Tony Abbott recently warned us that ‘conservatives must resist [the] tyranny of officialdom’.

This proved timely, as I’ve just experienced unelected and anonymous bureaucrats at the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) publicly endorsing the view that my political opinion constituted ‘disinformation’.

Given the government’s recent attempts to empower unelected officials to declare opinion as misinformation or disinformation, this should be cause for concern for all Australian voters in the lead-up to an election likely to be close.

In a recent article, I argued there is a historical rule that the Coalition wins government when it scores more than 41 per cent of the primary...