{"id":928611,"date":"2026-10-15T03:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928611\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T03:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T03:56:11","slug":"australia-news-live-unemployment-jumps-to-highest-level-in-nearly-five-years-wells-introduces-digital-duty-of-care-pushes-back-on-censorship-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/928611\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Unemployment jumps to highest level in nearly five years; Wells introduces Digital Duty of Care, pushes back on censorship criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Anika Wells says she is considering a move to an eSafety commission, rather than having a single commissioner after Julie Inman Grant retires from the role next year.<\/p>\n<p>Wells was responding to a question regarding the abuse Inman Grant had copped in her years serving in the job.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport Anika Wells.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1113dac6907cb8bf7c738b1388b1f37ce766e2be.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Minister for Communications and Minister for Sport Anika Wells.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am considering at the moment, given the resourcing required for the digital duty of care, and the volume that is rising sharply in complaints and people seeking recourse, how we re-gear our system so it\u2019s modern,\u201d Wells said in her address at the National Press Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want to be a forward-facing minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want this to be a future-oriented portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that the communications portfolio is essentially infrastructure for the future, and I\u2019m always looking at ways that we can do that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communications Minister Anika Wells says she is considering a move to an eSafety commission, rather than having a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":928612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-928611","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\/928611","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=928611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/928612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}