The Prime Minister in Sydney has revealed he will make another attempt at passing his anti-trolling laws and will press technology manufacturers to make parental controls stronger and easier to find.
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The Coalition's next phase of its online safety policy will kick off with threatening smartphone manufacturers such as Apple, Samsung and Google to make it easier to turn on parental controls and guarantee a minimum standard for those controls.
"I'm putting a time limit on it - I want this done in 12 months on the other side of the election. If the companies won't do it, we will make them do it," Scott Morrison said.
He also threatening social media companies to do more to tackle online bullying or be accountable. The tech giants had tried to "stare down" and use their international reach to pressure Australia before, he said.
"I've stared them down and they know I am very serious when it comes to protecting Australians and particularly young Australians online."
The government will also promote online safety in schools and multicultural communities, and provide more resources to the eSafety commissioner.
"Many schools are just not equipped to deal with cyber bullies, and that's not their fault - it's a complex and weird world to operate in," Mr Morrison said.
"As a parent, Jenny and I know your kids are ahead of you when it comes to dealing with technology. They know how to get around all the other things. That's just real life and we live it just like everyone else does, and what we want is safety by design."
The policy reveal came as the Prime Minister attended a mental health event hosted by an anti-suicide organisation batyr in Sydney where he met with young people.
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The government hastily introduced social media reforms to parliament earlier this year that would force online platforms to comply with requests to identify users who bully or defame others, but the legislation was never brought forward for a vote.
The proposed laws were panned by legal experts including the Law Council and the government's own hand-picked eSafety commissioner, Julie Inman Grant as an "oversimplification of very complex technical and legal challenges".
But a parliamentary report completed in March found technology companies need to better regulate online abuse to protect democracy.
Anonymity of users and encryption-based privacy were core concerns where the legislation challenged the expectations of the online community. The Home Affairs department found the companies had "demonstrated that their priority was privacy rather than harm mitigation" when it came to encryption.