Within the single entity, the Chair of the ACMA and the eSafety Commissioner, could remain independent statutory officers, similar to the governance model included in the Exposure Draft of the Aged Care Act o powers and functions of providing a nationally coordinated approach to community awareness and education, and • offering the community a single reporting and help-seeking mechanism, available. [...] Are the current objects of the Act to improve and promote online safety for Australians sufficient or should they be expanded? The objects should be expanded to include objects of: • complying with Australia’s human rights obligations under: o the Convention on the Rights of the Child o the Convention of Persons with Disabilities o the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination A. [...] Relationships Australia recommends that the Act should impose on service providers a statutory duty of care9 framed with sufficient flexibility to take into account the relative capacities of the end user and service provider to identify, ameliorate and reduce the severity of harm inflicted by the materialisation of risks. [...] Are Australia’s penalties adequate and if not, what forms should they take? No, in light of the gravity of risks (especially to marginalised and excluded individuals and groups), the magnitude of harm that can be caused by materialisation of risk, the gross asymmetries of knowledge and power as between service providers and end users, and the commercial gains that have been made 9 by service provi. [...] In this regard, we draw to the Committee’s attention recommendations made in the Relationships Australia submission to the Department on 1 June 2023: Recommendation 3 That the new guidelines should provide that in-game purchases linked to elements of chance and simulated gambling are not permitted in respect of the G, PG, M and MA15+ classification categories.16 Recommendation 4 The Classification.
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