Cameron Wilson

2 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Cameron Wilson

The federal election’s digital campaign is well underway, with enormous amounts of money being poured into online advertisements to get a message to hard-to-reach voters. Across the board, major parties are splashing cash on the advertising platforms of the two biggest players: Google, with its YouTube and Search ads; and Meta’s Facebook, Instagram and other platforms.

2 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Cameron Wilson

At the centre of Australia’s trade dispute with the US is Australia’s tech policy. While Australia was spared the worst of the tariffs and was slapped with a measly 10% duty on goods imported into the US, the case for the trade penalty has been laid out over the first few months of the Trump administration. First, the White House’s executive order on “defending American companies … from overseas extortion” regarding digital regulation and taxes named Australia first out of all countries.

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Cameron Wilson

The battle over who voters trust is a major contest in every election. So why do both major parties kick off each campaign by intentionally misleading as many voters as possible? I’m specifically talking about both the Coalition and Labor creating forms that appear to be postal vote registration forms but are, in reality, data harvesting operations for themselves. Both major parties do it.

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Cameron Wilson

The 2022 federal election was dubbed the “climate election”. The two major parties clashed on climate policy. The country swung toward parties and candidates who pledged to do more about climate change. The teals burst onto the scene and the Greens had their best electoral showing ever. In 2025, both major parties seem to be doing everything they can to avoid mentioning climate at all.

3 weeks ago | crikey.com.au | Cameron Wilson

Australia’s election regulator has reminded a Nuclear for Australia-affiliated group of its legal obligations, as the pro-nuclear lobby group spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to support a policy promoted by the Coalition. In the past week, “Mums for Nuclear” ran more than $16,000 of Facebook and Instagram advertisements, in addition to a newspaper advertisement in The Age.