Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy - Melbourne, VIC (part 2 of 2)
11 November 2025
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Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy Australian Parliament
00:00 - 00:01
That's where there's the conflation.
00:01 - 00:50
Speaker 9
If if you're getting charged $20 a day to leave your own home, I think for some people that would in effect be a lockdown. They couldn't afford that. So we can argue about the semantics as the problem. I mean, what you're suggesting or what has been suggested often in this committee is a protect... Effectively a protection racket for governments against criticism of their own policies.
So there is, I think, legitimate criticisms about policies that are being pushed here in certain UK cities, and you can agree or disagree with them. But effectively, what's being proposed here is saying, well, anything that anything that disagrees with those policies, I'm gonna categorize as dis... Disinformation or misinformation. It should be banned. How do we how do we properly ensure that a government is not protected against criticism when it's very easy to characterize almost any criticism as misinformation?
00:51 - 01:34
Speaker 39
That's why we're very clear in what we categorize as as disinformation disinformation and being very clear that we are nonpartisan in our approach and really about trying to restore integrity to our information environment. And that goes beyond the relationship between government and citizenry. That also includes a really key role for public interest media. We work very extensively with media outlets. Also in the public sector, the private sector, a number of different entities that also need to be trusted and and that we do need to be able to restore the capability to have democratic debate about issues that are impacting people's lives.
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