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  • Annie Wang, 14, poses after an interview discussing Australia’s social media ban for users under 16, which is scheduled to take effect on December 10, in Sydney, Australia, November 22, 2025.
    Hollie Adams/REUTERS
    It’s time to do as the Australians do and ban your kids from social media
  • Under the legislation, the onus is on social media platforms for keep children under 16 off.
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    Australian teens were kicked off social media this week. Some are back already
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    Australian skydiver’s parachute became caught on plane tail 15,000 feet in the air, video shows
  • A 7-year-old and an 11-year-old look at their iPad screen in Sydney, Australia, on December 7, 2025.
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    ‘What’s the worst thing that’s gonna happen?’ South Australia Premier says social media ban is about protecting children
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    Australia is banning young teens from social media. Could it happen in the US?
  • A security boat patrols behind Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (C) as he speaks during an official function to mark the start of Australia's social media reform at Kirrilbilli House in Sydney on December 10, 2025.
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    Australia has just relieved its anxiety over teens on social media – or has it?
  • A girl poses holding her phone after an interview discussing Australia's social media ban for users under 16, which is scheduled to take effect on December 10, in Sydney, Australia, on November 22, 2025.
    Hollie Adams/Reuters
    Millions of Australian children just lost access to social media. What’s happening and will it work?
  • From December 10, Australian children will be able to watch YouTube but they won't be allowed to open accounts.
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    What happens when you kick millions of teens off social media? Australia’s about to find out
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    Tourist dies after being bitten by shark in Australia
  • Two jars of Vegemite sit on the shelf in a store in Greenbushes in Western Australia on 18 September 2025.
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    Murderer sues for right to eat Vegemite in Australian prison

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  • A 7-year-old teenage boy looks at a phone screen in Sydney, Australia, on December 7, 2025.
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  • MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - MAY 18: McDonald's Fawkner is seen re-opened on May 18, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. McDonald's has closed 12 restaurants across Melbourne for deep cleaning after an external delivery driver tested positive for COVID-19.  The precautionary decision to close the stores was made after a truck driver delivering supplies to the restaurants while asymptomatic later tested positive for coronavirus. All staff have been asked to self isolate not to return to work for 14 days. The restaurant closures come after the closure of the Fawkner and Craigieburn McDonald's restaurants due to COVID-19 cluster outbreak last week. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images)
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    McDonald’s shortens breakfast time in Australia as bird flu causes egg shortage
  • Australia restricts vape sales to pharmacies in ‘world-leading’ move to cut nicotine use
  • Australia drops legal fight against X over church stabbing video
  • Qantas CEO: ‘We let our customers down’ on canceled flights scandal
  • China lifts ban on five Australian beef exporters

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    These Picasso pieces are on display in a ladies’ restroom inside a museum. Here’s why
  • Australia’s richest woman seeks removal of her portrait from exhibition
  • Vandals target ‘world’s oldest’ Chinese parade dragon in an Australian museum
  • Why the drag looks in ‘The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert’ are still iconic, 30 years on
  • Aboriginal spears returned to Australia after 250 years in ‘momentous occasion’
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