Key Takeaways
- The Australian Liberal Party is expected to win this Saturday’s general election, but it blundered today by releasing a policy and immediately withdrawing it.
- Plans to introduce an internet filtering system which would block access to gambling websites were unveiled as a child protection policy.
- The automatic settings for mobile and broadband would opt-out everybody unless they could prove they were over 18 and qualify to opt in.
A little farce briefly entered the Australian general election campaign after the Liberal Party produced a manifesto promise to use internet filtering to block out adult content by default.
Within hours communications spokesman and former party leader Malcolm Turnbull did an about-face and discarded the new policy.
