Ms ROWLAND (Greenway—Minister for Communications) (14:46): I thank the member for his question and his ongoing advocacy and support on this issue of national significance. Subject to passage in the Senate, we are on track this week to deliver world-leading reform in a novel and challenging space. The social media minimum age legislation will set in law the minimum age of 16 for young people to access social media. The Prime Minister stated his support for a minimum age earlier this year, and this sent a strong signal. The Albanese government is on the side of supporting parents and protecting young people. Our decision as a government to legislate and the fulfilment of our promise to introduce legislation this year was another important step forward. The national debate about this issue is right for our democracy, and it is clear that legislating a minimum age for social media widely reflects the views of our community. We are making significant progress against the markers set by Australians, and the latest YouGov data shows that we're on the right path. Seventy-seven per cent of Australians surveyed support our legislation setting a minimum age of 16 for social media. The parliament is making progress. Furthermore, 75 per cent of Australians surveyed support our digital duty of care and 87 per cent of Australians surveyed want stronger penalties for social media companies that breach our laws. The bill before parliament reflects this community expectation. It will strengthen penalties for systemic breaches of codes to bring them in line with penalties for privacy or consumer breaches, which are set at $50 million. Once passed, this legislation will sit within the broader suite of deliverables in the Albanese government's online safety agenda. We brought forward the review of the Online Safety Act by 12 months to ensure it was fit for purpose and to respond to new and emerging harms. The digital duty of care is a significant step in response to the excellent work by Delia Rickard. We quadrupled ongoing base funding for eSafety to ensure they are equipped to do their important work. We established the inquiry into social media and its impacts on Australian society, and that's made a number of important recommendations that go to the government's principle that online safety is not a set-and-forget space. We are undertaking an age-assurance trial, which will inform the types of technology the platforms can consider applying to ensure a social media account creator is at least 16 years old. These online safety reforms are a matter of national priority, and I thank everyone who has contributed to the debate. I acknowledge our state and territory leaders, who have engaged constructively through the National Cabinet to deliver this outcome. The premiers of New South Wales and South Australia have been instrumental in this regard. I urge, as I hope do all members here, our Senate colleagues to seek prompt passage of this reform to allow the Albanese government's important work to continue.