Ms Grace French:

Deputy Geoghegan mentioned the videos that came up on TikTok. TikTok needs to be found responsible for those.

It is not the first time a video like that has come out and the company has taken it down after a couple of days. It is horrific. There are people as young as eight on TikTok, which is horrendous and they should not be on, it in my personal opinion. They are seeing that video and it can genuinely and properly damage their mental health. Adults are not seeing those videos on the news, as was said, but children are and it has a terrible effect on people's mental health. That video was up for far too long, as well as other violent videos, and they were saved. Loads of teenagers still have access to them, even though they are off the Internet now.

Companies and apps need to be held responsible for that type of thing. Why is the video up there in the first place? The video should have gone through monitoring before it was available for posting, even if it is a public account. Senator Scahill mentioned the national AI office. We are a children's rights organisation so our main goal is to have children's rights highlighted. To involve us in the national AI office, all we want is for children's voices to be heard and children's rights to be looked at when laws and decisions are being made.