Published: May 17, 2019
After the election, the job of unwinding mandatory data retention and the assistance and access mess will be upon us
Elections are shaped by the tension between what major party politicians want to talk about and what’s actually happening in the country. If they have decided it’s in their collective interest to run dead on the climate emergency, or the need to urgently raise the Newstart rate for example, then it is hard to get a word in edgewise.
There is always a risk that digital rights and the future of the internet will vanish into this gap in the national conversation; but as hard as the major parties might wish these issues would stay in the memory hole, this time around they can’t be avoided.
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