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As-made2021 Australian harm tests

Earlier Act already contains serious harm, targeted child/adult abuse, contextual merit/consent and classification tests. A competing antecedent to similarities; not proof each later clause copied it.

What the records show

Further reading

Australia Digital Duty of Care: operative authority and adult choice

From harm vocabulary to proposed Australian legal categories

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What the connections say

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As-made2021 Australian harm testsprovides earlier substantive harm-test comparatorDraft initial categories and ministerial additions

Interpretation from the evidence

As-made2021sections5-9/106 predate2023 typology. Similar legal concepts need not originate solely in it; comparison does not prove exact drafting lineage or equivalence of every threshold.

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