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Last night, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil gave a fiery speech at Old Parliament House, AKA the Museum of Australian Democracy, on the theme of “democracy is under attack”.Following on from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s warning on Sunday that “things can escalate” from protests at offices, O’Neil directly identified the demonstrations outside MPs’ offices as a threat to social cohesion.
” She also criticised social media platforms for spreading disinformation: “Like many newspapers that began as sources of essential information and then degenerated into purveyors of propaganda, social media algorithms push people into filter bubbles and echo chambers that entrench polarising beliefs.” In a bleak note, she compared populism to a virus, “replicating at an exponential rate”.“New strains of nationalism are emerging around the world.
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