No matter where I go across my electorate of Corangamite, people are coming up to me and voicing their serious concerns about online safety. Whether they be parents, teachers or small-business owners, people are united in their view that social media has become the Wild West, with few constraints, and that the tenor of online debate is harmful, particularly for young people. It's why the Albanese government created a minimum age to have a social media account, and, so far, more than five million underage accounts have been deactivated, removed or restricted. As a result, YouGov has reported a nine per cent drop in online bullying, and exposure to inappropriate and violent content has fallen by 18 per cent.

This is welcome progress, but we know there's more to do—and that work is happening right now, with the debate underway on a digital duty of care bill. This bill is all about creating safety standards for the digital services we all use. It will force platforms to protect Australian children from harmful content and will ensure parents have the tools they need to keep their family safe online. For the first time ever, tech companies will need to do annual risk assessments of the harms their services can cause to Australians. They'll need to put systems in place to prevent risky features from causing harm, and, if they don't, they'll face serious penalties of up to $109 million.

That's significant, but so too are the provisions designed to tackle doomscrolling. We know doomscrolling causes real harm to young people. Locals tell me this all the time. Teachers speak to me about how young people are increasingly seeing more and more misogynistic and inappropriate content online. We know it's impacting their relationships with peers and, at times, their mental health, which is just so heartbreaking and so concerning. It's why we're backing the My Feed, My Way approach as part of our bill. It'll give Australians a choice. They can either opt in to the algorithm, or choose to only see content from accounts they follow. Social media platforms make significant profit from using the information of its users, so it's only fair that they give Australians some choice and follow the same basic rules as every other industry.

The bill also puts a stop to nudify apps. That means we're giving the eSafety Commissioner take-down powers to remove platforms that allow for generation of deepfake AI-generated nude images.

In closing, the bill in the House responds to so many of the concerns I've been hearing right across my electorate. I call on the parliament to unite in support of the digital duty of care bill. It's good for children, teachers and parents, and it's good for all Australians. It's about time that social media platforms are no longer the Wild West.