Grassroots Campaign Group to Take on Labor Government’s ‘Ministry of Truth’

Fresh from campaigning against The Voice proposal, the grassroots group will next target the impending misinformation laws.

FILE - An iPhone displays the Facebook app in New Orleans, Aug. 11, 2019. Facebook failed to detect election-related misinformation in ads ahead of Brazil's 2022 election, a new report from Global Witness has found, continuing a pattern of not catching material that violates its policies the group says is “alarming.” AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File

Advance Australia—a centre-right grassroots organisation—will next campaign against the federal Labor government’s upcoming misinformation and disinformation bill.

Fresh from campaigning against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, which aimed to alter the Australian Constitution, executive director Matthew Sheahan warned the Albanese government’s new bill would establish a “Ministry of Truth” in the country.