Senate debates

Wednesday, 17 June 2020

Questions without Notice

Minister for Foreign Affairs

2:50 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

In 2016 the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters said:

… it is essential that this issue—

of foreign-state-backed disinformation—

be actively considered as a part of Australian elections.

So I again ask: after four years of thinking about it, what is the Morrison government now actually doing, beyond the headlines, to protect Australian elections from foreign-state-backed disinformation?

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