Patrick Gorman (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Western Australia) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

YouTube, Facebook and Twitter all stand against COVID misinformation. It's time that our mail distributors do the same. They should stop taking Clive Palmer's money to distribute falsehoods, lies and dangerous information across Australia. Last week, we saw his latest crazy flyer put out in letterboxes across the state of Western Australia. This man is a conspiracy theorist, he is a Liberal Party preferencer and he's a Liberal Party donor, but now he's putting the lives of all Australians at risk, and the government are doing nothing to stop him. The government are absent from the letterboxes of Australia. They haven't put out any information. They're letting Clive Palmer have a free run in the letterboxes of Australia and it has to stop. If this government won't do anything, I'm calling on IVE Group—we normally know them in this place as Salmat—to stop taking Clive Palmer's money. They're not doing any good. They can use their freedom of speech to stop taking his money. They don't have to distribute his misinformation. And I say to the person who is not here this week, the Manager of Government Business: if what I read in TheDaily Telegraph is true, that he is a—shock—friend of Clive Palmer, he should do the right thing as a friend, talk to Clive Palmer and say, 'This is not what you should be doing.' He needs to stop, and this government need to get their— (Time expired)