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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

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

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

C0096 Partially True

6.0

"Proposed a robo-debt style program to claw back money from disabled people under the NDIS, waving away all concerns about accuracy and ethics by tacki..."

DisabilityTechWelfare

C0097 True

7.0

"Gave $2.7 million to a private company for a buzzword-rich trial about blockchain and distributed energy."

TaxTech

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

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

C0131 Partially True

6.0

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

CyberTech

C0135 Misleading

4.0

"Introduced a scheme to pay community broadcasters to give up spectrum rights, and possibly force the SBS and ABC to give up their spectrum rights, wit..."

ABCCulture WarsTech

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

C0187 Partially True

6.5

"Introduced a new online service for helping allocated assets during a divorce, which uses a proprietary, immature, inscrutable black-box technology ju..."

Tech

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

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

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

C0321 Partially True

6.0

"Threw $700k at blockchain buzzword projects."

TaxTech

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

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

C0359 Partially True

5.0

"Spent $12M per year on flights for NBN staff."

CyberTaxTech

C0361 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced a new tax, of at least $7.10 per month per NBN fixed line user."

CyberEconomyTax +1 more

C0379 Partially True

6.0

"Introduced NBN 'Fibre to the curb', which is almost identical to the 'Fibre to the premise' approach they criticised."

CyberTech

C0408 Misleading

4.0

"Introduced a second internet filter. Internet consumers will be forced pay their telcos to block websites which foreign film companies dislike. The Li..."

ABCCorruptionCyber +4 more

C0466 Partially True

5.0

"Proposed new broad powers for the Attorney-General so that the government can demand that telcos do unspecified 'things', which could include filterin..."

CyberTechTerror

C0472 True

7.0

"Told myGov users to downgrade the security on their account when travelling overseas, which is when security risks are highest."

CyberTech

C0474 True

6.0

"Paid Telstra $80 million to fix the copper network which Telstra sold to the government."

CyberTaxTech

C0494 Partially True

5.0

"Spent $18.5 million on a facial recognition program to log and spy on every Australian, store social media photos and potentially conduct live trackin..."

CyberTechTerror

C0518 Partially True

6.0

"Spent $14.4 million to get support for outdated and insecure software, instead of using current versions."

CyberTaxTech

C0554 Partially True

5.0

"Spent $700,000 to rebrand 'NBN Co' to 'nbn TM'."

CyberTaxTech

C0566 Partially True

7.0

"Accidentally leaked the personal details of 31 world leaders, and chose not to notify them. They still claim your metadata will be safe though."

CorruptionCyberTech +1 more

C0575 Partially True

5.0

"Prosecuted a white hat hacker who exposed serious security vulnerabilities of some of the ISPs who store the sensitive data of all Australians under t..."

CorruptionCyberTech +1 more

C0582 True

6.0

"Exempted Gmail, Skype and Facebook from their data-retention scheme, thereby significantly reducing its effectiveness. They are exempted because they ..."

CyberTechTerror

C0586 Misleading

4.0

"Spent $17 million on a social media internet filter, allegedly to stop terrorist propaganda. The government believes that peaceful environmental prote..."

CyberTaxTech +1 more

C0606 Partially True

7.0

"Introduced a $900 NBN fee for all new houses."

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..."

"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..."

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

"Proposed a robo-debt style program to claw back money from disabled people under the NDIS, waving away all concerns about accuracy and ethics by tacki..."

"Gave $2.7 million to a private company for a buzzword-rich trial about blockchain and distributed energy."

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

"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..."

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

"Introduced a scheme to pay community broadcasters to give up spectrum rights, and possibly force the SBS and ABC to give up their spectrum rights, wit..."

"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..."

"Introduced a new online service for helping allocated assets during a divorce, which uses a proprietary, immature, inscrutable black-box technology ju..."

"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..."

"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."

"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 ..."

"Threw $700k at blockchain buzzword projects."

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

"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."

"Spent $12M per year on flights for NBN staff."

"Introduced a new tax, of at least $7.10 per month per NBN fixed line user."

"Introduced NBN 'Fibre to the curb', which is almost identical to the 'Fibre to the premise' approach they criticised."

"Introduced a second internet filter. Internet consumers will be forced pay their telcos to block websites which foreign film companies dislike. The Li..."

"Proposed new broad powers for the Attorney-General so that the government can demand that telcos do unspecified 'things', which could include filterin..."

"Told myGov users to downgrade the security on their account when travelling overseas, which is when security risks are highest."

"Paid Telstra $80 million to fix the copper network which Telstra sold to the government."

"Spent $18.5 million on a facial recognition program to log and spy on every Australian, store social media photos and potentially conduct live trackin..."

"Spent $14.4 million to get support for outdated and insecure software, instead of using current versions."

"Spent $700,000 to rebrand 'NBN Co' to 'nbn TM'."

"Accidentally leaked the personal details of 31 world leaders, and chose not to notify them. They still claim your metadata will be safe though."

"Prosecuted a white hat hacker who exposed serious security vulnerabilities of some of the ISPs who store the sensitive data of all Australians under t..."

"Exempted Gmail, Skype and Facebook from their data-retention scheme, thereby significantly reducing its effectiveness. They are exempted because they ..."

"Spent $17 million on a social media internet filter, allegedly to stop terrorist propaganda. The government believes that peaceful environmental prote..."

"Introduced a $900 NBN fee for all new houses."

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