Speaking on ABC's program on Monday night, Solomon said Australia was constantly brought up in conversations he had with organisations around the world.

"Have you ever heard an American ambassador stand up publicly and say 'we're having healthy discussion with Australia'," he said. "We're in two wars with America and I've never heard that phrase.

"I've been to meeting after meeting internationally, and Australia is raised at every meeting."

Current GetUp national director, Simon Sheikh, told that the Electronic Frontiers Foundation in the US and even Chinese newspapers were some of the parties contributing to a disparate but interested view on the progress of Australia's proposed Internet filter.

"The Western international community do seem to be condemning the net filter," he said. "However, we get translations of Chinese newspapers that point to Australia as an example of positive censorship. From our point of view, when China is pointing to you in their local state-run newspapers as a positive example on the issue of censorship in Australia, surely something's going wrong."