Queensland Premier Steven Miles says social media should be age-restricted. Social media use has sparked a "public health problem" in Queensland, with authorities linking it to an alarming number of teenagers being hospitalised.
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00:00 Should social media be age restricted for teenagers?
00:04 Queensland Premier Stephen Miles has joined calls for social media use to be limited in teenagers
00:10 and says it has sparked a public health problem in Queensland,
00:14 with authorities linking it to an alarming number of teenagers being hospitalised.
00:19 We're seeing increasing evidence that depression and self-harm is more prevalent because of social media
00:28 and I think this is really important.
00:31 As a parent I know how people can apply.
00:33 I've struggled at different times without children's use of social media
00:37 and certainly with problems.
00:38 More guidance, better guidance from people with access to the evidence
00:43 about when and how social media should be used.