Australia's government carved out an exemption for YouTube when it passed laws banning social media access for children under 16, but some mental health and extremism experts say the video-sharing ...

The powerful regulator lobbying Labor to ban kids from YouTube has used the same platform to publish a series of children’s ...

A law that restricts social media use to people 16 and over goes into effect in December, but much about it remains unclear ...

Google has put its Australian YouTubers on notice: a hike in the minimum age to access social media could hurt your channel ...

Communications Minister Anika Wells has refused to reveal which TikTok-aligned lobbyists met her staff at a secret introductory meeting and whether they pressured Labor to ban YouTube for kids.

Australia's internet watchdog and YouTube exchanged barbs on Tuesday after the regulator urged the government to reverse a planned exemption for the Alphabet-owned video-sharing platform from its ...

Two years ago, Australian YouTube stars Danny and Michael Philippou triumphantly moved to filmmaking with their horror hit Talk to Me. Now, another Australian YouTuber, Michael Shanks, is ...

He says Australia’s 2022 election YouTube advertisements followed UK politics’ approach, where television ads were reused on YouTube to try to reach people who weren’t watching TV.

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