Labor to focus on online harms at national cabinet meeting on women’s safety as others call for further needs-based funding or bail reform
Following major rallies calling for action on violence against women, state and federal officials will meet in a snap national cabinet to discuss the issue.Following major rallies calling for action on violence against women, state and federal officials will meet in a snap national cabinet to discuss the issue.
On Tuesday the communications minister, Michelle Rowland, said Australians were “very frustrated” about social media algorithms serving up misogynist content to young people.She conceded the algorithms deciding what content was shown to users were “opaque”, and regulation had proved a challenge for governments worldwide, but said the government was “determined to make positive changes in this area”.
“We need to be very conscious about what is online and about the impact that it is having. Now that is something that is a role for government, but it’s also a role for public discourse,” Albanese told reporters in Brisbane. Albanese said he wouldn’t “preempt the discussion” tomorrow at national cabinet on wider domestic violence issues, but said any reforms would also require “attitudinal change” as well as “practical immediate measures and responses”.
Malinauskas has said that he discussed “sharing of intelligence about perpetrators across jurisdiction” with the prime minister as a potential outcome of Wednesday’s meeting.to the government asking for consideration of “immediate measures … within the justice system where bail laws and intervention orders are failing women”, including a national domestic violence register.
He told ABC Alice Springs the federal government had already provided $40m of additional funding, and noted that “some of the GST money” given by the federal “isn’t tied to anything”, meaning it could be spent by the NT government for that purpose.Despite the crossbench push for bail reform, it is considered an unlikely outcome of the meeting, given the experience in Victoria and warnings from experts that tougher rules had unintended consequences for women, children and Aboriginal people.
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