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Flat White

The governing orthodoxy or the truth?

30 June 2023

5:30 AM

30 June 2023

5:30 AM

No, look, seriously, what do you say to a Labor government that plans to fine companies billions of dollars for publishing disinformation and/or misinformation, when that government itself is the most persistent offender?

The first response, of course, is to question who would decide what is a transgression. The Ministry of Truth, of course, you naïve innocent…! But the wrench in the spokes of that wheel is that these days, truth has many owners.

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