Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

That is precisely the point. Our institutions should be treated with respect. The use and weaponisation of deepfake technology to benefit one's political endeavours should be illegal. It should not be allowed to continue, and the foreign interference of it should be absolutely flushed out. We need to make sure that individual Australians are protected from the use of deepfake technology. It should be individual Australians who have the right to say how their faces and their voices will be used online. Our media institutions, our journalists, should absolutely be protected from this type of undermining, dishonesty and foreign interference attack. Australians should be able to know that, when something like this occurs, it will be taken down and corrected.

Now I ask you, through the chair, how will One Nation vote on this bill? Will One Nation admit to having any interaction with, or to having any benefit from, the type of deepfake posts and technology that is being pushed out of these Vietnam centres? There are some media organisations that have already tried to report on this, but, of course, One Nation sits there and pretends that they've got nothing to do with it. Every politician in this place should be standing up for the very essence of our democracy, for strengthening the foundations of our democracy, not for finding ways to undermine it.

Deepfake technology is being used to abuse and to harass individual Australians. It is being used to try and trick people and undermine the trust of our very important public interest journalism. Deepfake technology is being used to intimidate journalists from doing their job. Every politician in this place should be calling it out and putting in place laws that protect us as a community, as a society and as a democracy.