Democracy Sausage: Whose Side Are You On?
Independent MP for Curtin Kate Chaney makes the case for a broad duty on tech platforms to prevent foreseeable harm — and why she thinks this fight has nothing to do with free speech at all. Then, Australia Institute's Richard Dennis and the University of Sydney's Stewart Jackson join Mark and Marija to ask whether the Greens have got too clever by half, too comfortable inside parliament, and too reluctant to just say whose side they're on.
Is Australia’s looming digital duty of care about censorship, as its critics claim, or about handing control back to the people whose attention is being sold to advertisers?
From Perth’s outer suburbs to a state election in Germany, the populist right is romping home wherever voters are abandoning the major parties. So why isn’t the same thing happening on the left?
Kate Chaney is an Australian independent politician, who was elected to the Australian House of Representatives at the 2022 Australian federal election in the division of Curtin.
Richard Denniss is an Australian economist, author and public policy commentator. He is the co-Chief Executive Officer of The Australia Institute, an independent Australian public policy think tank. Denniss is known for his work on the relationships between economics, public policy, democratic institutions and the role of government in Australia.
Dr Stewart Jackson is an Honorary Associate in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, specialising in Australian politics. His broader interests cover Green politics in Australia and the Asia Pacific, with a special interest in party development. Prior to becoming an academic, Dr Jackson was involved in Green politics for 20 years as a party activist, including a period as National Convenor of the Australian Greens.
Dr Marija Taflaga is the Director of the ANU Centre for the Study of Australian Politics and a Lecturer at the ANU School of Politics and International Relations.
Mark Kenny is the Director of the Australian Studies Institute. He came to the Australian National University after a high-profile journalistic career culminating in 6 years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times.
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