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ssue No. No 56 139 •A• community newspaper for Newcastle’s • December 2018 • • • Issue Newcastle’s favourite little communitysuburbs newspaper • December 2025
Santa seensocial over Safely uburbs The Federal Government aims to protect young people at a critical stage of their development, through world-first social media age restrictions commencing this month.
From December 10 certain social media platforms will not be allowed to let children under 16 years of age create or keep an a Claus has been seen fine keep their rooms tidy right through account.
g his Christmas Eve delivery December,” he told The Local. The list of platforms impacted with brazen daylight “So many of them have put in a includes Facebook, Instagram, ers Kick, of some localSnapchat, suburbs. Threads, great effort both at school and Reddit, exclusive with The and home this year. It would be a TikTok, interview X (formerly Twitter) l theYouTube. big red man wanted to shame if right at the end of the nd everyone, kids especially, isyear The eSafety Commissioner at we had to reconsider who’s painsbest to say that it’s not a ban,on it’sthe ‘nice’ list” on their behaviour in the a delay having accounts. Santa said his elves have been up to the bigtoday. continued on page 4 re are some very good boys working overtime in their girls who live in the Newcastle workshop and had made some and I hope they remember to building blocks for Ben in
Adamstown and a science set for Abbey in Hamilton South. “I do have some information that Harry in North Lambton has been forgetting to do his jobs, but there’s still plenty of time for him to turn that around and get back on the good list,” Santa said. “I’m confident that I’ll be stopping at every home in the local area on Christmas Eve. If everyone’s 2026 asleep that is.”
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