Augusto Zimmermann, Professor and Head of Law at Sheridan Institute of Higher Education in Australia, President of WALTA – Legal Theory Association, and former Law Reform Commissioner with the Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, has a piece at RT.com outlining the extreme danger to free speech and democracy posed by the Labor government’s, The Communications Legislation Amendment (Combating Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2023. The Bill proposes that digital platforms will police what the government classifies as “misinformation” and “disinformation.” Otherwise the law proposal provides for the full empowerment of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) to directly intervene for the purpose of preventing “harm.” “Harm” is defined to mean as well, anything that the Labor government finds “harmful” to its interests and will to power.
If this Bill becomes an Act, Australia will be a full-blooded dictatorship along the lines of communist China, who our Leftist PM admires so much. There needs to be a massive public pushback against this act of treachery by the Labor government.