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On 24 November, Parliament abandoned the Misinformation Bill. Just two weeks later, Zoe Daniel MP re-introduced it under a different name. Here is an initial brief analysis of the Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care Bill) 2024 and its implications.

While the federal Misinformation and Disinformation Bill has been abandoned, planned new Victorian anti-hate speech laws will widen the net of draconian federal, state and territory laws crushing freedom of speech in Australia.

The Federal Labor Government has officially withdrawn its Misinformation Bill in a massive victory for free speech. The bill's defeat represents the power of ordinary people to make a very real difference.

Despite stiff pushback from legal experts and the public, the misinformation bill passed in the House of Representatives on 7 November. It now goes to the Senate, where Labor, with the possible support of the Greens, needs to shore up the votes of enough crossbench senators to pass it into law.

Despite widespread opposition from the Australian public, Labor’s "Misinformation and Disinformation" Bill has passed the House of Representatives by 78 votes to 57.

The government wants to pass its Misinformation Bill before the end of the year. But its success or failure is on a knife’s edge. Here are the independent senators who will decide its fate.

First, those in charge of adjudicating what is and is not misinformation are sometimes wrong, resulting in the censorship of true information. Second, there are harms associated with the suppression of true information.

Communications Minister Michelle Rowland tabled a new version of the bill which she said is intended to “carefully balance the public interest in combatting seriously harmful misinformation and disinformation with the freedom of expression that is so fundamental to our democracy.”

Today is the darkest day for Freedom of Speech in Australian history. The Labor Party has introduced its revised misinformation legislation to Parliament.

Despite assurances to the contrary, the misinformation bill violates Australia’s commitment to freedom of opinion and expression, as laid out in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which Australia is a signatory.

The extent of backlash to the Misinformation Bill will only be clear by 2026, if the Government keeps delaying the release of submissions.

The bill provides that ACMA requires digital providers to establish codes and make rules about misinformation and disinformation.

Labor plans to use its ‘Misinformation Bill’ to censor Australians online. Are they now censoring those critical of their censorship proposal?

The government’s proposed ‘misinformation bill’ is currently up for public feedback. The Canberra Declaration strongly urges people to write in with their concerns about the bill, which can be done here. Why is the bill so concerning? Recently the Hon Kevin Andrews, former Federal MP, [...]

This week, the Canberra Declaration made a submission to the inquiry into the Albanese Government's dystopian 'Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation' Bill. Read a powerful excerpt of it below. We could not be more strongly opposed to the Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill [...]

How ironic that our Labour Government should be at pains to pass a "misinformation" bill to ban propaganda, and their government agency will decide what is and isn’t propaganda!

Most of us know there is a draft bill before the Parliament with a verbose title: Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill. Its name alone should tell us something smells. The answer to bad speech is MORE speech, not less.

The new Moderna factory opened in Victoria this week with the promise of pumping out up to 100 million doses of mRNA vaccines per year, amid rising vaccine hesitancy and unresolved safety concerns.

From our initial analysis, we have significant concerns. While the Misinformation Bill is an improvement on the previous iteration, and provides some protections for religious speech, it still puts the power of censorship in the hands of unaccountable private corporations.

As with bits of most government legislation, the Misinformation Bill is worded in such a way as to sound quite innocuous and safe – even helpful and necessary. But that is so often not the case, and the opposite outcome is what we must fear.

In the wake of two violent stabbings in Sydney, senior politicians and bureaucrats are promising to ramp up social media censorship to protect Australians from misinformation and violent content online.

The IPA points out that the federal government's bill will create fact-checkers empowered by law to censor online opinion to the satisfaction of an opaque government body or the Minister herself.

Scandal-ridden RMIT ABC Fact Check has been caught spreading more misinformation, even as the Australian government demands social media sites censor content deemed false by fact-checkers.

If a recent study is anything to go by, it seems that conservative misinformation experts are about as common as married bachelors or honest thieves.

With Labor's Digital ID Bill now introduced to parliament, we can be sure their promise that it won't be mandatory, as with the vaccines, will last all of five minutes. 

Experts told you Covid vaccine side effects were already known. That was a whopper of a lie burger. In August 2021, ABC released a Covid vaccine campaign video called ‘Vax Facts!’ In the video, TV doctor Norman Swan told Australians that when it came to [...]

Biden’s new “Disinformation Governance Board” is the stuff of dystopian novels. How will his partisan government be able to provide objective "fact-checking" facilities? It is just a means to control the flow of information in accordance with the Democrats' agenda. When much of the media [...]

This eye-opening book gets to the root of the system which created Big Pharma, exposing the lies and simplistic narrative fed to us about healthcare and vaccines. Robert F. Kennedy Jr details the way Anthony Fauci and his goons have manipulated the medical industry into [...]

Given Albanese's warm welcome of Bill Gates to Australia, it would appear the Australian Prime Minister is less concerned about election interference by foreign elites than the political leanings of those elites.

Depending on which echo chamber you get your news from, last week Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took steps to either save democracy, or to end it. Zuckerberg announced several changes to Meta’s moderation approach, including replacing third-party fact-checkers with a user-driven Community Notes model.

I think we all believe that we have a neural pathway in our brain that can detect truth from lies. However, it seems to me that there are a series of filters that we consciously or subconsciously apply to the inputs of information that obscure or cancel some or all of the data.

Thinking you are a good person so you have nothing to fear about our growing surveillance state is both naive and reckless. In truth, we are all at risk.

Information Warfare is an integral – and largely misunderstood – part of conflict. The use of terms like “misinformation” by politicians and pundits does nothing to help dispel this misunderstanding.

Australia is the first country to set the minimum age of social media access to 16, after a landmark bill passed in the Senate late into the evening on the final sitting day of the year.

Stop wasting your time on fake news. Get on Twitter/X and follow these accounts before the Albanese Government throws us all in the digital gulag.

The new laws would lower the legal threshold for prosecuting people for vilification and would add gender identity, sex, sex characteristics, sexual orientation and disability to the list of protected attributes alongside race and religion, which are already protected.

At a recent World Economic Forum meeting, John Kerry made it quite clear that things like freedom of speech and the US First Amendment stand in the way of the global elites implementing their radical changes.

A major point of a digital ID is not to identify yourself, but to track and trace your every move. As always, it is about control; it is about Big Brother keeping an eye on you and making sure that we all stay in line and remain subservient to the all-powerful State.

Aussie mainstream media criticises government's censorship overreach as Elon Musk's X threatens to sue. Have we reached a cultural tipping point?

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant famously suggested a “recalibration” of human rights in online spaces, including freedom of speech, at a WEF meeting in 2022.