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Where To From Here? · The Slippery Slope

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  Get my straight ahead. Get my head in the.
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  Game with the red light on. I'm just waiting for the change.
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  Head down low. Hi, I'm Jay Fallon, and thank
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  you for listening to the Slippery Slope podcast.
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  So if you'd asked me in 2025 what I was doing for work, I
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  would have told you with a straight face that I was
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  building a future. I had my business, I had music
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  royalties. Now I do some music.
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  I don't get out and play live a lot anymore, but I do make some
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  some money out of music royalties.
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  That's why I always say, hey, please go out and check out my
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  music. And I have this podcast, all the
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  work I do online. And I honestly believed the
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  slippery slope was on track to become my main income.
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  The numbers were climbing, YouTube was growing and for once
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  it felt like hard work was actually paying off.
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  So that was 2025 and I can tell you that that's what I would
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  have said because I had those conversations with people and
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  that is what I told people. So then December rolled around
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  and Australia's new social media laws arrived like a Wrecking
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  Ball wrapped in we're doing this for the kids branding.
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  And overnight my views didn't just drop, they fell off a
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  Cliff. Apparently the government
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  decided the best way to protect young people was to make sure
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  adults can't speak freely either, because nothing says
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  safety like treating everyone as if they're 12.
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  And I thought I, silly me, I had thought I'd be fine.
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  I thought, well, I don't have a young audience anyway.
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  I'd been looking at my stats, looking, thinking, mate, I don't
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  have anyone basically under 25 listening to me at all.
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  Turns out the laws weren't about young people at all, they were
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  about control. Silly me for assuming otherwise.
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  And while that was happening, Australia suffered the Bondi
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  terrorist attack. Now from the moment the details
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  came out, it was painfully obvious that this wasn't just a
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  tragedy, it was a leadership failure a in my opinion.
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  I looked at it with my policing experience and what I'd done
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  working in working in special operations unit.
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  This to me seemed a predictable, preventable failure.
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  But of course, no one in charge wanted to say that.
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  I spoke about it. I talked about risk assessments,
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  You know, that's the thing that police leadership are supposed
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  to do before large public events.
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  I have sat in meetings when we're going on, we're trying to
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  organise operations, organise events, operations and people
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  just openly talking about the risks, what the risk assessments
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  are, where we're going, how we're going to mitigate risks.
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  These aren't discussions that just happen supposedly in a
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  vacuum. It's not just one person should
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  be. I've been in these meetings
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  where people, high-ranking officers discussing these
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  things. So at these events, especially
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  an event involving Jewish Australians after years of
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  protests and open hostility towards Israel, a risk
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  assessment should have been done, should have been conducted
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  by police leadership. That should be bread and butter
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  for police in New South Wales. But apparently expecting police
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  leadership to anticipate risk is asking too much.
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  Apparently, leadership now means showing up after the fact and
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  reading a prepared statement about how no one could have seen
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  this coming. Right then I looked at the
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  federal government's funding decisions.
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  I did that episode about it, about, you know, funding jihad
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  because the federal government had been giving money to the
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  Grand Mufti of Australia even after the Grand mufti had
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  publicly declared jihad on Israel.
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  And I thought surely, surely someone will question this.
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  But no silence, absolute silence.
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  And then then comes the new hate speech laws, which I spoke
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  about, which is that, you know, you have a crisis.
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  So what happens with the crisis? They use the crisis to bring in
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  new laws, to bring in new to, you know, control, to bring in
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  new controls towards the everyday person.
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  So new hate speech laws, laws that somehow managed to avoid
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  addressing extremism entirely, but they do a fantastic job of
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  targeting everyday Australians for saying things that someone
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  might find uncomfortable. It's almost impressive.
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  Not useful, but impressive. And when you pull all of this
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  together, the social media laws, the hate speech laws, the
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  refusal to take responsibility for Bondi, you start to see a
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  pattern. A pattern where leadership
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  fails, leadership denies responsibility, leadership
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  blames the public, and leadership tightens the rules on
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  what the public is allowed to say.
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  It's not about safety. It's not about harmony.
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  It's about making sure criticism becomes illegal.
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  If you'd asked me last year what I was doing for work, I would
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  have told you I had a plan. I was building something I felt
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  was meaningful and I believed I was on the right path.
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  Now. Now I look at my own country and
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  I feel doubt. I'm recording this on Australia
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  Day, January 26, 2026. Australia Day Now I look at my
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  own country. I feel doubt, I feel
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  apprehension and I feel like the Australia I grew up in, the
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  Australia that was young and free, has been replaced by a
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  nation where hurt feelings carry more weight than accountability.
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  We have leaders who don't lead. We have bureaucrats who don't
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  take responsibility. We have police leadership that
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  treats risk assessments like optional homework, and we have
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  laws designed to silence anyone who points out the flipping
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  obvious. I no longer feel confident that
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  I can end the podcast by saying that's my opinion without
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  wondering whether someone will claim emotional damage and try
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  to shut me down, to shut down the slippery slope.
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  I look at this nation and I barely recognize it anymore.
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  But that is just my opinion. I'm Jay Fallon and thank you for
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  listening to The Slippery Slope They.
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  Just feel the desire they will take me higher.
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  I'm on fire because nothing's gonna bring me down.
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  Nothing's going to stop me now. No one deals to be done.
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  Nothing 's going to stop me now and nothing's going to hold me
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  down. Got my eye on the eyes, got my
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  side on the crimes. It seems No sight, nothing 's
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  going to.