
Chatbot therapy: can generative AI treat loneliness?
Researchers are creating artificially intelligent companions to help people get through challenges but that does not necessarily cut humans out of the picture.
Researchers are creating artificially intelligent companions to help people get through challenges but that does not necessarily cut humans out of the picture.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has revealed the hardship she experienced as an immigrant child after being honoured at the Asian Australian Leadership Awards.
Australians are able to disentangle how they feel about higher migration levels from their appreciation of diversity and multiculturalism, research suggests.
It is not just governments considering social media bans: a study shows more Australians plan to disconnect and spend less time online.
Prominent Australian children's entertainers are urging the federal government to pardon YouTube from its proposed social media ban to save an industry.
A lack of detail about proposed social media curbs is causing teens anxiety, young online safety and mental health representatives have told an inquiry.
Australian internet users will have their age tested before they can access some gaming and pornographic websites under wide-ranging online safety proposals.
Mental health experts don't support proposals to ban children from accessing social media and are warning it could have unintended consequences.
No child should be allowed to access social media networks in Australia, an inquiry has heard, and parents would also benefit from a blanket ban.
American legal experts have taken the stand in Federal Court as lawyers for the social network known as X argue it should not have to pay Twitter's fines.
Youth Minister Anne Aly came the closest among federal ministers to compare treating family violence offenders like terrorism suspects.
For many of the 125,000 Australian children without stable housing, a life of disadvantage, crime and poor health outcomes await without intervention.
Lawmakers and experts in child protection policies are expected to appear at a federal social media inquiry following controversial claims by Meta.
A $6.5 million age-assurance technology trial will test whether it can prevent teens accessing social networks and whether adults are willing to use it.
Child safety advocates have called for greater online privacy protections after Human Rights Watch identified photos of young Australians in an AI dataset.
Laws that would force Facebook to show and pay for Australian news, as well as tax changes, are being considered by the government, an inquiry has revealed.
Academics at six universities are teaming up to create a national body to investigate online misinformation, social media risks and missing regulations.
Electronic monitors will alert police if teenagers charged with serious crimes don't follow their bail conditions as part of a new trial in Victoria.
The social services minister says there needs to be stronger sexual consent education and she will work with universities to reduce on-campus assaults.
Queensland will move to decriminalise drug possession with police to refer people caught with illicit substances or utensils to diversion programs.
Independent senator David Pocock is pushing for social media advertising reform on gambling, alcohol and unhealthy food products.
The government has announced additional funding for safe places for women and children leaving violent situations, but the Greens say it is not close to enough.
A Queensland inquiry says the state should consider laws to make it quicker to assess Indigenous people applying to work with children.