# Australia PM announces $600m anti-trafficking package as Chanel Contos urges action on ‘manosphere’

https://mins.news/en/item/40980

- The Guardian, 2026-09-01 20:56 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/sep/02/anthony-albanese-palau-forum-one-nation-pauline-hanson-channel-contos-ntwnfb

> Anthony Albanese announced a $600m investment at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau to help stop transnational drug trafficking through the Pacific and into Australia. Consent education advocate Chanel Contos will call for a social media opt-in algorithm to limit the reach of the “manosphere”, which she says promotes misogyny and harms men, women and girls.