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Australia's online duty of care goes to inquiry

The Herald says Sarah Henderson wants the inquiry to report by 24 November, and Sarah Hanson-Young says the Greens are open to an inquiry that reports before the end of the year and want penalties for platforms.

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The Sydney Morning Herald says Labor's digital duty of care laws would let users turn off algorithm-driven feeds and sue platforms over harm, and that the Coalition and the Greens plan to send the bill to a Senate inquiry.

The Herald says Sarah Henderson wants the inquiry to report by 24 November, and Sarah Hanson-Young says the Greens are open to an inquiry that reports before the end of the year and want penalties for platforms. The Herald says the opposition's objection included a broad ministerial power to define online harm, and that Communications Minister Anika Wells has since walked that power back.

Australian Associated Press says the bill would require platforms to keep under-18s from harmful content and would add a my-feed measure so users can opt out of algorithm-driven feeds. AAP says the laws were amended to remove the communications minister's power to decide what counts as harmful content, that the opposition calls the bill fatally flawed, and that independents Monique Ryan and Zali Steggall support it.