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How the federal government’s misinformation bill might impede freedom of speech

The federal government’s proposed legislation on misinformation and disinformation has passed the House of Representatives, but faces a rocky time in the Senate.

A misinformation / disinformation bill by stealth?

Only one week after the Minister for Communications, Michelle Rowlands, agreed to withdraw proposed legislation to control “Misinformation” online – a bill roundly rejected by Parliament and by the Australian public – her department issued an apparently boring bureaucratic document which would achieve at least some of the same outcomes by stealth.

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