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Australia always tries these types of laws, they tried a Great Wall of China-like firewall a few years ago it didn't go anywhere. I suspect this will be the same.

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Do you mean the "ISP-only" DNS restrictions of 2016? That was just a lame attempt to appease the film and media companies. Unfortunately for Aus Gov, DNS registries are not solely operated by Australia.

What's particularly strange to me is that devices such as Google WiFi come preconfigured to point at Google's DNS, so a layman in Australia will be bypassing these blocks without deliberately doing so.

It did have some interesting effects though. I know of several of my old school acquaintances who were very technologically challenged that managed to navigate their network settings far enough to change DNS.

The mandatory filtering proposal was rejected before hitting parliament.

AABill has already been accepted.

Rejected? Yes, but the filtering has been active for a while now. Labor gave up but got AFP to censor for child porn etc. Liberals in power extended it to copyright infringement.

It's definitely a bipartisan policy for Internet censorship in Australia. Most Australians don't care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_Austral...

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