Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia)
What is Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia)?
The Online Safety Act 2021 establishes a regulatory framework for online safety in Australia, administered by the eSafety Commissioner. It covers cyberbullying, image-based abuse, online content regulation, and industry codes/standards for online safety. It comprises 21 controls organised across 6 domains, and applies in Australia.
How Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia) maps to other frameworks
All 21 controls, each one mapped to the equivalent requirement in other standards, with the evidence that carries across and the mappings that were judged and rejected shown alongside. No account needed to look.
See the control mappings →The 6 domains Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia) groups its controls into
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Query Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia) programmatically
Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia), its 21 controls and every mapping into other standards are available over a REST endpoint and an MCP server, so an agent can read them directly. The free tier is 10 calls a day and needs no signup.
Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia) API reference and MCP config →What Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia) requires, control by control
Each page carries the requirement text for one Online Safety Act 2021 (Australia) control and what an assessor expects to see as evidence.
- AUOSA-4-1 Basic Online Safety Expectations
- AUOSA-4A-1 Social media minimum age
- AUOSA-5-1 Cyberbullying material targeted at an Australian child
- AUOSA-6-1 Non-consensual sharing of intimate images
- AUOSA-7-1 Cyber-abuse material targeted at an Australian adult
- AUOSA-8-1 Material that depicts abhorrent violent conduct
- AUOSA-9-1 Class 1 material - removal
- AUOSA-9-2 Class 2 material - restricted access
- AUOSA-9-4 Industry codes and standards
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