.

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'This is the end': Australian teens mourn loss of social media as ban begins

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Kids locked out of social media apps after Australia's world-first ban

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Should the US adopt Australia’s social media ban for teens? Experts weigh in

In a recent study published in JAMA Network Open, researches found that as children, aged nine to 13, increased their daily social media use from an average of seven to 73 minutes over three years, th...

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Australia's social media ban is here, but what does it really mean?

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World Watches First Teen Social Media Ban Start in Australia

The Conversation

Why Australia won’t recognise Indigenous customary law

While the Australian Law Reform Commissions’s 1986 report on the use of customary law for Aboriginal people was a great initiative, it was, in hindsight, a notion well before its time. Although 30 years have elapsed since the report was published, its ...

Reuters

Factbox: At a glance - Australia's native title law

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than two centuries after the British colonization of Australia, the High Court of Australia decided in 1992 that the common law could recognize the land and water rights of Aboriginal peoples under traditional law ...

Wired

Australia's Encryption-Busting Law Could Impact Global Privacy

Australia's parliament passed controversial legislation on Thursday that will allow the country's intelligence and law enforcement agencies to demand access to end-to-end encrypted digital communications. This means that Australian authorities will be able ...

The Conversation

What does Australian law have to say about sovereign citizens and ‘pseudolaw’?

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. Armed with obscure legal jargon and ...