Queensland Premier joins calls for social media to be age-restricted

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Queensland Premier Steven Miles says social media should be age-restricted. Social media use has sparked a "public health problem" in Queensland, with authorities linking it to an alarming number of teenagers being hospitalised.

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00:00 Should social media be age restricted for teenagers?

00:04 Queensland Premier Stephen Miles has joined calls for social media use to be limited in teenagers

00:10 and says it has sparked a public health problem in Queensland

00:14 with authorities linking it to an alarming number of teenagers being hospitalised.

00:19 We're seeing increasing evidence that depression and self-harm is more prevalent

00:26 because of social media and I think this is really important.

00:31 As a parent I know how difficult it can be.

00:33 I have struggled at different times without children's use of social media

00:37 and certainly with the problems.

00:39 More guidance, better guidance from people with access to the evidence

00:43 about when and how social media should be used.

00:47 [no dialogue]

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