Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The legislation we'll be bringing forward means that everybody should identify themselves online when they're making statements or making posts so they can be accountable for that. It will apply right across the country. Where the social media companies do not identify that individual, they will be identified as the publisher. That is what our bill does. That is what our proposed remedy is. It builds on the world-leading Online Safety Act and the work that is being done to combat the use of the internet by terrorists. It builds on the work being done by the world's ever first eSafety Commissioner. All of the work we're doing here is to stand up for Australians who are at risk in the online environment. Those who are most at risk are our young people and our women.

I would hope that this would have bipartisan support. I would call for it to have bipartisan support and not be used in the typical political game playing that we get from the opposition. This is a very serious issue, and I would have thought the Labor Party would have been only too quick to support it. But that doesn't seem to be the case by the jeers and the interjections we've had on this matter today.

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