Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026
Committee Information
The Environment and Communications Committees cover the following portfolios: Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, and Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts (Communications, Sport and the Arts functions only).
Legislation Membership
Considers bills referred by the Senate.
Chair Senator Varun Ghosh
Deputy Chair Senator Sarah Hanson-Young
Member Senator the Hon Carol Brown
Member Senator Dean Smith
References Membership
Considers all other matters referred by the Senate.
Deputy Chair Senator Varun Ghosh
Member Senator the Hon Carol Brown
Member Senator Ross Cadell
Member Senator Dean Smith
In the media (15)
Google Warns Australian Senate Gmail Could Need Age Checks Under Digital Duty of Care Bill Tech Times · 11 Nov 2026
Google Warns Australia's Digital Duty of Care Bill Puts Gmail Access for Under-18s at Risk gHacks · 9 Nov 2026
Australia's new Digital Duty of Care bill could block teens from Gmail, Google warns Gulf News · 9 Nov 2026
Big tech deactivates online queer safe spaces The Saturday Paper · 6 Nov 2026
Excluded, but not exempt: what the digital duty of care Bill means for media and entertainment Johnson Winter Slattery · 2 Nov 2026
The Digital Duty of Care bill reaches services that generate material using AI. That's the chatbot on your website. Here's what it would owe. Webcoda · 2 Nov 2026
‘Emotional intimacy’ from AI chatbots would be banned under Australia’s digital duty of care laws Guardian Australia · 28 Oct 2026
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Digital Duty of Care Bill passes House of Representatives, targeting serious online harm The Australia Today · 28 Oct 2026
Violi voices criticism towards Digital Duty of Care Bill, experts say he’s missing the point Ranges Trader Star Mail · 27 Oct 2026
Australia's digital duty-of-care bill clears lower house, heads to Senate MLex · 28 Oct 2026
Violi voices criticism towards Digital Duty of Care Bill, experts say he’s missing the point Mount Evelyn Star Mail · 26 Oct 2026
Violi voices criticism towards Digital Duty of Care Bill, experts say he’s missing the point Upper Yarra Star Mail · 24 Oct 2026
Whatever the problem, social media is the culprit, apparently Crikey · 23 Oct 2026
Antisemitism envoy calls for stronger digital duty of care bill J-Wire · 22 Oct 2026
The Digital Duty of Care: Albanese’s Sweeping Future Risk Online Content Control Regime Sydney Criminal Lawyers · 20 Oct 2026
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