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In recent weeks, many Australians have voiced their opposition to Labor’s Bill which could see social media platforms and users fined hundreds of thousands of dollars over “mis or dis information” online.

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.

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!

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

Despite the overwhelming rejection of the Voice, Australian political and cultural elites are carrying on as if the loss never really happened. The Yes advocates continue wagging their fingers at the 60 percent of the electorate who voted No.

How can Trump – a demagogue and convicted felon – be so overwhelmingly popular with Americans that he didn’t just secure re-election but a political clean sweep?

The effort to blast away the ability of the Internet to have a verified history fits neatly into the stakeholder model of information distribution that has clearly been prioritised on a global level.

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet recently published its independent inquiry into the COVID-19 Response in Australia. More, not less, bureaucratic control seems to be the theme of the report. A Royal Commission is well overdue.

Since 2018, Tommy Robinson’s opponents – Muslim, Marxist, and lightweight Tories – have exploited the “that’s not journalism” decree. Smeared as a “far-right, anti-Muslim agitator,” Robinson’s latest incarceration relates to his documentary film "Silenced".

In a report handed down yesterday, Australia’s federal Covid Inquiry found that extreme public health restrictions, coupled with lack of transparency about the evidence informing these decisions, has led to a major slide in public trust.

Labor’s immigration minister Tony Burke has pulled the plug on Candace Owens’ November speaking tour of Australia, two months after opening a door for 3,000 unvetted pro-Hamas Gazans.

Religious freedom, the ability to worship and evangelise, has been increasingly curtailed in the name of “anti-discrimination” and “inclusion”. Now, with its proposed misinformation laws, the federal government has Australians of faith in its sights in the name of “truth”.

The UK-based Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) is again facing serious legal action after revelations one of the group’s goals is to destroy X.

Hobart City Council refused Councillor Louise Elliot the ability to book a venue for a women’s rights event and acted in a very unprofessional manner throughout the process.

A Reformed Baptist pastor from Bristol is Britain’s latest “outlaw”. Police arrested Dia Moodley, a street preacher, for blaspheming Islam, and affirming binary biological reality.

It occurs to me that both the language of cancel culture and specific, high-profile instances of it have quickly faded from public debate. By contrast, talk about “misinformation” and “disinformation” is everywhere.

I was heartbroken recently to see Melania Trump repeating the talking points of the Abortion Lobby. I could hardly believe it. She personally lived through the tyranny of Communism, and the Ruling Party in America relies on the very same tyrannical tactics as the Communists.

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.

Alliance Defending Freedom launched an open letter condemning Supreme Court Judge Alexandre de Moraes’ illegal attacks on X. Requesting Brazil’s far-left government repeal its lockout of the social media company, the letter called for the restoration of “the free flow of information.”

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.