VICTORY! Mobile phone ban has just been announced!

WOW! The Queensland Government has just announced a school mobile phone ban!

The new policy will come into effect in January 2024.

A HUGE thanks to each and every one of you.

Your petition of 10,000+ signatures certainly made a lot of noise (it was all over the media in the past week) and undoubtedly contributed to this announcement.

Even though our work here is done - we still have other battles to fight.

Social media is making our children depressed, anxious, sleep-deprived and too body-conscious. It is weakening real-life friendships and family relationships. It is fuelling bullying. It is giving predators easy access to our children.

n short, social media is robbing our children of their precious childhoods.

If you share these concerns, please stay in touch with us by following our Facebook page - facebook.com/theheadsupalliance - and join our growing community of Australian families delaying social media and smartphones for our children.

(And no, the irony is not lost on us. We love that we are using social media to fight social media.)

Thank you again for contributing to the push to get mobile phones out of Queensland schools. These types of successes can be quite rare - so congratulations again and let's savour the victory!