Age Verification

Age Verification Campaign

Children are being exposed to pornography at alarming rates. Children's exposure to pornography has been deemed a public health crisis. Collective Shout has been campaigning for the Australian government to implement age verification for years. We will not stop!

Social Media Age of Access. Facts.

Social Media Age of Access. Facts.

There are a few claims being made - even on our socials - that are critical of the Government's Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum...

Why Australia is Setting a Minimum Age of 16 for Creating Social Media Accounts

Why Australia is Setting a Minimum Age of 16 for Creating Social Media Accounts

‘Australia’s social media age minimum will reduce the online harms that are affecting young people…And it will stop social media companies from continuing to use...

Don’t leave kids to defend themselves: Social Media Report cites our evidence

Don’t leave kids to defend themselves: Social Media Report cites our evidence

Children should not be required to build capacity to keep themselves safe: Committee recommendations draw from our evidence Collective Shout welcomes the final report of...

Hold social media platforms to account: MTR addresses Fed inquiry

Hold social media platforms to account: MTR addresses Fed inquiry

Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist addressed the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society this week, arguing in support of age verification for...

Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist in the media re age assurance for porn sites

Movement Director Melinda Tankard Reist in the media re age assurance for porn sites

Age assurance technology could help enforce raising the age of social media access from 13 to 16 Collective Shout movement director Melinda Tankard Reist, who...

Our campaign for age verification in the media

Urgent calls for age restrictions to online porn: Our AV campaign in the media

For more than 10 years we have been campaigning for politicians to take serious action regarding young people's exposure to pornography. We had a big win...

WIN! Gov announces commitment to age verification trial

WIN! Gov announces commitment to age verification trial

For over a decade we have been campaigning and asking you, our supporters, to take action. We had a big win this week with the Federal...

 Media Release: More sexual abuse, harassment and violence against women if Government refuses to act on age verification

Media Release: More sexual abuse, harassment and violence against women if Government refuses to act on age verification

Emergency national cabinet meeting tomorrow must address porn as a driver of violence  In response to a rising tide of violence against women – including...


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  • Coralie Alison
    published this page in Campaigns 2023-09-04 13:28:31 +1000

You can defend their right to childhood

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