by Debra | Feb 4, 2025 | TALKING POINT
Exemption for online gaming? CMA’s President, Prof. of Law, Elizabeth Handsley, queries the proposed exemption of online gaming in minimum age legislation for social media. The passage of the Australian minimum age legislation for social media is clearly cause for...
by Debra | Dec 3, 2024 | TALKING POINT
Social media at 16: Five common narratives that have left me bewildered CMA’s Vice President, Professor Wayne Warburton, School of Psychological Sciences, Macquarie University, was happy to see the passing of the bill which raised access to social media from 13 years...
by Debra | Nov 4, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Hon CEO Barbara Biggins, urges action on the Code of Practice for the Australian Commercial Television Industry (2015), which is, at long last, being reviewed The Code of Practice for the Australian Commercial television industry (2015) is, at long last, being...
by Debra | Oct 2, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s President, Prof. of Law, Elizabeth Handsley, discusses When is a blanket not a blanket? – and other frustrations of the social media debate Maybe I’m biased, but from where I stand, the relationship between children and social media is one of the major global...
by Debra | Sep 9, 2024 | TALKING POINT
‘Channel changes at the ABC: good for children?’ In June, the ABC introduced two new channels – ABC Family and ABC Entertains – and four new digital streams with the aim of bringing together “the best kids, family, and general entertainment titles”, and making it...
by Debra | Aug 5, 2024 | TALKING POINT
CMA’s Hon CEO Barbara Biggins poses, ‘Let’s not mention the classification – might spoil the fun?’ The movie Deadpool & Wolverine has had a huge amount of promotion worldwide over recent weeks. Ad week says Deadpool & Wolverine at $211m, now sixth highest...
