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Digital Duty of Care Bill
The bill requires online services to protect children from digital harms including those involving artificial intelligence.
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Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026
The bill imposes a digital duty of care on online services that generate material using artificial intelligence.
Act No. 83, 2026
Online Safety Amendment (Strengthening Enforcement for the Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2026
Doubles the maximum civil penalties for breaching the social media minimum age obligations and expands the eSafety Commissioner's powers to obtain compliance information.
Act No. 127, 2024
Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Act 2024
Amends the Online Safety Act 2021 to require providers of age-restricted social media platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent children under 16 from having accounts.
Act No. 15, 2025
Scams Prevention Framework Act 2025
Amends the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to create a Scams Prevention Framework imposing scam prevention, detection, reporting and response obligations on designated sectors such as banks, telecommunications and digital platforms.
Children's Online Privacy Code
A binding privacy code being developed by the OAIC under the Privacy Act, as required by the 2024 amendments, to set how online services likely to be accessed by children handle their personal information.
Act No. 98, 2024
Cyber Security Act 2024
Sets security standards for smart devices, requires certain businesses to report ransomware payments, limits use of incident information shared with the government, and creates a Cyber Incident Review Board.
F2025L00889
Online Safety (Age-Restricted Social Media Platforms) Rules 2025
Specifies classes of services, such as messaging, online gaming, professional networking, education and health services, that are excluded from Australia's social media minimum age obligation.
F2025L00276
Cyber Security (Security Standards for Smart Devices) Rules 2025
Sets mandatory security standards under the Cyber Security Act 2024 for consumer internet-connected devices, including rules against universal default passwords.
National AI Plan
Sets out the Australian Government's plan to build AI capability and infrastructure, spread the benefits of AI, and keep Australians safe, including establishing an AI Safety Institute.
Act No. 128, 2024
Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024
Amends the Privacy Act 1988 to require a Children's Online Privacy Code, add transparency duties for automated decisions, create a statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy and a criminal offence for doxxing.
Act No. 78, 2024
Criminal Code Amendment (Deepfake Sexual Material) Act 2024
Creates Commonwealth offences for transmitting sexual material depicting adults without consent, including material created or altered with AI or other technology.