Australian government 🇦🇺 finds out that keeping teenagers off social media is more challenging than they thought

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Le gouvernement australien 🇦🇺 découvre que garder les ados loins des réseaux sociaux est plus difficile qu’ils ne le croyaient

https://moncarnet.com/2026/03/30/australie-interdire-les-reseaux-sociaux-aux-moins-de-16-ans-se-revele-plus-complexe-que-prevu/

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At 23:00 ACDT, it's unlikely that the count will get much further than this tonight.

This is the first clear fracture of the vote on the right of Australian politics. One Nation looks like they're going to finish second in the primary vote, but it's unclear if that will translate into seats.

We're seeing more leakage of preferences on the right than on the left, which has helped Labor in a few marginal seats.

This will have significant implications federally.

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It's really hard to spin this result as a plague-on-both-your-houses message.

Labor managed to maintain their primary vote share in Adelaide, and their vote share in the bush is down only modestly.

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At 22:00 ACDT, Labor has comfortably secured its majority in the House of Assembly.

The Liberals have collapsed, and One Nation, despite running second in the primary vote, is not yet on the board in terms of seats (it might finish that way, or it might not).

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Cory Bernardi describes the result for One Nation as an earthquake, and that they will hold the strongest voice in the SA Parliament they've ever had.

I can't find more than two seats where they are even in play, and both of those seats we're not going to know how they went for several days.

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Liberal Leader Ashton Hurn has told supporters to celebrate the Liberal cause.

There's not really much to celebrate though. They're down to just a single seat in Adelaide, and a primary vote collapsing across the state.

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Former Liberal leader Vincent Tarzia has been defeated in Hartley.

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There are currently seven Liberal seats where Labor is leading.

If all of them hold, that will put them in the mid-30s. Not as large as the Liberals' 1993 landslide, but a substantial majority nonetheless.

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We have our first Labor gain, taking Morialta from the Liberals.

And it won't be the last I'm sure.

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At 20:00 ACDT, Labor is now leading in 28 seats, with a half-dozen Labor seats still yet to report.

One Nation is currently ahead of the Liberals in the primary vote, but they are struggling to convert that into seats at this stage.

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