People have said some crazy shit about me, but the other day a friend told me a friend of his had advised him not to vote for me in the last election because I was in the Illuminati. How bizarre. I am a member of the Greens and the Bangalow CWA, but that’s the extent of my covert memberships.

With the Australian federal parliament in recess, and in the wake of an American election won with a campaign of lies amplified by social media, a Senate committee spent a day last week publicly discussing the Albanese government's (probably doomed) bill to combat misinformation and disinformation.

Advance Australia are coming after me. They’ve publicly declared they are raising $5 million for the war chest to smash a few hand-picked Greens – and lucky me, I’m one of them!

A legal advocacy group has raised concerns over a proposed bill by federal Labor, that if it were to become law, would arm a government department with ‘extraordinary coercive powers’ to monitor and enforce an ‘industry standard’ of misinformation and disinformation on digital platforms.