The Heads Up Alliance

06/09/2026

Join 25,000+ signatures already!

www.change.org/FewerScreensMoreLearning

06/09/2026

Dear Ms Chanel Contos,

I appeared before the senate committee last month just after you.

I listened to your testimony and strongly support your campaign to give social media users an option to opt in to algorithmic feeds.

In fact, when it comes to children under 16, I would go further. Given that tech platforms are flouting their obligations under the minimum age law, I believe non-algorithmic feeds should be the only way that social media can be consumed by under 16s.

If you happened to watch the evidence I gave following your session, you may have also heard me argue that platforms need to be transparent with how their algorithms work. We need to be able to see precisely how and why extreme viewpoints are prioritised.

Alongside your call for users to be able to opt in to algorithmic feeds, would you consider also calling on the Government to require platforms to disclose how their algorithms operate?

Australians have had a gutful of private overseas-based companies exacerbating social division and then profiting from the engagement that division creates. I think your campaign, coupled with genuine algorithmic transparency, could go a long way to creating a healthier online environment and, ultimately, a less divided society.

Kind regards,
Dany Elachi
Founder, The Heads Up Alliance

05/09/2026

The mayor of New York City has just announced a moratorium on generative AI use in New York schools. This is precisely what our petition calls for, too. Sign here if you want Australian schools to hit pause on the AI button - until we figure out how to deploy this powerful technology effectively.

04/09/2026

03/09/2026

www.change.org/FewerScreensMoreLearning

02/09/2026

Don't hang your children out to dry.

Give them a fuller childhood.

Delay the smartphone.

02/09/2026

Heads Up Alliance mum Sally explains why she's signed our petition to put teachers and human relationships back at the centre of classrooms again. Link in comments.

31/08/2026

Dr Justin Coulson is a bestselling author and one of Australia's most trusted voices on parenting.

He’s also just thrown his weight behind our petition to roll back the screen-based classroom.

Today, the Heads Up Alliance joined Dr Justin for an in-depth discussion about how too much screen time in the classroom is harming your child’s education.

Links in comments below!

“We're kicking off our Monday with a controversial, provocative topic and a petition that you can sign at the end of it if you really like it.

“Screens in schools - in 2007, Kevin Rudd introduced the education revolution. Why? Because apparently every student needed to have a laptop or a tablet so that they could learn better.

“There was no evidence for it.

“And there are some pretty strong arguments that it has not just not worked, it has been an absolute catastrophic colossal failure.”

30/08/2026

“Children learn best by doing”, explains Miss Helen as she prepares her Hawthorn West Primary School classroom for the first day of school in 1971.

Is there still something we can learn from Ms Helen’s embodied learning approach to primary school education?

29/08/2026