Australia's PM Anthony Albanese wants Singapore POFMA rules but lacks the intellectual skills - Albanese's plans better served by copying Singapore's POFMA, given its objectives, and British colonial antecedents

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

Australia's PM Anthony Albanese has attacked  Elon Musk in order to defend a failed policy of multiculturalism, and the Muslim voting bloc that his party and he rely on to remain in power. Albanese's attacks on Musk and X are poorly disguised, with the hapless man, who is not known even within his own party for his intellectual skills, reaching for arguments in class, capitalism national security, and Musk's character.

Albanese is clearly floundering (see video above), and his best bet in furthering his plans would be in copying Singapore's POFMA, described by Cherian George in the following terms: 

(The  Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019) has echoes of the colonial-era Sedition Act, which criminalises speech that excites disaffection against the government. But even the drafters of the draconian Sedition Act were reasonable enough to insert a kind of good-faith exception: your speech won’t be considered seditious if it shows that “the Government has been misled or mistaken in any of its measures”.

Albanese should be mature enough to learn from Singapore, and accept that there is still  much for him to learn from Britain, despite his republican agenda. Australians on the other hand ought not pretend that their laws are somehow more liberal than that of Singapore. Their leaders are in fact proposing laws that are much wider( SEE STORY BELOW).

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Australian government threatens Elon Musk-X  with Singapore type POFMA type legislation with expanded powers , concentrated not in a Shanmugam but a public servant from the United States