Hardly a day had passed after the government unveiled its initial draft of the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill 2023 when critics descended upon it. ‘Hey Peasants, Your Opinions Hell, your facts Are Fake News’, …
In Australia’s bustling cities and vast remote regions lie the critical infrastructure assets that are fundamental to people’s lives: electricity, water, health care, telecommunications, transport, food and more. Critical infrastructure is vulnerable to an array …
Last month, Canada passed modern slavery laws focused specifically on forced labour and child labour. This comes in the context of an emerging global trend of new national modern slavery laws. In Australia, a statutory …
As the government prepares to introduce legislation into parliament for an Australia-wide ban on Nazi symbols, it’s timely to revisit the extensive coverage of this issue in ASPI’s Counterterrorism yearbook 2022. The yearbook placed the …
After days of intense negotiations with the Indonesian government, Alphabet, Meta and more than 9,000 technology firms—8,900 of which are local—finally complied with Indonesia’s new licensing regulations last month to avoid being banned from operating …