Television interview - ABC Afternoon Briefing

Television interview - ABC Afternoon Briefing Suzana Cameron Tue, 13/10/2026 - 07:45 PATRICIA KARVELAS, HOST: I want to bring in my political panel to understand the first day back of Parliament. Patrick Gorman is the Assistant Employment Minister. Garth Hamilton is the Shadow Assistant Minister for Energy Security. Welcome to both of you. PATRICK GORMAN, ASSISTANT MINISTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER: Good to be here. KARVELAS : All right, starting on Digital Duty of Care, the Government has removed one of the biggest parts that your side of politics was complaining about, and that's the Minister having the right to decide big areas that should be essentially prohibited. That's now not there. The whole Parliament gets to decide. Isn't that better? And why won't you support it? GARTH HAMILTON, SHADOW ASSISTANT MINISTER FOR ENERGY SECURITY: I think that's a very good step and that shows that there's a sensible and open approach by the Government on this, I hope that will continue. I'll be honest, I don't have great faith in social media companies. I don't think many people do. I think we do want to see our kids protected. But I think there's further steps need to be taken, one of which is

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