SYDNEY -- Jackson, a 14-year-old high school student in Sydney, usually spends around three hours a day scrolling through his phone's TikTok and Instagram feeds.

Although Canberra is still working on mechanisms to implement its age limit on social media access, other governments in the region and beyond are already looking at following in Australia's footsteps. (Illustration by Hiroko Aida)
Review of technologies to restrict access by children under 16 to be completed soon