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C0024 Partially True

6.0

"Did not follow cyber security best practice for COVID digital vaccines. They have no effective way to report vulnerabilities, let alone have bug bount..."

COVIDCyberTech

C0026 True

8.0

"Kept secret the budgeting documents used to justify changing the NBN rollout from fibre to the premise to fibre to the node."

CorruptionCyberTech

C0027 Partially True

7.0

"Introduced a bill which they called the 'anti-trolling' bill, which doesn't even mention trolling. It does not make trolling illegal. It does not give..."

CyberDefamationTech

C0031 Partially True

5.0

"Passed legislation for sharing data between law enforcement agencies in different countries, which means we may help countries known to persecute mino..."

CyberInternationalTech

C0034 Misleading

4.0

"Launched a defamation case against a citizen, charging him $35k because he tweeted something mean about a minister."

CyberDefamation

C0037 Partially True

6.0

"Sat on a review of video game classifications for two years. They did nothing until weeks before the 2022 election, proposing a plan without consultat..."

Cyber

C0050 Partially True

5.5

"Failed to mentioned in the COVIDSafe app privacy policy that information about the phone model and device name (e.g. 'Mary's iPhone') is broadcast ove..."

COVIDCyberSafety +2 more

C0055 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced new police powers to spy on and hack innocent Aussies, without a warrant, even if they're not suspected of committing any crime. Powers inc..."

CorruptionCyberDefamation +3 more

C0058 Partially True

5.0

"Proposed forced identification of all social media users, arguing that citizens should not be able to post comments on social media anonymously, and t..."

CorruptionCyberTech

C0059 Partially True

6.0

"Lied by claiming new unprecedented police hacking laws would only apply to terrorists, paedophiles and drug traffickers, when their actual legislation..."

CorruptionCyberTech +1 more

C0060 Partially True

5.5

"Introduced legislation designed to make gig economy companies like Deliveroo report more tax information about their employees, which was so sloppily ..."

CyberEconomyTax

C0076 Partially True

6.5

"Broke their own law by not conducting a report into the privacy impacts and effectiveness of the COVIDSafe app every 6 months."

COVIDCyberTech

C0083 True

7.0

"Tabled law amendments which would result in charities losing their tax deductible status if they tweet in support of public protests, or display their..."

ClimateCyberDefamation +2 more

C0098 Partially True

8.0

"Illegally misled voters by creating dozens of Facebook pages for fictional institutes and pages with deceptively similar names to real organisations, ..."

CorruptionCyberEthics

C0100 Partially True

6.0

"Sued the ABC for defamation, after they published sexual assault allegations about a unnamed senior politician without identifying him. Private news c..."

ABCCyberDefamation

C0107 Partially True

5.0

"Introduced laws which are supposed to combat the rise in unconsentual sharing of nudes ("revenge porn"), but do not include any punishment for people ..."

CyberEthicsTech +1 more

C0108 Misleading

3.0

"Granted an unelected official the power to delete online posts by politicians and ban them from platforms for expressing controversial political opini..."

CorruptionCyberDefamation

C0109 False

3.0

"Lied by claiming that new legislation could not result in dating apps such as Tinder being banned in Australia, when their legislation clearly states ..."

CorruptionCyberDefamation +1 more

C0110 Partially True

5.5

"Granted an unelected person investigative powers to force people to provide documents and answer questions or face imprisonment, without any of the us..."

CyberDefamationEthics +2 more

C0111 Partially True

5.5

"Granted an unelected official the power to mandate facial-recognition scans for adults who want to look at porn. They are not required to consider the..."

CorruptionCyberEthics

C0131 Partially True

6.0

"Invented new non-standard metrics to measure NBN performance, which make Australia appear to rank higher than otherwise."

CyberTech

C0150 Misleading

5.0

"Introduced red tape and distorted the free market by forcing Google to give special insider knowledge of proprietary search algorithm changes to large..."

ABCCyberTech

C0161 True

7.0

"Chose to ignore and not fix a security vulnerability in myGovID, which arose because the chosen authentication protocol is bespoke and does not match ..."

CyberTech

C0185 Partially True

6.0

"Wasted $20.8 billion by investing $29.5 billion in the NBN so poorly that the end result is valued by the Parliamentary Budget Office at only $8.7 bil..."

CyberTaxTech

C0192 Partially True

6.0

"Took 21 days to fix a known security vulnerability in the COVIDSafe app."

COVIDCyberTech

C0193 Partially True

5.0

"Reduced the competitiveness of Australia's technology industry by passing laws which allow the government to force back doors into Australian software..."

CyberEconomyInternational +2 more

C0195 True

8.5

"Ignored security best practices when deploying the COVIDSafe app, choosing not to run a bug bounty, and choosing not to publish the source code prompt..."

COVIDCyberTech

C0198 Partially True

5.0

"Lied when claiming that the USA government cannot view sensitive COVIDSafe data, even though the American encryption back-door laws that allow the US ..."

COVIDCyberTech

C0201 Misleading

5.0

"Introduced a new tax, to incentivise non-NBN users to migrate to the expensive NBN."

CyberEconomyTax +1 more

C0203 Partially True

7.0

"Proposed issuing fines of up to $50,000 to innocent people not suspected of a crime if they don't hand over passwords for their personal devices to la..."

CorruptionCyberEthics +2 more

C0204 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced new laws which allow ASIO officers to spy on Australian citizens without getting approval from a judge or anyone independent, and without f..."

CorruptionCyberTerror

C0206 Partially True

6.5

"Lied by claiming that only a small range of law enforcement agencies will be able to access data under the metadata retention laws, but actually allow..."

CyberTerror

C0220 Partially True

6.5

"Coalition government lied by claiming that cops who abuse data retention powers will be punished, when hundreds of instances of abuse have gone unpuni..."

CorruptionCyberTerror

C0221 True

8.0

"Claimed that their data retention laws would be used mostly for terrorism and child abuse cases, when it actually is used mostly for drug offences."

CyberTerror

C0222 Partially True

5.5

"Proposed expanding the scope of data retention laws to include MAC addresses. Since MAC addresses are hard coded into each device's hardware, this wou..."

CyberTerror

C0229 True

7.0

"Lied by claiming the MyGov website was taken down by a DDOS attack, admitting only hours later that it was due to the more obvious reason, which was a..."

CorruptionCyberTech

C0238 Misleading

3.0

"Removes all mentions of 'consent' from new legislation about sharing of personal data in the public sector."

CyberTech

C0271 Partially True

6.0

"Shared personal information about petition signatories with a private company, without those people's consent, so that the company can send those peop..."

Cyber

C0280 Partially True

7.0

"Lied about the Assistance and Access bill not forcing software developers to make their code less secure. The first item in the bill's list of 'acts o..."

CyberTech

C0298 Partially True

6.5

"Rolled out the My Health Record to the whole country as an opt-out system, despite safety concerns about how abusive stalkers can use it, and despite ..."

COVIDCyberSafety +2 more

C0320 Partially True

6.0

"Exempted a facial recognition system storing data of innocent citizens from standard procurement policy disclosure rules. The excuse is a reliance on ..."

CorruptionCyberTech

C0329 Partially True

6.0

"Banned the Eureka flag and all union symbols and slogans from personal equipment on federal construction sites, no matter how small or subtle they are..."

Culture WarsCyberDefamation +1 more

C0332 Partially True

2.0

"Accidentally exposed the personal health records of millions of Australians, including whether they have had abortions or are on HIV medication."

COVIDCyberWomen

C0333 Partially True

6.5

"Proposed selling biometric data of citizens to private corporations."

CyberPrivatisation

C0334 Partially True

7.0

"Proposed a law to introduce 2 year jail sentences for anyone who uses the Australian Coat of Arms without authorisation, including satirical websites ..."

CyberDefamation

C0337 Partially True

6.5

"Introduced a national facial recognition surveillance program, which will collate faces from CCTV cameras and other sources and share them with privat..."

CyberTech

C0339 Partially True

7.0

"Prohibited public servants from liking social media posts critical of the government, even if anonymous."

CyberDefamation

C0348 Partially True

6.0

"Lied about when they found out about the sale of Medicare data on the black market."

CorruptionCOVIDCyber

C0349 Misleading

6.5

"Claimed to have not suffered a cybersecurity breach after the systems storing sensitive Medicare information had their security breached, and then tha..."

COVIDCyberTech

C0355 True

6.5

"Failed to comply with the mandatory 'Top 4' cyber security strategies, in multiple departments."

CyberTech

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"Did not follow cyber security best practice for COVID digital vaccines. They have no effective way to report vulnerabilities, let alone have bug bount..."

"Kept secret the budgeting documents used to justify changing the NBN rollout from fibre to the premise to fibre to the node."

"Introduced a bill which they called the 'anti-trolling' bill, which doesn't even mention trolling. It does not make trolling illegal. It does not give..."

"Passed legislation for sharing data between law enforcement agencies in different countries, which means we may help countries known to persecute mino..."

"Launched a defamation case against a citizen, charging him $35k because he tweeted something mean about a minister."

"Sat on a review of video game classifications for two years. They did nothing until weeks before the 2022 election, proposing a plan without consultat..."

"Failed to mentioned in the COVIDSafe app privacy policy that information about the phone model and device name (e.g. 'Mary's iPhone') is broadcast ove..."

"Introduced new police powers to spy on and hack innocent Aussies, without a warrant, even if they're not suspected of committing any crime. Powers inc..."

"Proposed forced identification of all social media users, arguing that citizens should not be able to post comments on social media anonymously, and t..."

"Lied by claiming new unprecedented police hacking laws would only apply to terrorists, paedophiles and drug traffickers, when their actual legislation..."

"Introduced legislation designed to make gig economy companies like Deliveroo report more tax information about their employees, which was so sloppily ..."

"Broke their own law by not conducting a report into the privacy impacts and effectiveness of the COVIDSafe app every 6 months."

"Tabled law amendments which would result in charities losing their tax deductible status if they tweet in support of public protests, or display their..."

"Illegally misled voters by creating dozens of Facebook pages for fictional institutes and pages with deceptively similar names to real organisations, ..."

"Sued the ABC for defamation, after they published sexual assault allegations about a unnamed senior politician without identifying him. Private news c..."

"Introduced laws which are supposed to combat the rise in unconsentual sharing of nudes ("revenge porn"), but do not include any punishment for people ..."

"Granted an unelected official the power to delete online posts by politicians and ban them from platforms for expressing controversial political opini..."

"Lied by claiming that new legislation could not result in dating apps such as Tinder being banned in Australia, when their legislation clearly states ..."

"Granted an unelected person investigative powers to force people to provide documents and answer questions or face imprisonment, without any of the us..."

"Granted an unelected official the power to mandate facial-recognition scans for adults who want to look at porn. They are not required to consider the..."

"Invented new non-standard metrics to measure NBN performance, which make Australia appear to rank higher than otherwise."

"Introduced red tape and distorted the free market by forcing Google to give special insider knowledge of proprietary search algorithm changes to large..."

"Chose to ignore and not fix a security vulnerability in myGovID, which arose because the chosen authentication protocol is bespoke and does not match ..."

"Wasted $20.8 billion by investing $29.5 billion in the NBN so poorly that the end result is valued by the Parliamentary Budget Office at only $8.7 bil..."

"Took 21 days to fix a known security vulnerability in the COVIDSafe app."

"Reduced the competitiveness of Australia's technology industry by passing laws which allow the government to force back doors into Australian software..."

"Ignored security best practices when deploying the COVIDSafe app, choosing not to run a bug bounty, and choosing not to publish the source code prompt..."

"Lied when claiming that the USA government cannot view sensitive COVIDSafe data, even though the American encryption back-door laws that allow the US ..."

"Introduced a new tax, to incentivise non-NBN users to migrate to the expensive NBN."

"Proposed issuing fines of up to $50,000 to innocent people not suspected of a crime if they don't hand over passwords for their personal devices to la..."

"Introduced new laws which allow ASIO officers to spy on Australian citizens without getting approval from a judge or anyone independent, and without f..."

"Lied by claiming that only a small range of law enforcement agencies will be able to access data under the metadata retention laws, but actually allow..."

"Coalition government lied by claiming that cops who abuse data retention powers will be punished, when hundreds of instances of abuse have gone unpuni..."

"Claimed that their data retention laws would be used mostly for terrorism and child abuse cases, when it actually is used mostly for drug offences."

"Proposed expanding the scope of data retention laws to include MAC addresses. Since MAC addresses are hard coded into each device's hardware, this wou..."

"Lied by claiming the MyGov website was taken down by a DDOS attack, admitting only hours later that it was due to the more obvious reason, which was a..."

"Removes all mentions of 'consent' from new legislation about sharing of personal data in the public sector."

"Shared personal information about petition signatories with a private company, without those people's consent, so that the company can send those peop..."

"Lied about the Assistance and Access bill not forcing software developers to make their code less secure. The first item in the bill's list of 'acts o..."

"Rolled out the My Health Record to the whole country as an opt-out system, despite safety concerns about how abusive stalkers can use it, and despite ..."

"Exempted a facial recognition system storing data of innocent citizens from standard procurement policy disclosure rules. The excuse is a reliance on ..."

"Banned the Eureka flag and all union symbols and slogans from personal equipment on federal construction sites, no matter how small or subtle they are..."

"Accidentally exposed the personal health records of millions of Australians, including whether they have had abortions or are on HIV medication."

"Proposed selling biometric data of citizens to private corporations."

"Proposed a law to introduce 2 year jail sentences for anyone who uses the Australian Coat of Arms without authorisation, including satirical websites ..."

"Introduced a national facial recognition surveillance program, which will collate faces from CCTV cameras and other sources and share them with privat..."

"Prohibited public servants from liking social media posts critical of the government, even if anonymous."

"Lied about when they found out about the sale of Medicare data on the black market."

"Claimed to have not suffered a cybersecurity breach after the systems storing sensitive Medicare information had their security breached, and then tha..."

"Failed to comply with the mandatory 'Top 4' cyber security strategies, in multiple departments."

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