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Importing and adapting systems-based platform regulation for Australia
Reset.Tech Australia develops and promotes proposals for changing the responsibilities of digital platforms. Its submissions argue for risk assessment, transparency, independent scrutiny and researcher access, explicitly drawing on overseas models. Australia's statutory review quoted its criticism of content-specific duties.
Reset.Tech Australia is an advocacy and research organization focused on the responsibilities of digital platforms. Its proposals address how services are designed and governed, including risk assessments, transparency reporting, audits and access for researchers. It explicitly compares approaches in the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada, making the movement of policy ideas across borders part of its own published programme.
Its contribution to Australia's duty-of-care debate is visible in the official record. The published statutory review quoted Reset's argument that duties focused on particular content categories were inadequate. Reset's broader five-pillar model included risks involving scams, elections, public security, rights, public health and the environment. The Human Rights Law Centre subsequently attributed that model to Reset in its own submission, giving the proposal another institutional route into the debate.
This work has identifiable support. A 2024 Mannifera award listed $40,000 for transparency research and advocacy entering policy processes, including the Online Safety Act review. Other disclosures identify support to the Australian legal recipient and funded collaboration with the Human Rights Law Centre and Digital Rights Watch. Reset also reported convening academic and civil-society experts in March 2024. Resources, research production and coalition activity appear together here.
The September 2026 exposure draft shows that government decisions can narrow an advocate's request. Reset sought researcher access that included third-sector organizations; the draft examined here specifies employment at an Australian university and prospective approval conditions. Reset's importance lies in supplying an organized case for systemic regulation and keeping it before policymakers. The resulting law, if adopted, will reflect public choices about which parts of that case acquire enforceable force.
Assessment updated 2026-09-12
Reset Tech UK Limited → Reset.Tech Australia
Schedule1 names Reset Tech Australia Limited among defined companies. Article17 provides conflict-participation exceptions, with other-director exclusion and non-exempt benefit rules. Definition is not parent ownership or proof of an exercised conflicted vote. Australian organization node reused at its named legal-recipient scope; no global merger.
Mannifera → Reset.Tech Australia
$40,000 Signature Grant, dis/misinformation round. Supports research/advocacy into policy and social-media inquiry including OSA review, not particular2026 clauses. Currency code, exact award/payment date and cash receipt absent. Financial details: value: 40,000; currency: unspecified ($); kind: published grant award; period: calendar2024
Internet Society Foundation → Reset.Tech Australia
2024 ScheduleA names Reset Tech Australia Limited US$87,600. Accrual reporting, not cash receipt; no demonstrated instalment reconciliation withUS$219,000 award. Unnamed ScheduleF row not assigned. No merge with global Reset. Financial details: value: 87,600; currency: USD; kind: reported monetary support (accrual); period: 2024
Reset.Tech Australia → Reset Five Pillars regulatory model
April2024 report; exact publication day unknown
Printed6-7/PDF9 five-pillar table covers existing harms, scams, electoral/publicsecurity, rights, publichealth andenvironmental risks; comparesEU/UK/Canadian approaches. Moment-specific contribution to debate, not a sole WEF derivation.
Reset.Tech Australia → Functioning or Failing? —May2024
May2024
Recommendations include considering a duty for misinformation/disinformation, EU-style risk assessment and researcher access. Not a commission of the whole2026 bill or evidence of adoption; experiments not independently audited.
Department briefing cleared26November2024 → Reset.Tech Australia
Brief edited/cleared26November2024
Document2 PDF14-15 records HRLC DSA proposal andOctober coverage involving HRLC/Reset. Edited and SES-cleared26November2024, after13November commitment; not predecision ministerial reading or receipt of specific submission155.
Reset.Tech Australia → Achieving Digital Platform Public Transparency —June2024
June2024
Opening summary proposes Australian risk assessments, annual reports, audits, portals and researcher access across safety/misinformation frameworks. Model transmission is explicit; government uptake not established here.
Reset.Tech Australia → Reset transparency-advocacy grant purpose
Funded purpose names policy development around misinformation bill/OSA review. No allocation to every Reset activity or proof government adopted conclusions.
Australian duty-of-care policy disposition ↗
Australian duty of care: attributable model transmission ↗
Reset.Tech Australia: three documented funding instruments ↗
Mannifera selection, fiscal authority and the HRLC reform output ↗
McKinnon's commissioning governance ↗
Reset Tech UK: constitutional decision rights ↗
From harm vocabulary to proposed Australian legal categories ↗
Rys Farthing → identified with Australian organization in byline → Reset.Tech Australia
22April2024 article; tenure unknown
Affiliation associated with22April2024 joint article; no undisclosed financing or control inferred.
Reset.Tech Australia → submission70 argument quoted in recommendation → Published updated statutory review —February2025
Review section5.5 directly quotes Reset on inadequacy of content-specific duties. Stronger than shared wording; does not establish final-clause authorship.
Reset.Tech Australia → requests vetted access including third-sector organizations → Reset third-sector research-access request
Printed26/PDF28 of2024 submission. Desired eligibility, not a granted right, contract or regulator designation.
Mannifera → records2024 grant for transparency advocacy → Reset.Tech Australia
$40,000 Signature Grant, dis/misinformation round. Supports research/advocacy into policy and social-media inquiry including OSA review, not particular2026 clauses. Currency code, exact award/payment date and cash receipt absent.
Financial details: value: 40,000; currency: unspecified ($); kind: published grant award; period: calendar2024
Reset.Tech Australia → named grantee for transparency-advocacy purpose → Reset transparency-advocacy grant purpose
Funded purpose names policy development around misinformation bill/OSA review. No allocation to every Reset activity or proof government adopted conclusions.
Reset.Tech Australia → publishes research with duty and assessment recommendations → Functioning or Failing? —May2024
May2024
Recommendations include considering a duty for misinformation/disinformation, EU-style risk assessment and researcher access. Not a commission of the whole2026 bill or evidence of adoption; experiments not independently audited.
Reset.Tech Australia → publishes comparison proposing EU and UK mechanisms → Achieving Digital Platform Public Transparency —June2024
June2024
Opening summary proposes Australian risk assessments, annual reports, audits, portals and researcher access across safety/misinformation frameworks. Model transmission is explicit; government uptake not established here.
Reset.Tech Australia → named operator of intended phase-two research → Children privacy expectations — phase-two research
Award page names Reset Tech Australia. Described methods and expected results do not establish completed outputs or allocation to unrelated policy work.
Internet Society Foundation → annual return reports monetary support to named legal recipient → Reset.Tech Australia
2024 ScheduleA names Reset Tech Australia Limited US$87,600. Accrual reporting, not cash receipt; no demonstrated instalment reconciliation withUS$219,000 award. Unnamed ScheduleF row not assigned. No merge with global Reset.
Financial details: value: 87,600; currency: USD; kind: reported monetary support (accrual); period: 2024
Reset Tech UK Limited → expressly lists Australian entity within defined Group Company category → Reset.Tech Australia
Schedule1 names Reset Tech Australia Limited among defined companies. Article17 provides conflict-participation exceptions, with other-director exclusion and non-exempt benefit rules. Definition is not parent ownership or proof of an exercised conflicted vote. Australian organization node reused at its named legal-recipient scope; no global merger.
Reset.Tech Australia → grantor names HRLC partner in funded transparency advocacy → Human Rights Law Centre
Account of special2024 round; exact publication/implementation dates absent
Reported by the cited source
EO round account explicitly names HRLC and Digital Rights Watch as Reset partners. Stronger than common-donor inference; does not identify joint report authorship, complete coalition roster or endorsement of every recommendation.
Reset.Tech Australia → grantor names Digital Rights Watch partner in transparency advocacy → Digital Rights Watch
Account of special2024 round; exact implementation dates absent
Reported by the cited source
Names a specific partnership in Reset grant purpose/account; not a blanket shared platform or proof that all prior/future positions coincide.