NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian is in daily combat with counterparts in Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia which all blocked off the state during the latest outbreak
Acting Australian Prime Minister Critical of Big Tech Trump Ban
Australia’s Acting Prime Minister Michael McCormack has criticized social media giant Twitter for banning U.S. President Donald Trump from its platform.
McCormack told ABC radio on Monday that it was not up to Big Tech to decide whose voices were heard.
“I don’t believe in that sort of censorship,” the National Party leader said.
“There’s been a lot of people who have said and done a lot of things on Twitter previously that haven’t received that sort of condemnation or indeed censorship,” he added.
In fact, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s controversial Twitter post, which sparked national and international outrage, is still pinned to the top of his feed.
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Australian shares erase their early gains to close marginally lower, Twitter shares tumble after the platform bans Donald Trump's account, and US markets slip from record highs as a stellar COVID-19 vaccine rally loses momentum.