Conspiracy theorists and other opponents of Covid pandemic measures are influencing the referendum debate
Several online identities who grew audiences through anti-Covid lockdown and anti-vaccination activism have organised anti-voice forums and shared anti-voice content in multiple languages.Several online identities who grew audiences through anti-Covid lockdown and anti-vaccination activism have organised anti-voice forums and shared anti-voice content in multiple languages.
“When we think back to that time and how hard and stressful and awful it was, everybody has a residual feeling associated with that time. And they’re playing on that feeling,” she said.The legacy of pandemic-era alliances across Australian communities – sometimes dubbed the “freedom movement” – on the voice can also be seen at events such as the recent anti-voice rallies in capital cities around Australia on 23 September.
At the Sydney rally on 23 September, one of several around the country, the former Liberal MP Ross Cameron stood in front of signs that referred to 5G and 15-minute city conspiracy theories as well as anti-voice slogans.Among the speakers was David Oneeglio, an anti-lockdown activist who has more than 56,000 subscribers on an associated Telegram channel.
“‘They’re going to be entitled to take our house’, ‘They’re going to force us to change the education curriculum’, ‘We’ll have to pay more in tax’ – those are the kinds of statements thrown around in favour of a no vote,” she said. Bruns said he had found pages and groups sharing conspiracy theory content around the voice that were created specifically about the referendum, but others that had grown their membership during the pandemic.
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