{"id":929417,"date":"2026-10-15T19:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929417\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T19:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T19:54:19","slug":"australia-news-live-wells-says-gender-debates-would-not-be-policed-in-reforms-trump-administration-will-not-livestream-firing-squad-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/929417\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Wells says gender \u2018debates\u2019 would not be policed in reforms; Trump administration will not livestream firing squad execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communications Minister Anika Wells says gender \u201cdebates\u201d, including around transgender rights, will not be policed under Labor\u2019s digital reforms, but could not provide more clarity on how the government would determine what constituted a hostile attitude towards women.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether public figures such as author J. K. Rowling \u2013 who has used her platform to promote anti-trans views \u2013 would be subject to hostile attitude restrictions, Wells said: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, a hostile attitude example that I used at the National Press Club is material that says to young boys that consent doesn\u2019t matter,\u201d the minister told ABC\u2019s 7.30 last night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Communications Minister Anika Wells at the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/09a825de4286c60b3ad3782069cfebc65bddb0c8.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Communications Minister Anika Wells at the National Press Club in Canberra on Thursday.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>She could not provide further clarity on the scope of the definition, and said the eSafety Commissioner would produce and publish regulatory guidance that would determine whether the intent of online content was hostile. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason that that provision is in the bill is because we had more than 20 women\u2019s groups and teachers, teachers\u2019 coalitions from across the country ask us to incorporate that because they\u2019ve noticed that young boys coming through the education system have these hostile attitudes,\u201d Wells said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe regulatory guidance that was published around what reasonable steps were for the social media minimum age, that\u2019s similarly going to be instructive for how big tech has to assess the risks on its platform against that detail.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Communications Minister Anika Wells says gender \u201cdebates\u201d, including around transgender rights, will not be policed under Labor\u2019s digital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-929417","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\/929417","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=929417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}