25 Jun 2025

Australia: Iran bombing reax, YouTube exempt

From Nine To Noon, 9:45 am on 25 June 2025
An illustration photo shows the YouTube logo displayed on a smartphone in Suqian, China, on March 6, 2025. (Photo Illustration by Costfoto/NurPhoto) (Photo by CFOTO / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

 YouTube would be exempt from Australia's proposed social media ban. Photo: AFP/ NurPhoto

Australia correspondent Chris Niesche looks at how Australia responded to the US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities and questions over whether its Pine Gap communications facility was used in any way.

The eSafety commissioner has called for YouTube to be included in the ban on under-16s accessing social media, due to come into effect in December.

And a new study of marine sediment off WA's Montebello Islands has found plutonium levels up to 4,500 higher than the rest of the coast.

The site was used in the 1950s by Britain for its nuclear tests.