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Digital Rights and Online Freedom

Oppose making Australia’s existing voluntary Digital ID framework compulsory; seek parliamentary approval and a nationally authorised public vote before any compulsory national identification model.
Protect Australians from surveillance-state overreach, centralised identity tracking, and forced biometric verification.
Defend consumer data rights, internet access freedom, and freedom of speech online.
Protect Australian jurisdiction and security over sensitive national data and cloud services, and assess foreign ownership, access and procurement risks against enforceable standards.
Protect data sovereignty and ban foreign surveillance partnerships.
Develop any legislative or constitutional mechanism needed to make a public vote binding before compulsory national Digital ID is introduced, with transparent privacy and security assessments.
Strengthen transparency, privacy controls and security standards for Commonwealth biometric and digital identity infrastructure.

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Digital Rights and Privacy

Protect Australians from surveillance-state overreach and forced biometric verification, require Australian data jurisdiction and strengthen cyber defences.

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Support domestic development of critical technologies, streamline R&D tax incentives for startups and SMEs, and assess safeguards for national digital infrastructure.

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Introduce the Equality of Arms Principle, extend the proposed Public Justice Equality Scheme, support self-represented litigants and protect freedom of expression and religion.

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