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“The digital duty of care is an international embarrassment.”
As IPA Research Fellow Margaret Chambers writes, Michael Shellenberger’s visit helped bring international attention to Labor’s proposed Digital Duty of Care, which could give the government greater control over what Australians can see, say and access online. Australia should be defending free speech, not exporting censorship.
📖 Read Margaret’s Substack piece: bit.ly/4jz0wEL
#Censorship #Internet #Australia
“The workplace relations system and policies of the government constrain efficiency and growth.”
Former Australian Building & Construction Commissioner John Lloyd explains at the launch of the IPA's Economic Prosperity Initiative how changes to IR laws and expanded union powers have contributed to falling productivity and rising costs in Victoria’s construction sector.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/4zU3vfT
#Construction #Economy #Australia
“Energy Security is National Security.”
IPA Director Scott Hargreaves and Stephen Wilson warn that Australia’s declining fuel security leaves the country vulnerable to supply disruptions, arguing that energy security must once again be a national priority.
📖 Read the full article: bit.ly/47zEfzj
#Energy #Security #Australia
“It's often amongst the highly educated that you find the truly closed mind.”
Economist Henry Ergas argues that highly educated people can become so attached to their ideas that they struggle to accept the possibility that they might be wrong.
📺 Watch the full discussion: bit.ly/3UEnGiP
#Education #Ideas #Australia
“The eSafety Commissioner can set up all these accounts to essentially spout government propaganda.”
IPA Research Fellow Margaret Chambers warns that the proposed powers could allow the eSafety Commissioner to disguise government messaging behind seemingly independent online identities.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/4idHGkb
#Internet #Politics #Australia
“The young generation set the new rules of recruitment.”
Economist Henry Ergas draws on Nobel Prize-winning economist Thomas Schelling’s model of neighbourhood segregation to illustrate how generational change and like-minded recruitment can reshape the prevailing culture within Australian universities.
📺 Watch the full discussion: bit.ly/3UEnGiP
#Economics #Universities #Australia
“Simply trying to say this is social media's fault is a way of trying to get out of providing leadership.”
IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild criticises the Labor government for using the Helen Haines incident to build support for its Digital Duty of Care legislation, rather than addressing the broader and more complex causes of violence.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/3TPGgUZ
#Censorship #Politics #Australia
“The only debate this government can win is a debate that it does not allow to happen.”
IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild warns that Labor’s Digital Duty of Care would expand the government’s ability to censor online speech and undermine open political debate.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/3VThBzu
#Censorship #Politics #Australia
“It needs to be abandoned. It needs to be put in the bin.”
IPA Research Fellow Margaret Chambers says cosmetic changes to Labor’s Digital Duty of Care have failed to address its fundamental problems, calling for the bill to be abandoned entirely.
#Censorship #Internet #Australia
"Unemployed people are forced to spend more money... as punishment for Labor’s out-of-control spending."
IPA Research Fellow Saxon Davidson warns that the Labor government’s out-of-control spending and inflation are adding to the financial pressures facing Australians, as rising interest rates make household debt increasingly difficult to manage.
📖 Read the full article: bit.ly/4k3TYhl
#Inflation #Debt #Australia
“It really does matter to every single Australian.”
IPA Research Fellow Margaret Chambers warns that Labor’s Digital Duty of Care could affect what Australians see online, urging people to follow the debate and stay informed.
📲 Stay informed, follow the IPA and support the fight for online freedom: bit.ly/4tnLlQk
#Censorship #Politics #Australia
“The next inflation shock might not be caused by government spending or the housing market.”
IPA Research Analyst Archer Holling warns that rising fuel and fertiliser costs could drive the next wave of inflation, with Australia’s reliance on overseas suppliers putting pressure on farmers and eventually supermarket prices.
📖 Read the full article: bit.ly/4zFVYB8
#Inflation #Farming #Australia
“When we keep fighting, we eventually get there in the end.”
IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild argues that institutions like the IPA and CPAC are essential to keeping important arguments alive, regardless of whether they’re popular.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/3VAZsWZ
#Politics #Ideas #Australia
“Cutting public spending has rightly become one of the foremost demands of sensible people.”
IPA Senior Fellow Adam Creighton argues that political hypocrisy is undermining efforts to reduce government spending, with proposed savings on private health insurance rebates, veterans’ benefits and credit card fees blocked despite mounting public debt.
📖 Read the full article at the link in our bio.
#Economy #Spending #Australia
“The most radical mass-censorship legislation any Western government has proposed."
Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public and CBR Chair of Politics, says that Labor’s Digital Duty of Care would allow the government to operate fake online accounts to promote its own messaging while posing as ordinary citizens.
📖 Read the full article: bit.ly/4jZcbwD
#Censorship #Media #Australia
“This is absolutely an immigration policy that puts Australia first.”
In the latest episode of the Australia’s Future podcast, former PM Tony Abbott outlines a policy agenda focused on lower taxes, cheaper electricity and an enforceable Australian values test for longer-term visa holders.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/3Uu3QGU
#Migration #Policy #Australia
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Thank you to @shellenberger for visiting Australia, courtesy of @TheIPA, to expose the Albanese government’s draconian digital duty of care laws which must be scrapped.
Not only is Anika Wells using the cloak of child safety to justify this assault on free speech, she was today caught out lying about sweeping powers in her bill which enable @eSafetyOffice to create fake ‘sock puppet’ accounts to track people covertly online.
As @News24Aust journalist Cameron Reddin correctly pointed out, there are no limits on the type of information which could be spread online by the government regulator using these powers.
Here is @AnikaWells brazenly lying about the fake accounts ("sock puppets") provision of the law:
She says, "Well, there is nowhere in the bill that gives the government, and by the government, in this instance, the independent regulator, that power. It's just not there."
Yes, it is there, as anyone who reads the bill can see. I'll paste it again below.
“It’s only for institutionalised journalists who are on the government’s payroll.”
Following yesterday’s Press Club address by Communications Minister Anika Wells, IPA Research Fellow Margaret Chambers explains why the revised Digital Duty of Care bill could leave podcasters and everyday Australians exposed to censorship.
#Censorship #Media #Australia
“We’ve gotten bigger, but we haven’t gotten better.”
IPA Deputy Executive Director Daniel Wild argues that the government’s mass migration policy has failed to lift living standards, with weak productivity and high job vacancies exposing a political migration program rather than an economic or skills-based one.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/3VAZsWZ
#Migration #Economy #Australia
“It's a disproportionate, unjustifiable law that needs to be abandoned in full.”
Michael Shellenberger, founder of Public and CBR Chair of Politics, Censorship and Free Speech at the University of Austin Texas, speaks with IPA Senior Fellow Andrew Bushnell about why they believe the proposed Digital Duty of Care cannot be fixed with amendments.
📺 Watch more: bit.ly/46FPgi4
#Censorship #Law #Australia