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This is the best summary I could come up with:
One Nation will also campaign against the bill at a free speech conference in Brisbane later in August, with conservative broadcaster Alan Jones a keynote speaker.
In campaign materials Michelle Pearse, the chief executive of the Australian Christian Lobby, claims the bill is a “threat to our religious freedom”.
“The ‘mis-information bill’ is particularly dangerous for Christians who want to express an alternate view to the prevailing woke culture on gender and sexuality and for those who want to speak out against abortion,” she said.
Wendy Francis, ACL’s national director, told Guardian Australia the bill “fails to include any mechanisms to protect valid expression of opinion and belief or to ensure that there are clear and defined limits on suppression of speech”.
Francis cited challenging the “affirmation only” approach to gender transitioning, comments questioning health advice from the chief medical officer and “public discussion on the inappropriateness of conversion therapy legislation, where it extends unjustifiably to prayer” as examples of speech that could be in the firing line.
Christensen’s CitizenGo campaign to “save free speech” came to Canberra on Friday, with two mobile truck billboards outside Old Parliament House warning that the “government is watching you”, even though the changes preserve industry self-regulation.
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