Also, the imagery of her new album is more risqué than usual. It feels like her last hurrah, her final fling before closing the chapter on her single girl era.

The married with matching outfits or tradwife era will be an overly saturated snooze fest.

Don't view it as an investment is an opinion that can only be held by those who've never had to worry about the cost of higher education.

Studying at Cambridge or NYU can literally be measured in dollars.

He's right, University degrees aren't enough anymore, employers want people with skills under their belt: former interns and exchange students. Typically, rich kids.

Uni is "worth it" if you can access the experiences only money can buy.

Rental income higher than the average income of all Australian employees. (Source ABS Average Weekly Earnings from May 2024)

In short, Parliament should reference their sources. They should represent them accurately. They should find better sources.

The survey responses were self reported and included questions like "Do you belong to a social web-site such as BEBO, FACEBOOK or MYSPACE?"!?!?!

Imagine asking 15 year olds in 2018 if they use Bebo or MySpace.

And strangely, adolescents who reported "very low" or "very high" social media use had lower life satisfaction ratings than moderate users of social media.

Yes, it finds that social media use relates to decreased life satisfaction. But the researchers acknowledge this relationship is a two way street.

Does social media lead to decreased life satisfaction, or does decreased life satisfaction lead to social media use?

I *think* I found it. This article on social media use and life satisfaction of 14,409 participants between 2011 - 2018.

But how it's represented in the Explanatory Memorandum isn't the whole picture...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

2. A 2024 UK study of 15,836 people aged 16+ that found "no evidence of an association between the frequency of viewing social media and mental health problems in the following year." (although frequent posting was associated with poorer mental health outcomes).
www.jmir.org/2024/1/e56950/

What I have found:

This 2023 study of 3228 UK data that found "little evidence to suggest that more time on social media was associated with later mental health problems in UK adolescents." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

The explanatory memorandum for the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 is available here. The article is mentioned on the bottom of page 1: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...