If you think Australia's eSafety Commissioner is out of line in slapping fines and sanctions on X, formerly Twitter, look to President Lula da Silva's partisan judiciary for a guide to where state-endorsed censorship inevitably leads. As elected politicians are fined and even imprisoned by unelected judges, Big Tech has mostly tugged the forelock to such tyranny, Elon Musk being the brave exception
When the Constitution's framers set to work all agreed the legal-institutional framework of their new nation should be under the Crown. Without going anywhere near making Australia a republic, the lease on Yarralumla being handed to a hack careerist and Labor apparatchik suggests it is a moment to regret that Sir George Grey didn't get his way