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Australia is standing on the edge of something dangerous. · The Slippery Slope

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  So Australia is standing on the edge of something dangerous and
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  most people don't even realise it yet the government is pushing
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  legislation that is not just misguided, it's not just
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  overreaching, but fundamentally, fundamentally it's evil in its
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  design and in its intense. I believe it's evil.
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  There's no, there's no other way.
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  I, I don't think there's any other way, no polite way, any
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  way to to frame it. When the government uses a
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  national tragedy, this tragedy from Bondi at the very end of
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  last year, it's using it as political leverage to ram
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  through laws that strip away basic freedoms.
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  That is not legit leadership. I've spoken countless times
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  about leadership. What is leadership?
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  The lack of leadership that we have in our nation, I said just
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  after the tragedy in Bondi occurred, that we would see the
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  government use the tragedy to ram through its own agenda, its
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  own at that time, maybe not a hidden agenda, but its own
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  agenda would try and come and it would say, you know, we we're
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  going to fix the problem. And it overlooks the fact that
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  it actually helped cause the problem and it is not actually
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  fixing the issues that were there.
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  It's not looking at its own shortcomings.
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  It's the way the government, the federal government fell short.
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  It's not going to look at the way the police, the NSW Police
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  fell short. There are definitely issues on
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  the ground that need to be fixed, but no, they're going to
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  ram through more legislation, more legislation that strips
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  away freedoms. As I said, that's not
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  leadership, that's manipulation and it should disgust every
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  Australian who values liberty. This bill is a stain on the
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  government who's pushing it, And I say that, but then I think,
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  well, is it a stain or is it actually just the government
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  showing its true colours? This is what the government, the
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  Labour government, the current Labour government under Albanese
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  actually stands for. And this is going to push the
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  political will of everyone in this nation, all of our
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  politicians, if they choose to vote for this, they should be
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  held accountable by the public, politically, morally and
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  historically. So buried beneath the political
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  spin is something far more serious.
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  This bill violates the very human rights Australia claims to
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  uphold. So buried beneath the political
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  spin is something far more serious.
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  This bill violates the very human rights Australia claims to
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  uphold. For instance, Article 18,
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  Freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
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  Article 19, Freedom of opinion and expression.
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  Article 20, Freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
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  But let's not forget that Australia has a track record of
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  this when the dreaded virus came into our nation around
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  2019-2020. Australia, all this government
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  agencies just threw human rights out the door because you know,
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  we've got a tragedy, we've got this crisis here, so we're going
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  to use this crisis to just railroad human rights.
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  Forget about human rights. Human rights only matter when
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  the going is easy. Everything's easy breezy.
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  When the going's tough. Well, human rights don't really
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  matter. That is their current.
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  That's their government in history, and their current
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  government. But The thing is, these aren't
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  fringe ideas. These are fundamental rights
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  recognized globally, and yet our own government is attempting to
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  override them with a single piece of legislation.
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  Anyone supporting this bill is supporting a direct attack on
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  human rights. They should be called out for it
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  loudly and consistently. However, one of the most
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  disturbing parts of the bill appears in Part 5 of Section 18.
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  So on the surface, this may look like it targets intentional hate
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  speech, but when you're looking at it, it's what's actually
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  inside is a legal I'll describe as a trapdoor that flips the
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  entire justice system upside down.
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  The bill introduces strict liability for a key section,
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  meaning intent doesn't matter, awareness doesn't matter, and
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  context doesn't matter. So if someone claims they felt
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  intimidated, harassed or unsafe, even hypothetically, you can be
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  guilty, but not because of what you meant, but because of how
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  someone says they felt. This is the government giving
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  courts the power to punish people based on imagined
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  reactions of an imaginary reasonable person who doesn't
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  even have to exist. So this obviously is not justice
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  and it's definitely not democracy.
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  This is authoritarian authoritarianism dressed up as
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  compassion. Because remember, this is all
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  because of the this is all because of the the tragedy in
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  2025. OK?
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  So it's all about compassion for this event.
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  And and remember this, the Internet is also now a public
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  place. So under this bill, the
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  Internet, this will include private groups that allow
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  membership requests. It is considered a public place,
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  meaning that any comment, any meme, any criticism or any kind
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  of political opinion can all be treated as potential criminal
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  conduct. And because strict liability
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  applies, you can be guilty even if you never intended harm,
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  never targeted anyone, and never imagined someone could twist
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  your words into a threat. This is a legal minefield
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  designed to silence dissents. This will be used as a tool for
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  lawfare, which I've spoken about before too.
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  Funny enough, Australia already has a justice system where you
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  get as much justice as you can afford.
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  If you got the money, well, then you can afford a lot of justice.
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  If you do not have a lot of money, well then justice is not
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  going to be your friend. This bill weaponizes this
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  reality. It invites politically motivated
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  complaints, activist driven lawsuits, taxpayer funded
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  prosecutions. And if you can't afford it, how
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  are you going to be raising the money to fight these complaints
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  to to defend yourself? This will be handing enormous
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  power to those who want to use the courts as a weapon.
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  And then let's look at religion. What this is going to do to
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  religious freedom and religious speech, religious teaching,
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  religious discrimination is baked into the bill.
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  The bill only protects characteristics tied to race,
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  colour, national or ethnic origin.
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  OK, so this means that religions tied to ethnicity are protected.
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  Christians and atheists, they're they're not protected.
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  On top of that, the bill exempts direct quotations from religious
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  texts, which which is actually kind of a good thing.
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  It is a good thing, however, if if those texts contain violent
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  or hateful language, someone can quote a verse calling for
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  violence and the law will protect them.
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  But if you respond critically, if you respond critically to
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  those texts, to those religious texts, OK, calling, being used
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  to call for violence, you can be targeted under the same law.
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  Crikey. That's not equality.
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  That is not fairness. This is ideological preference
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  written into legislation. So the government's
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  justification for this, for this legislation is built on this
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  tragedy that happened in Bondi in 2025, in December.
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  It's this was a horrific, disgusting event.
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  But using a tragedy to justify laws that silence political
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  speech and restrict religious freedoms, it's not helping.
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  It's exploiting grief to expand state power.
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  And history shows that once governments gain powers like
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  these, they rarely, rarely give them back.
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  So we as Australians are at a crossroads.
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  This is just my opinion. This is the most dangerous
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  legislation Australia has seen in years.
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  If it passes, we will be competing with with the UK, the
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  UK who's been, who's been arresting or had the highest
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  number of arrests over social media posts.
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  And that's not something that we want to get into some kind of
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  competition with them for. No way.
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  If major parties support this bill, they will be signalling,
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  they'll be showing that they have abandoned the principles
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  that they claim to stand for supposedly freedom, fairness and
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  the right for everyday Australians.
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  However, we are seeing a turning point.
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  We are seeing this in Australian history.
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  And if we once we do go down this path, if we go down this
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  path, climbing back up the slippery slope will become so
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  much harder. This is all my opinion.
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  I've been talking about this for a while.
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  The government using crisis for its own advantage but not
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  confronting the real issues and not admitting where it itself is
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  at fault and how it has actually caused some of these issues.
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  Like I said, this is all my opinion.
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  My name is Jay Fallon, I am talking on the slippery slope.
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