The complaint illustrates how the commission can be used by politicians to attack each other — one of the main concerns raised by sceptics before it was created by the Federal Labor Government.
With a first term government struggling in the polls, with its primary vote well down even on the last election’s record low, many voters are starting to think they’ve been dudded.
Social media giants could be forced to pay for regulating and enforcing a swath of new laws designed to curb the social, economic and democratic harms they cause.
Federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King faces a worsening revolt from the nation’s most populous states over plans to slash the Commonwealth’s share of funding for national road and railway projects.
