1/ 🚨 Independent MP @zdaniel's Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2024 is the solution we need to tackle online harm. It holds platforms accountable for user safety—without compromising human rights. Here's why it’s better than banning teens from social media🧵 2/ The Duty of Care Bill enforces a systemic approach to online safety:
✅Platforms must assess & mitigate risks
✅Transparency is mandatory
✅Users' safety, privacy, & rights are prioritised
It’s a clear, rights-respecting response to the harms of social media.

🧵1/6 This is one of the most brazen Australian protest stories. In 1956, as the Olympic torch was making its way to Melbourne for the Games, a USyd student, Barry Larkin, pulled off a stunt that needs to be remembered in the annals of Aus sports & activism history. 🧵 2/6: Disguised as an official torchbearer, Larkin carried a fake Olympic flame through the streets of Sydney. His 'torch'? A painted chair leg topped with a tin can and a pair of burning undies!

EXPLAINER: Why people are worried about SA's new anti-protest laws, and why you should be too.
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👩🏾‍⚖️ What these laws do: they increase the penalties for "obstructing a public place" So let's start by defining what a public place is at law
#ProtectProtest #AusLaw #AusPol S4 Summary Offences Act SA defines it as:
👩🏾‍🦽A place to which free access is permitted to the public (like parks, civic squares etc.)
🎞️A place to which the public are admitted on payment of money (stadiums or cinemas etc)
🛣️ A road, street, footway etc.
legislation.sa.gov.au/lz?path=%2Fc%2…