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The Federal Government has proposed new Digital Duty of Care laws, but experts and community organisations have warned they should be strengthened to allow Australians harmed by illegal and dangerous online content to take action to enforce the Duty of Care. Under the current plan, eSafety, the regulator, will have a monopoly on enforcement. The regulator receives more than 100,000 complaints a year and is only able to take action for a tiny percentage of that number. Meanwhile, polling shows that Australians want much stronger protections than those proposed by the Prime Minister.

In this webinar, Sarah Hanson-Young, Greens Senator for South Australia, Lizzie O’Shea, Founder & Chair of Digital Rights Watch and Josh Bornstein, Director of Corporate Regulation at The Australia Institute, discuss whether Big Tech is being held accountable, what Australians need from stronger online safety laws, and what an effective Digital Duty of Care looks like.

SPEAKERS:

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young — Greens Senator for South Australia, Greens spokesperson for Communications

Senator Sarah Hanson-Young is a leading Australian Greens politician and advocate for climate action, environmental protection, human rights, gender equality and media reform. Representing South Australia, she has served in Parliament for 18 years and is the Greens’ Manager of Business and spokesperson for Environment and Water, Media and Communications, and the Arts.

She has championed stronger environmental laws, biodiversity protection, threatened species recovery and an end to native forest logging. She has also advocated for media reform, greater accountability for big tech, and increased support for Australia’s creative industries.

Lizzie O’Shea — Founder & Chair, Digital Rights Watch

Lizzie O’Shea is a founder and the chair of Digital Rights Watch. She is also a lawyer who sues tech companies who do the wrong thing. She is the author of Future Histories, which looks at social movements and thinkers from the past and applies them to debates we have about technology today.

Josh Bornstein — Director of Corporate Regulation, The Australia Institute

Josh Bornstein is the Director of Corporate Regulation at The Australia Institute. Prior to joining the Australia Institute, Josh was an award-winning lawyer, leading the employment and industrial relations team at Maurice Blackburn for 29 years. In that role he sued many badly behaved corporations.

He is an honorary adjunct associate professor at UTS and a member of a statutory disciplinary tribunal. He is also the author of ‘Working for the Brand: how corporations are destroying free speech’, published by Scribe. His articles and essays have appeared in most major Australian media outlets.