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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

No, this bill specifically only makes it possible to penalise the platforms. Parents or children cannot be penalised. The precise wording in the bill is:

A provider of an age-restricted social media platform must take reasonable steps to prevent age-restricted users having accounts with the age-restricted social media platform.

Civil penalty: 30,000 penalty units

There are also penalties that can apply to individuals, but only if:

the person is a provider of an age-restricted social media platform;

or

the person is a provider of an electronic service;

(To the penalty of "Civil penalty: 500 penalty units".)