Victorians could go to prison for up to five years for hate speech under new anti-vilification laws proposed by the Victorian Government.

The Australian Government’s Covid vaccine injury compensation scheme ended on Monday, leaving anyone injured by the ongoing administration of the Covid vaccines without a safety net.

A reworked version of the misinformation bill tabled by the Labor Government this week is an improvement on an earlier version of the bill, but fundamental flaws make the laws unworkable, experts say.

A medical doctor, whose submission to the Senate’s excess mortality inquiry was omitted from the public record, has questioned the transparency of the inquiry process, after the committee’s report revealed that a majority of submissions it received had been suppressed.

The Australian Government has voted down a bill to establish a Covid Commission of Inquiry, which would have essentially the same powers and independence as a Royal Commission.

A serious constitutional complaint brought against a Federal Court judge has sparked concerns over the impartiality of the Australian judicial system.

Australia’s online harms regulator eSafety receives daily reports from private ‘social listening’ firm Meltwater to monitor community sentiment about its Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, newly released documents show.

Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant has made international headlines over alleged censorship creep in an escalating stand-off with social media platform X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk.

In the latest edition of Politician Does Doublespeak, Finance Minister Senator Katy Gallagher says that Australia’s Covid vaccination policy is voluntary and that infringements on human rights were justified because of the government’s good intentions, even if they were completely wrong.

Persistence paid off yesterday for Senator Ralph Babet, of the United Australia Party, as the Senate voted in favour of his motion calling for further inquiry into the causes of Australia’s excess deaths.

After climbing the world leaderboard during the initial Covid vaccine rollout to achieve over 95% vaccination coverage,¹ Australians have turned their back on boosters, with the vast majority now ‘under-vaccinated’.

An Adelaide youth worker who was “disabled” by pericarditis after getting a Covid booster shot under a workplace mandate made headlines this week after the South Australian Employment Tribunal ruled that he is to receive income support and payment of medical expenses for his injury.