Taylor says ‘no plan’ to carve up seats with One Nation

Opposition leader Angus Taylor said there are no plans to carve up seats as part of some sort of negotiation with a surging One Nation.

Taylor spoke to ABC News Breakfast amid the reports:

No, there’s no plan to carve up seats. We won’t be doing that. … What we will be doing is focusing on a Labor government that’s taking this country in the wrong direction with higher taxes, with less houses, with immigration that has not been in line with our housing supply and with an energy system that is broken.

And that will be our focus. It won’t be carving up seats.

There had been no discernible drop in reports of online harm such as cyberbullying and image-based abuse from under-16s, according to the latest report from eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant in March.

Nevertheless, Bianca Quetti, a mother of teenage children, supports the ban.

My kids were 16 already when it came in … I’m not sure what other parents are thinking, but I would presume most would like it.

I mean, there’s probably a way around it, I’m sure they’ve all got a way around it. I think it’s not a bad thing.

Her 16-year-old daughter Taylah narrowly avoided the ban and said there was a lot on the internet she didn’t think young people should be seeing.

But she said not much had changed with the social media accounts of people at her school who should have been impacted by the ban.

“I don’t know if it’s really working that much … most of their accounts didn’t even get banned, so they’re still allowed on there,” she told AAP.

Jury still out on early impacts of child social media ban

A non-profit organisation that runs a helpline for young people says there is little sign of a dip in cyberbullying or image-based abuse in the six months since teenagers under 16 have been banned from social media, Australian Associated Press reports.

But even without a clear fall in reports of online harm, the early results are not necessarily discouraging, experts say, as the nation remains at the front of efforts to restrict under-16 access to social media.

Call patterns remained largely unchanged since the ban was introduced, a helplines operator said.

Yourtown, a non-profit, operates Kids Helpline and virtual services manager Tony FitzGerald told AAP it was too early to gauge any real difference.

From speaking to young people, particularly in that 13-16 age group the experience for them has been very inconsistent.

Some of them have had social media cut-off, whereas [some] have not had any impact in terms of their access to those platforms. It’s been a bit messy for that group.

Despite this, young people are moving to other platforms such as WhatsApp, which aren’t subject to the social media ban, to interact.

“We’ve seen young people come to us who would say they’re being cyberbullied on messaging apps,” FitzGerald said.

There’s a whole range of other platforms that are out there that are not subject to the social media minimum age restrictions that young people still are interacting on and they’re still experiencing harm.

Good morning, it’s Nick Visser back on deck. Let’s get into it.