60 Minutes appears to be like to the push to ban social media for kids, and the tragedy of 12 12 months previous Charlotte O’Brien.
Charlotte’s Want
If the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has his approach, from the tip of subsequent 12 months youngsters below 16 can be banned from social media. That’s proper, for Australian youngsters, quickly there can be no extra entry to Fb, TikTok, Instagram and all these different addictive apps. Taking over the world’s tech giants is a daring transfer by the federal government, and there are legitimate questions on how such a ban is likely to be enforced. As Adam Hegarty studies, if anybody wants a compelling motive for pressing motion, they want solely know the confronting and tragic story of 12-year-old Charlotte O’Brien. She was a sufferer of merciless bullying, a lot of it delivered on-line, and it was her want that Australians perceive the reality: Social media can kill.
Reporter: Adam Hegarty
Producer: Anne Worthington
Sucked In
It’s hardly shocking, however as soon as once more Australians have been sucked in by the duplicity of “Massive Tobacco” and its apologists. When that business might now not lie concerning the lethal results of cigarettes, it promised to wash up its act. Its bosses began selling vaping as a straightforward help to stop smoking. However we now know that declare has turned out to be one other untruth. What vapes have actually performed is hook a brand new era – youngsters – on nicotine. After years of indifference, the federal authorities has lastly woken as much as the ruse by introducing powerful new legal guidelines making it unlawful to import or promote vapes. Nonetheless, in a joint investigation by 60 Minutes, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Eryk Bagshaw discovers Canberra’s crackdown on these merchandise may already be too late to be efficient.
Reporter: Eryk Bagshaw
Producer: Laura Sparkes
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