Electoral Amendment Bill 2024
The bill before us has been to this place and discussed on a number of occasions, this electoral amendment Bill and the Greens will be supporting this change to section 196 because we have long felt that it is constraining people's rights to speak freely and make political statements in an election period and that the explosion of social media and the changes in communications that have occurred since the act first was written in 2004 means that there is wide disparity between the intentions of what was trying to be achieved in 2004 and the reality of political campaigning in 2024.
