36 Months Australia — Raise the Age of Social Media Citizenship from 13 to 16 (Petition)
This is the founding petition of 36 Months, the Australian campaign fronted by radio host Michael 'Wippa' Wipfli and advertising executive Rob Galluzzo. Opened on Change.org in May 2024, it calls on the federal government to raise the minimum age for social media accounts from 13 to 16, framing the three years in between as a window of adolescent development the campaign argues is disrupted by early social media use. The petition gathered well over 125,000 signatures — reported elsewhere as more than 147,000 as the campaign grew — and was hand-delivered to Parliament House in Canberra. TechKids Foundation includes it as the primary organizing document behind Australia's under-16 social media law, an example of a media-led petition translating public concern into a specific legislative ask rather than general awareness-raising.
Signature count shown on the live Change.org petition page when this entry was verified; press coverage of the campaign's later stages cites a cumulative total of more than 147,000 signatures.
Change.org lists the petition's creation date, coinciding with the campaign's public launch.
36 Months (Michael Wipfli and Rob Galluzzo). "Raise the Age of Social Media Citizenship from 13-16." Change.org petition, created May 13, 2024. https://www.change.org/p/36-months-australia-raise-the-age-of-social-media-citizenship-from-13-16