Things are moving fast in Australia. A consultation, including a meaningful opportunity for children to have their say, has now finished(1) and there will be a further statutory consultation period of 60 days on the draft code at the beginning of 2026.

“Engagement by parents and children on the Code has been amazing. We received around 300 responses from them and many more from industry. We are now moving to the drafting phase,” Kind told PL&B on the fringes of the Global Privacy Assembly (GPA) in Korea.

Children, young people, teachers and parents were invited to share their views on children’s privacy. Children’s participation was aided by providing them with age-appropriate work sheets and making it possible to fill in an online form or an interactive PDF. Parents were presented with several scenarios of every-day situations where they would need to know about consent, parental controls or targeted ads. In addition, the office organised a few video calls with groups of children.