Much has been made of Julie Inman Grant’s totalitarian tendencies to crackdown on Australians’ free speech under the guise of ‘misinformation and disinformation’. These tendencies were on full display when, earlier this month, Inman Grant gave a speech at Government House in Sydney lamenting the fact that after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, ‘unhinged conspiracy theorists’ were able to ‘spin mistruths’ more quickly than the government was able to report the ‘facts’.