A month ago, Communications Minister Michelle Rowland said her proposed changes to social media laws would help parents decide what they should allow their kids to do. The new rules would “help signal a set of normative values that supports parents”.

Last week, making the case for those laws, Anthony Albanese conceded they wouldn’t work every time. “It’s like the ban on buying alcohol for under-18s – this weekend chances are there’ll be someone under-18 … who will get access to alcohol. That doesn’t mean that society doesn’t show its values by having that law in place.”

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