Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes has dismissed the Morrison government's plan to stop protesters boycotting companies they oppose, declaring all Australians had a "basic right" to try to force a business to change its behaviour.

Mr Cannon-Brookes broke with other business leaders to attack the government proposal on the grounds that Australia had a "proud history" of protest on women's rights, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and opposing wars in Vietnam and Iraq...