UN Charter<\/a> and the sovereignty of all States,” he said.<\/p>\n“We will amplify the voices of small States and middle powers to ensure a wider range of perspectives shape the Council’s decisions.”<\/p>\n
The Australian premier noted that the world is rapidly changing and new issues – including climate change, emerging technologies such as AI, and the breakdown of trust, civility and social cohesion – demand the full attention of the international community.<\/p>\n
He also emphasized the need to “embrace” change and reform multilateralism.<\/p>\n
Cooperation, not coercion <\/p>\n
“As a middle power, Australia is showing leadership and working with others on fresh ideas to tackle the big issues now facing the world in our region,” the Prime Minister said.<\/p>\n
He highlighted how his Government is “elevating relationships that help to build sovereign capability and offer nations sovereign choice free from coercion”.<\/p>\n
That way, partners can address the “big issues” they face such as economic and energy security, development and transnational crime, among others.<\/p>\n
Social media ban <\/p>\n
Mr. Albanese also recalled that last year Australia instituted a social media ban for people under 16, following the campaign by grieving parents who addressed the General Assembly that turned into global action.<\/p>\n
“Already, more than 20 countries are bringing in or have brought in age restrictions on social media,” he said, “and with the European community taking action, there are many more to come.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He said that cooperating on urgent challenges that confront every country, creating solutions that work for citizens and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":904983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-904982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}