Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

McKENZIE (—) (): My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. The Albanese government has been forced to scrap its disastrous Communications Legislation Amendment (Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation) Bill 2024 after realising that every single non-Labor senator was going to vote against it. This followed criticism from distinguished experts like Professor Anne Twomey, who said that she was worried that your government would 'create worse problems through large-scale censorship of contested views and the undermining of democracy in the name of cleansing it from misinformation'. Can the Prime Minister promised the Australian people that he will not reintroduce this bill or any similar bill after the next election?