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Australian senate endorses news media bargaining
code
Latest approval takes bargaining code between news media
companies and Google and Facebook a step closer to law.
Australia s controversial and internationally debated News
Media Bargaining Code is a step closer to being enacted into
legislation following the Senate s decision to pass the Media
and Digital Platforms Mandatory Bargaining Code Bill
2020
.(12 February 2021).
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Government moving in the right direction on Federal
Judicial Commission
The Law Council of Australia has long advocated for the
establishment of a standalone Federal Judicial Commission and
considers the government is moving in the right direction by
Crime by NATASHA BITA
Premium Content  One in five Australian screenagers has been sent unwanted violent or pornographic material, as cyber creeps target kids online through gaming and social media. One in three teenagers experienced unwanted contact with a stranger through online games, social media or email and messaging services in 2020, alarming new data from the federal government s eSafety Commissioner reveals. Police have caught   The eSafety Commissioner has warned that paedophiles are increasingly targeting children online, as cooped-up kids and screenagers spend an average of 14 hours a week in front of screens. Sometimes very aggressive requests for nudes can be made quite suddenly, right through to very sophisticated long-term grooming efforts, the head of e-safety investigations Toby Dagg said yesterday.