Dec 9, 2025 – 3.33pm
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Alittle over a year from now, Julie Inman Grant plans to step down as the Australia’s first eSafety commissioner. By then – mid-January 2027 – she will have been in the role for 10 years. She started two prime ministers ago before TikTok and YouTube Shorts existed in this country. For an online regulator, it has been a busy decade. She is, understandably, tired.
“I think 10 years is a good period of time. You don’t want the role to be about one person … it will be time for me to step away,” Inman Grant says, when asked whether she intended to ask for a third, five-year term. “I would say that I’ve worked hard my entire career, but this job has become consecutively harder over time.”
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