House debates

Thursday, 5 March 2026

Questions without Notice

Political Advertising

2:21 pm

Photo of Zali SteggallZali Steggall (Warringah, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

To the Prime Minister: a far-right activist group—the organisation to which, incredibly, the husband of the Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism donated—recently platformed abhorrent claims that Angela Merkel's politics did more damage to Germany than Nazis and Adolf Hitler. Shockingly, also in attendance was former prime minister and director of Fox Corporation Tony Abbott and current sitting Liberal senators. ADVANCE astroturfs and spreads misinformation to gain support for a dangerous far-right agenda. Will the government urgently guardrail against this with truth-in-political-advertising laws and ban the use of generative AI and deepfakes in political advertising?

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