{"id":259625,"date":"2025-07-31T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259625"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:24:11","slug":"coalition-demands-investigation-into-australian-esafety-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=259625","title":{"rendered":"Coalition demands investigation into Australian eSafety Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>The Coalition has demanded an investigation into eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant after she proposed a radical regulation of search engines, which will impact every Australian.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shadow Minister for Communications Melissa McIntosh MP said the \u201cremit of the eSafety Commission without adequate safeguards is now in question\u201d after her latest push to regulate search engines.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cRequiring adults to log in to an account to browse the internet is taking the eSafety Commissioner&#8217;s power to a new level which needs to be scrutinised,\u201d Ms McIntosh said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Liberals have realised they are equally responsible for the Frankenstein&#8217;s monster they have co-created with Labor. The eSafety Commissioner is out of control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shut it down and scrap the age ban. Right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shut it down and scrap the age ban. Right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":259626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[13976,17422,14426],"class_list":["post-259625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-esafety-commissioner","tag-julie-inman-grant","tag-teen-social-media-ban"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259625"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259628,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259625\/revisions\/259628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/259626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}