The Kafkaesque circus that is 2025 Australia has brought on another laugh this week, with the passing of hate speech legislation in parliament.
After a number of Australian nationalist accounts were banned following a podcast appearance with Sam Newman earlier in the week, the Australian government moved quickly to pass pre-planned laws on speech even more severe than Section 18C. Newman was literally on an apology tour within 24 hours and the predictable grovelling/elder abuse commenced.
Making mean comments online or raising your arm at 35 degrees can get you a 12-month stint in jail, with the legal threshold of “recklessness” basically just a made-up excuse to put people they don’t like away.
Minor criticism of any group is now basically a criminal offence.
The bill was guillotined, debate gagged and rammed through in less than two days and given royal assent in less than 24 hours (average 28 days) meaning someone really wants the gulags filled before the election.
Brian Marlow of the Australian Taxpayers Alliance, who jousted with the government in a Senate hearing last year over the Misinformation Bill, did a great deep dive on the bill, explaining also how it may be weaponised against critics of immigration:
The Hate Crimes Bill is yet another dangerous assault on free speech in Australia. It lowers the legal threshold for criminalising speech from intent to recklessness—meaning you could go to jail even if you never intended any harm.
— Brian Marlow (@BrianTaxpayers) February 4, 2025
Temu Trump aka Peter Dutton has now stated he wants to ban trans athletes from women’s sports, while 24 hours earlier championing a bill which prevents you from supporting such a position. He’s also going to campaign on getting tough on China, while building a censorship regime comparable to theirs. James Paterson might also find himself in trouble over critiquing the Gaza refugee intake.
Conservatives who have been defending Israel and the actions of Australia’s Jewish lobby the last 12 months, who were the strongest advocates for this legislation, are now suddenly going to find themselves unable to criticise Islam and the weekly Palestine protests with any confidence – give yourselves another “fell for it again” award guys, well done.
It’s yet another example of how utterly useless and at times, subversive, Australia’s centre-right and freedom movement are at preserving Australians’ freedoms and they can proudly add freedom of speech to the growing list of things they’ve failed to conserve.
One Nation yet again sold out its voters by not even bothering to vote on the legislation. Pauline Hanson didn’t turn up and Malcolm Roberts’ explanation was pathetic – even if it’s a losing battle you still put your sword in the ground to let everyone else know where you stand.
Senator Gerard Rennick was outstanding on the issue and probably the only one in that chamber with a real set.
My take on the whole situation is that the uniparty and its donors didn’t get what they wanted in terms of the Misinformation Bill last year. Then we had a spate of “anti-Semitic attacks” while parliament was in recess, which the AFP stated were largely being foreign funded and most remain unsolved, most notably the infamous Adass Israel Synagogue fire. And voila, the desired manufacture of consent for something much worse was delivered.
Censorship has been a slow march agenda globally for a number of years and blaming Tom Sewell, Joel Davis or the NSN for any of this is ridiculous. They’ve just been further vindicated since the infamous incident on the steps of Victorian Parliament in December.
Should the LNP be appointed the regional managers of the Australian economic zone in April, Dutton and Paterson are going to be in charge of a large national state security apparatus which is going to try to eliminate political dissent. At least, that’s the plan.
The reason for this speedrun into Soviet Union 2.0 is that the Australian regime is losing legitimacy with each passing day as our economy and social contract continues to death spiral, which accelerated with COVID.
The issues of immigration and multiculturalism alone earn the most severe backlashes and ratios imaginable online and the effects thereof are discussed openly now every day. So, they do what they usually do when they can’t ridicule or gaslight you into compliance and turn to silencing.
This time, however, I don’t think it’s going to work. I agree with what others have already said, that this move is a Hail Mary attempt at containment and is just going to massively increase hostility towards Canberra and its foreign occupiers.
They’ll likely do what they’ve always done, which is prosecute a few people early on for “hate speech” (probably the NSN) very publicly and make an example out of them to try and scare the rest of us into self-censorship. That’s all they really can do, as the logistics and cost of enforcement is just unworkable.
The reality is, police in every state and territory are already struggling with workload, let alone recruiting and resignations. Furthermore, corrections services across the country are also at breaking point, with Victoria offering sign-up bonuses to try and get people to join.
This added workload will just be the coup de gras for both of these sectors if they’re intent on jailing you for raising your arm at an angle they don’t like. The other very real possibility is violent offenders get released from prison to make way for political prisoners, a la the UK late last year. Basically, anarcho-tyranny.
They’re also playing a pointless game of whack-a-mole in terms of social media.
Sure, they can ban you off X and Meta, but they can’t do much about Telegram, Gab, Nostr and a slew of others that will spring up in time. In terms of controlling the information regarding a number of previously taboo political topics, that tube of toothpaste has well and truly been squeezed out, especially with the events of the last 18 months, and it’s not going back in.
In short, the great wall of nationalist containment has been well and truly breached and they don’t really know what to do about it other than take the iron fist out of the velvet glove.
So how do we fight it? Marlow had another interesting perspective on this:
A number of people concerned about the Hate Speech Bill have asked how it can be stopped.
Unfortunately, there is no clear pathway to having the legislation scrapped. Labor and the Greens unanimously support it, and I expect only a handful of Coalition and Crossbench Senators to…
— Brian Marlow (@BrianTaxpayers) February 5, 2025
A High Court challenge is another tactic that has been suggested, but the legal workings of this is personally beyond my pay grade and I would defer to those more knowledgeable on how it would possibly transpire.
Further, the obvious counterattack is to take any of the daily examples of antiwhiteism and use the law against them. Clogging up the courts and police with these complaints, and there’s plenty to choose from, will either break the system or force them to repeal on a long enough timeline. At the very least, the APS4 public servant that has to process the complaints will get PTSD. I think we all know that they will not actually prosecute Anglophobia, but it still needs to be done.
However, this isn’t over and in fact all this has done is show more people is where the cracks in Australia are.
It’s up to us to drive the wedges further in and root the problem out, so we can rebuild the foundations of what made the country great in the first place.
Header image credit: Senator Ralph Babet (X).
