00:01At the moment it seems that the short answer is no.
00:05We've heard from several government ministers today indicating and pointing towards the
00:09digital duty of care laws that are getting introduced to Parliament this week as a future
00:13remedy to something like this.
00:15And then they've referred responsibility back onto the social media companies saying that
00:19they should resist from having this vision on their platforms.
00:24And Murray Watt, we've heard from the front bench of Murray Watt on the ABC today who's
00:28saying that there's no plan at the moment, he wouldn't commit to making any legislative
00:32changes to prevent this vision from being shared in Australia.
00:37And this all comes as, as you mentioned, the eSafety Commissioner has said that the Commission
00:41doesn't have the powers to proactively prevent any video of this execution being broadcast
00:47or shared on Australian screens and devices, and has pointed to current regulation that
00:52does mean that these companies do need to protect users from a level of harm.
00:57But in the past that's been criticised as, you know, a toothless tiger approach and basically
01:01has resulted in a situation where vision or videos are getting removed rather than a preventative
01:08approach.
01:09But this all relates to the execution of Nadal Hassan.
01:13He was convicted in the US for killing 13 people and hurting many more during a shooting
01:20at the Fort Hood military base in the US.
01:22Now, he's been sentenced to death by firing squad and it's the first time in the US a
01:27military firing squad has been used for an execution since the Second World War.
01:33And the US President Donald Trump has expressed an openness to this being broadcast live and
01:38the Defence Secretary in the US, Pete Hegseth, has said that he would like people to be able
01:43to watch it live.
01:45But Murray Watt, speaking on the ABC earlier this morning, has been highly critical of that
01:51move.
01:51Let's listen to him.
01:52I just find the idea of a public streaming of a firing squad execution absolutely disgusting.
01:59When I first heard that this was being proposed, I couldn't believe that it was real.
02:03You know, I think all Australians, you know, would agree that this is a very distressing
02:08thing to have publicised.
02:10Despite that, no moves it seems to enact legislation in any form to prevent it being publicised as
02:15it stands.
02:16The Greens are calling on the Government to do anything possible to prevent this video
02:20from reaching Australian audiences.
02:22Barnaby Joyce from One Nation's described it as amphitheatre stuff.
02:26And experts in the tech sector have suggested that one course of action could be to issue
02:33takedown notices that have been used in the past, but have had received pushback from social
02:37media companies and can be a more lengthy process.
