Freedom of speech has won a decisive victory in Australia. On Tuesday, a Melbourne tribunal <a href="https://adfinternational.org/news/free-speech-victory-in-australia-for-billboard-chris-as-x-post-censorship-overturned">overturned</a> the Australian government’s censorship order against Canadian street advocate Chris “<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=support+billboard+chris+adf+international&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8">Billboard Chris</a>” Elston for an X post critical of gender ideology.
Back in 2024, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner had ordered X to remove Chris’ post, claiming it constituted “adult cyber abuse” under the country’s Online Safety Act. The post linked to a Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13119521/Sex-secrets-trans-kinky-Australian-bondage-bestiality-nudism-drugs-sex-change.html">article</a> about a WHO appointee and referred to the individual using biologically accurate pronouns. No threats. No private information. Just public facts and an opinion the government didn’t like. X initially resisted, but eventually geo-blocked the post in the country while filing its own appeal.
Billboard Chris, who travels the world engaging in conversations exposing the truth about gender ideology prompted by his wearable signs, refused to bow down to the order. With legal support from ADF International and the Human Rights Law Alliance, he challenged the eSafety Commissioner, and won in a decisive victory not just for himself, but for everyone who values the right to speak freely.
The Administrative Review Tribunal found what should have been obvious from the beginning — the post wasn’t intended to cause harm, wasn’t likely to be seen by the complainant, and was consistent with Chris’s well-known public message — namely, that children are never born in the wrong body. It ruled clearly that this did not constitute a form of abuse and revoked the takedown order.
The Tribunal recognized what the eSafety Commissioner refused to acknowledge, which is that this isn’t about harassment of any kind. The protection of Chris’ expression is about upholding the basic right to participate in a public conversation, one that touches on some of the most urgent questions of our time. To silence that conversation under the guise of “cyber abuse” is both intellectually dishonest and dangerous.
The absurdity of the government’s case was exposed in the hearing itself. Chris had merely reposted a widely read article that included publicly available information about the transgender activist appointed to a WHO panel of “experts” — information the activist had willingly shared on social media. Instead of defending public transparency, the government claimed those details were irrelevant and demanded censorship.
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The Tribunal’s written decision was clear: “The post, although phrased offensively, is consistent with views Mr Elston has expressed elsewhere in circumstances where the expression of the view had no malicious intent. For example, his statement placed on billboards that he is prepared to wear in public ‘children are never born in the wrong body’ expresses the same idea about the immutability of biology that he expresses, albeit much more provocatively, in the post”. Further, it held that, “an ordinary reasonable person would not conclude that that it is likely that the post was intended to have an effect of causing serious harm to Mr Cook”.
This case is about more than just one post or even one country’s speech laws. Not only will this decision likely shape future enforcement decisions, but also Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, has just been <a href="https://x.com/k_mahlburg/status/1939872951895302531">named</a> in a U.S. congressional investigation for colluding with foreign governments and corporate cartels to suppress speech worldwide — including in the United States. The U.S. House Judiciary Committee <a href="https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/2025-06/Exporting%20Censorship%20Final.pdf">released</a> a 100-page report detailing how Grant worked with GARM — a World Economic Forum-linked advertising consortium — to push platforms like X into silencing disfavored views. She demanded global takedowns of lawful content. She participated in pressure campaigns against X after Musk’s takeover. And she allowed so-called “brand safety” coalitions to influence her regulatory decisions.
This is coordinated censorship. The report lays out how GARM and other WEF-affiliated coalitions, working with officials like Grant, sought to blacklist voices they disagreed with under the pretense of maintaining a “safe” internet. In reality, they were constructing a global censorship machine — one that’s ideologically aligned, politically unaccountable, and willing to cross borders to silence dissent. Billboard Chris&#8217; case is living proof of what this looks like.
If the Tribunal had sided with the Commissioner, it would have emboldened this aggressive censorship campaign and reinforced the idea that a government can suppress the speech of any person on any platform, even beyond traditional jurisdictional boundaries. And make no mistake — that’s exactly what the eSafety Commissioner and its allies are trying to do.
Fortunately, Billboard Chris’ free speech victory is a warning to the censors. He stood up to a system designed to silence him, and he won. But the same people trying to censor speech in Australia are working to do the same everywhere else. 
On the same day of Chris’ victory, the European Union took a significant step toward strengthening online censorship, beefing up its censorial Digital Services Act by enforcing the accompanying &#8220;Code of Conduct on Disinformation&#8221;. The DSA enables Brussels bureaucrats to control online speech at scale — both in Europe and globally — under the guise of “safety” and “protecting democracy”. Platforms that fail to remove content ambiguously deemed “illegal” face massive financial penalties and even suspension. Coupled with the framework’s approach to “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “hate speech,” the DSA could lead to the sweeping removal of online content.
Threats to free speech online are evidently immense and growing, but Billboard Chris’ successful challenge shows that this tide can be turned. Courageous individuals, armed with principle and the law, can stand up to the censorship industrial complex — and win. And their victories protect not just their own speech, but those too who would come after them. Others must be emboldened by the lead of this Canadian father and vigilantly defend against censorship if we are to see free speech prevail.
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Robert Clarke is a barrister and director of advocacy for ADF International, which coordinated the legal defense of Billboard Chris in Australia. Follow him on X at <a href="https://x.com/Rob_ADFIntl?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">Rob_ADFIntl</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Tuesday after five Western governments imposed sanctions on them for “extremist rhetoric.”
The countries sanctioning the two Israeli cabinet members include Canada, the United Kingdom, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia. They released <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-ministers-joint-statement-on-measures-targeting-itamar-ben-gvir-and-bezalel-smotrich">a joint statement</a> claiming the officials had “incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights” in Judea and Samaria, also known as the West Bank.
“These sanctions do not advance U.S.-led efforts to achieve a ceasefire, bring all hostages home, and end the war,” Rubio <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1932536569107525916">said in a statement</a>. “We reject any notion of equivalence: Hamas is a terrorist organization that committed unspeakable atrocities, continues to hold innocent civilians hostage, and prevents the people of Gaza from living in peace.”
Rubio added that the United States “urges the reversal of the sanctions” and “stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel.”
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The sanctions reportedly include travel bans and asset freezes, though the ministers are not known to have any assets in those countries.
In the five countries’ statement, they claim that the situation in Judea and Samaria cannot be viewed separately from “the catastrophe” in Gaza. They added that they are &#8220;appalled by the immense suffering of civilians, including the denial of essential aid” and that they oppose “unlawful transfer of Palestinians from Gaza or within the West Bank” or any reduction of the territory of the Gaza Strip.
The countries accuse Ben-Gvir and Smotrich of “extremist rhetoric” including allegedly advocating for the “forced displacement of Palestinians and the creation of new Israeli settlements.”
Both Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are the Israeli boogeymen to the Israeli Left and Western media due to their extremely nationalistic and hawkish right-wing views, including for the expansion of settlements in Judea and Samaria and support for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/israel-announces-plans-to-create-an-emigration-administration-to-relocate-gazans">relocating Gazans</a> from the Gaza Strip.
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Smotrich responded <a href="https://x.com/bezalelsm/status/1932419325865889825">in a speech</a> on Tuesday while he was inaugurating the new Israeli settlement “Mitzpe Ziv” in the Hebron Hills.
“I heard that Britain had decided to impose sanctions on me for obstructing the establishment of the Palestinian state,” he said. “The timing couldn&#8217;t be better.”
He added that Britain has already once attempted to prevent Jews from “settling in the cradle of our homeland” and that “we are determined to continue building.”
In the five countries’ statement, they repeatedly mention the two-state solution, a plan for both an Israeli and Palestinian state, claiming that it is “extremist rhetoric” to reject such a plan.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Huckabee said that the United States no longer backs the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, in an interview with Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-10/us-holds-deep-doubts-about-palestinian-state-ambassador-says">published Tuesday</a>.
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Ben-Gvir also responded to the sanctions on Tuesday, claiming that these countries are attacking Israel while they have their own internal issues to worry about.
“While the European colonial countries fantasize that we Jews are still their subjects, the streets of their famous cities are being taken over by radical Islam,” <a href="https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/1932455261756653815">he wrote</a>. “But their campaign of appeasement for the Hamas terrorists will not save them. When they finally wake up, it will be too late!”
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Moments after being protested by a bottle-throwing crowd near Yale University, Itamar Ben-Gvir sat down with me to discuss the stark contrast between his VIP treatment at Mar-a-Lago and the hostile reception from anti-Israel students.
Here’s what he said: <a href="https://t.co/KoNVqyP66W">pic.twitter.com/KoNVqyP66W</a>
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In April, protesters near Yale University <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-israels-national-security-minister-responds-to-bottle-throwing-yale-crowd">hurled bottles</a> at Ben-Gvir during his trip to the United States, just a day after he was welcomed by applause from a crowd filled with Trump allies and members of Congress at Mar-a-Lago. He told The Daily Wire that the reception likely wouldn’t have happened if President Donald Trump had lost because he was detested by the Biden administration.
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“It would have been likely that they would not admit me and here I am today, from a situation where I was a persona-non-grata, to a situation where I am being loved,” he said. “I enter their room and there is an applause for what I say, on our ideas, on our world view, on the fact that I want a big and strong state of Israel.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said that the government will call a special meeting next week to determine how to respond to the “outrageous, unacceptable decision” by the five Western governments, <a href="https://www.jns.org/london-to-sanction-ben-gvir-smotrich-over-anti-hamas-comments/">Jewish News Syndicate reported</a>.
“It is outrageous that elected representatives and members of the government are subjected to these kinds of measures,” Sa’ar stated.

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An Australian journalist was struck by a rubber bullet fired by law enforcement during a live shot covering a violent anti-ICE protest in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.
Lauren Tomasi of 9News Australia, a CNN affiliate, was conducting a live broadcast when she was struck with the non-lethal projectile.
Video of the Sunday afternoon incident shows Tomasi standing to the side of an intersection in downtown Los Angeles as armed police officers confronted protesters.
“After hours of standing off, this situation has now rapidly deteriorated, the LAPD moving in on horseback, firing rubber bullets at protesters, moving them on through the heart of LA,” Tomasi said moments before she was hit.
In the video, an outraged bystander can be heard yelling at officers, “You just shot the f***ing reporter!”
Tomasi shrieks and limps away after the impact, telling bystanders, “I’m good.”
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U.S. Correspondent Lauren Tomasi has been caught in the crossfire as the LAPD fired rubber bullets at protesters in the heart of Los Angeles. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/9News?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#9News</a>
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The Australian journalist was left sore but not seriously injured, while her country&#8217;s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued a statement saying, &#8220;all journalists should be able to do their work safely,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/09/us/la-protests-immigration-ice-trump">according</a> to The New York Times.
It remains unclear whether the officer had deliberately aimed at the journalist, and the LAPD stated to the Times that it did not have &#8220;any comment or statement on any specific incident pertaining to the protests.&#8221;
The LAPD did issue several “unlawful assembly” declarations over the weekend, warning media members to “please keep a safe distance from active operations.”
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An UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY has been declared for the Civic Center area of DTLA. 
A number of people have been arrested. 
All people are to stay away from the Civic Center area of DTLA. 
Effected areas: Alameda ~ Los Angeles St ~ Aliso ~ Commercial ~ Main St ~ Spring St ~ Temple…
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Rubber bullets have been regularly used by law enforcement for crowd control for years, but they can cause serious injury, as was the case for a British journalist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jun/09/australian-reporter-shot-with-rubber-bullet-while-covering-anti-ice-protests-in-los-angeles">hospitalized</a> by a rubber bullet over the weekend.
The Los Angeles anti-ICE protests, which began somewhat peacefully early Saturday after reported raids in the area, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tom-homan-says-national-guard-moving-into-la-to-shut-down-anti-ice-riots">deteriorated</a> into more chaotic scenes by late afternoon, leading President Donald Trump to deploy thousands of National Guard troops in the afternoon.
The violence <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-vows-to-liberate-los-angeles-shut-down-migrant-riots-and-insurrectionist-mobs?topStoryPosition=undefined&amp;author=Leif+Le+Mahieu&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=1&amp;rowHeadline=Top+Stories&amp;rowType=Top+Stories&amp;title=Trump+Vows+To+%E2%80%98Liberate+Los+Angeles%2C%E2%80%99+Shut+Down+%E2%80%98Migrant+Riots%E2%80%99+And+%E2%80%98Insurrectionist+Mobs%E2%80%99">continued</a> on Sunday afternoon, with rioters throwing objects and concrete at officers, setting vehicles on fire, and shooting “commercial grade fireworks” at law enforcement.

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The approval of leftist leaders in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom has surged since President Donald Trump took office in January and began implementing his economic and foreign policy agendas.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/trump-world-left-leaders-polling-43095b2f?mod=hp_lead_pos6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Thursday that the reaction to the beginning of Trump&#8217;s second administration has given new life to liberal leaders who previously looked destined for defeat in upcoming elections. Trump&#8217;s massive tariffs imposed on nearly every country in the world are the top issue that appears to be driving support for leftist leaders.
The biggest swing following Trump&#8217;s inauguration came in Canada, where the ruling Liberal Party appeared dead in the water until Trump imposed a tariff on Canadian goods and suggested making Canada the 51st state.
Trump&#8217;s policies and attitude toward Canada have appeared to turn the upcoming prime minister election on its head — shifting from a likely flip to the Conservative Party to potentially remaining in the hands of the Liberal Party and leftist Prime Minister Mark Carney. The Conservatives, led by Pierre Poilievre, were ahead of the Liberals by more than 20 points in the polls, but now the Liberals lead by around 4 points, according to the WSJ. Poilievre and his Conservative Party hope to gain back support among Canadians, who will go to the polls on Monday.
In Australia, which is holding elections on May 3, Left-leaning Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is now ahead in the polls by more than 10 points after trailing his conservative opponent, Peter Dutton, by six points in January. The jump in support for Albanese coincides with Australians losing trust in the U.S. government, according to polling results from the Lowy Institute. The think tank found that only 36% of Australians have any level of trust in the United States to act responsibly, the WSJ reported. That was down from 56% last year.
The United Kingdom&#8217;s Left-leaning Labour Party is still struggling with its approval rating, sitting at just 29%, but that&#8217;s an 8-point increase from February. The upward trend in approval for the British Labour Party followed Prime Minister Keir Starmer&#8217;s meeting with Trump at the White House in late February to discuss tariffs and the war in Ukraine. Starmer has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ev43vqj49o" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vowed</a> to &#8220;only strike a [trade] deal&#8221; with Trump &#8220;if it&#8217;s in the national interest.&#8221; Earlier this month, an Ipsos poll showed a 17-point drop in the number of Britons who agreed that the United Kingdom has a &#8220;special relationship&#8221; with the United States, down to 30%.
Conservative leaders in Canada and Australia are trying to navigate Trump&#8217;s policies as they seek to regain support ahead of their elections. Poilievre, a popular figure on the Canadian Right, has pushed &#8220;Canada First&#8221; campaign messaging, similar to Trump&#8217;s &#8220;America First&#8221; slogan. The Canadian parliamentarian has also amassed a large following among Canadian and some American conservatives for his viral critiques of the legacy media and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Despite his similarities to Trump, Poilievre has been careful to differentiate himself from the U.S. president and has strongly opposed Trump&#8217;s tariffs that are now affecting the Canadian economy, calling Trump&#8217;s move &#8220;historic mistreatment of Canada.&#8221; Poilievre&#8217;s strategy is showing signs of success, as the Conservative Party has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-party-surges-ahead-of-canadian-election-as-concerns-over-trump-seem-to-wane-poll" target="_blank" rel="noopener">regained</a> some ground on the Liberals, according to a CTV News-Globe and Mail-Nanos poll released earlier this week. According to the survey, Conservatives have narrowed the gap from 5.6 points to 3.6 points.
Dutton, the Australian conservative candidate, has pushed policies similar to those implemented by Trump, such as seeking to radically cut government spending. Dutton, however, has called Trump comparisons a &#8220;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/05/donald-trump-in-the-white-house-seemed-like-a-plus-for-peter-dutton-but-after-this-week-maybe-not-so-much" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sledge</a>&#8221; used to attack him, adding that “the government doesn’t have a good story to tell.”

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Amid all the talk about tariffs with China, and how they steal America&#8217;s intellectual property and establish all kinds of trade barriers with this country, you might have missed this story. It&#8217;s not about economics, but at the same time, it tells you a lot about what authoritarian countries like China fear the most.
Beginning on May 1, China will accelerate its crackdown on religion, and Christianity in particular. Foreign missionaries will be banned from preaching unless they obtain formal approval from the government.
According to Chinese <a href="https://www.persecution.org/2025/04/04/china-moves-to-formally-ban-missionary-activity/">state media</a>, the goal of the new regulation is to protect &#8220;national security&#8221; and &#8220;political stability&#8221; by forcing people to attend official, state-run religious services with pre-approved messaging. Additionally, Chinese state media has recently boasted about the fact that religious groups — which the government calls &#8220;cult organizations&#8221; — have been increasingly shut down in China. At this point, one of the fastest ways to disappear in China is to deliver a sermon that upsets the ruling party.
Of course, this is the exact opposite of the result we were promised when the United States normalized free trade with China several decades ago. As Bill Clinton put it, “Membership in the W.T.O. will not create a free society in China overnight or guarantee that China will play by global rules. &#8230; But over time, I believe it will move China faster and further in the right direction.”
That hasn&#8217;t happened. Instead, China is now aggressively moving to crush Christians, for the simple reason that Christians believe in a higher power than their government. We have not introduced Western norms to China. We have not exported our values to them. Instead, despite the promises of free trade, China has successfully exported its totalitarian impulses to the West. One by one, Western countries are adopting anti-Christian crackdowns, to the point that they&#8217;re making it illegal for Christians to practice their faith.
What&#8217;s happening right now in New South Wales, which is a state on the east coast of Australia, makes this very clear. Earlier this month, something called the &#8220;Conversion Practices Ban Act of 2024&#8221; became law in New South Wales. This law, by its own terms, allows the authorities to arrest Christians for praying. That is not an exaggeration or an overstatement. It&#8217;s actually <a href="https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-2024-019">written</a> into the legislation. From <a href="https://antidiscrimination.nsw.gov.au/discrimination/conversion-practices/frequently-asked-questions.html#What4">the government</a> of New South Wales: &#8220;Praying with or over a person with the intent to change or suppress their sexuality or gender identity is unlawful. It is unlawful even if that person has asked you to pray for them to be able to change or suppress their sexuality or gender identity.&#8221;
This again is in Australia, a western nation. Not China. Praying with someone who wants you to pray with them could land you in jail. That&#8217;s happening right now, in a supposed western democracy.
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In other words, if someone wants to pray to God so that he can overcome his gender dysphoria — a condition that, by definition, causes significant mental distress — then his pastor cannot pray with him. In fact, his own family members cannot pray with him. If the police discover that any unapproved prayers have been occurring, they can kick down the doors of the church, or the family home, and haul away the violators. And then they&#8217;ll spend up to five years in prison for their crimes against the state: The crime of praying.
Just to emphasize this point, the government of New South Wales published the single most Orwellian video you&#8217;ll ever see. No matter how many times you&#8217;ve heard the word &#8220;Orwellian,&#8221; believe me, this qualifies. This is the government&#8217;s attempt to intimidate the millions of people who live in New South Wales, with their new law that bans prayer. 
Here&#8217;s how the video begins:
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First of all, by the terms of this legislation, every single gender activist in Australia is a criminal. They all believe, without exception, that you can choose to be &#8220;LGBTQA&#8221; (which is apparently the acronym now). There&#8217;s no other way to explain people who ping-pong between genders at will, or people who de-transition. In fact the concept of “fluidity” is now dogma in the LGBT religion. Fluidity — sexual fluidity, gender fluidity — means that you can change at will from one sexuality or gender to another. If someone identifies as a Bi-gender Toasterkin, and then a few weeks later decides he&#8217;s really a Demi-gender, half-humanoid alpaca, or whatever, then at some point, we can conclude that this person made a choice to identify in some arbitrary way. And every step of the way, gender activists — according to the tenets of their ideology — have no choice but to affirm everything. This is one of the reasons trans activists keep losing in court, by the way. They have to admit that, under their logic, so-called &#8220;Trans people&#8221; can choose, at any time, to be trans or not trans. And therefore, because &#8220;trans status&#8221; is malleable — again, malleable by definition, by THEIR definition —  they&#8217;re not entitled to civil rights protections, which only apply to immutable, unchanging traits.
As the video continues, things become even more dystopian.
There&#8217;s this line for example: &#8220;All people should feel welcome and valued and be able to live authentically and with PRIDE.&#8221; 
Yes, all people — every single one of them — should feel welcome and valued. They should all be able to &#8220;live authentically.&#8221; But this promise apparently does not apply to Christians who believe (as all of humanity did until 15 minutes ago) that men are men and women are women. Those Christians do not have the right to live authentically or &#8220;feel welcomed.&#8221; Instead, they can go straight to prison. Here&#8217;s more of the video, because again, as it goes along, things get worse and worse:
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This is where they casually establish that &#8220;family members&#8221; — including a mother and father — can be incarcerated if they don&#8217;t affirm their child&#8217;s imagined gender identity. And of course they do it with a sing-songy, HR lady reading the voiceover. Scratch an HR lady and you will find a power-mad despot, every single time.
We&#8217;ve <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conversion-therapy-bans-are-an-outrageous-attack-on-free-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">talked</a> about so-called &#8220;conversion therapy&#8221; before, and how efforts to ban the practice are both unconstitutional and incoherent. In this country, the Supreme Court is about to hear a case concerning whether Colorado&#8217;s ban on conversion therapy violates the First Amendment. The problem is that bans on &#8220;conversion therapy,&#8221; in every case, are premised on the idea that sexual orientation cannot be changed. But in the same breath, the government of New South Wales will tell you that sex is extremely changeable. In fact, you can go to the doctor and change it tomorrow. See the problem? If you&#8217;re changing your sex, then you&#8217;re also changing your sexual orientation, under their logic. A man who supposedly &#8220;becomes&#8221; a woman, but retains his attraction to men, would become a lesbian, in their view. This is the logical problem with these conversion therapy bans that they simply have no answer for. It&#8217;s like dividing by zero. 
But now they&#8217;re using this phony logic to justify throwing parents and priests in prison. Watch:
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The scope of this law is so broad that you could probably claim I&#8217;m violating it, if my show is broadcast in New South Wales. They want Australians to snitch on each other if they get a whiff of anyone who dares to suggest that gender ideology isn&#8217;t real. In a lot of ways, it&#8217;s like the COVID lockdowns all over again. You might remember that, at the height of the &#8220;pandemic,&#8221; there was a nationwide manhunt in Australia when some guy sneezed in an empty elevator without a mask on. Now they&#8217;re going to have manhunts over unauthorized prayers.
If you don&#8217;t believe that, consider what just happened a few weeks ago to Billboard Chris. He was peacefully standing in a market in Brisbane, wearing a sign that expressed his opposition to the castration of children in the name of gender ideology. He only spoke to people who spoke to him first. He didn&#8217;t obstruct anyone&#8217;s movement or anything like that. People were walking around him the whole time. There&#8217;s no dispute about any of this; it&#8217;s all on video. Nevertheless, Brisbane police arrested Billboard Chris, on camera. Watch:
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They arrested him for standing in a public place with a sign. There&#8217;s no doubt that, if the sign had been pro-gay marriage or whatever, then none of this would have happened. If you watch the full video, the police can&#8217;t name a single other instance where they&#8217;ve jailed someone for peacefully protesting at that location. But Billboard Chris blasphemed Australia&#8217;s state religion, so they took him away in handcuffs. And now they&#8217;re planning to do the same thing to the clergy.
The other day, an Australian commentator named Evelyn Rae outlined exactly what&#8217;s happening here. Here was her assessment, which is worth playing — not only because she&#8217;s right, but also because it&#8217;s good to know that Australia hasn&#8217;t been completely captured yet. Here it is:
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Everything Evelyn Rae just said also applies to many other countries. This is not a problem that&#8217;s limited to Australia. 
Here&#8217;s a <a href="https://reason.com/2024/10/17/british-man-convicted-of-criminal-charges-for-praying-silently-near-abortion-clinic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report from Reason</a> late last year, for example. This is the kind of story that JD Vance mentioned in his recent address to European leaders.
<blockquote>A British man was convicted of criminal charges for praying silently near an abortion clinic. The man, Adam Smith-Connor, did not attempt to harass, intimidate, or interact in any way with those entering the clinic. Instead, he wordlessly prayed with his head bowed slightly. He wasn&#8217;t even on clinic property—he was outside the sightline of the clinic itself. &#8230; As a result, Smith-Connor was questioned by police and later charged with violating a Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO), a broad censorship order enabled by the 2014 Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act. Under this law, local authorities can obtain special status for some public places, allowing them to ban a huge range of conduct. In the name of limiting &#8216;anti-social behavior.&#8217;</blockquote>
Yes, prayer is considered &#8220;anti-social behavior&#8221; in England. These kinds of arrests are happening because — from Britain to Colorado to Canada to Australia to China — authoritarians in government detest any challenge to their authority. These government officials know that they&#8217;re not impressive people. Australia&#8217;s prime minister has barely held a real job in his life. Most of the country is represented by people like this. They&#8217;re petrified that their subjects might worship someone other than themselves. As a result, they&#8217;re now throwing Christians in prison for practicing their faith. This trend has accelerated in China, and it&#8217;s now spreading throughout the West. Christians are being forcibly silenced, at scale. They are being vilified and incarcerated for what they believe.
I began by saying this isn&#8217;t a monologue about economics or trade wars. That&#8217;s true. But as we consider how we&#8217;ll work with these countries in the future — as we negotiate trade deals and so on — the assaults on Christians simply cannot be ignored. These attacks are as unlawful and immoral as they are systematic. They are becoming a fundamental part of the culture of both our allies and our adversaries. For the benefit of billions of Christians, and to preserve basic constitutional rights like the freedom of speech, this coordinated assault on religion must end before it progresses any further.

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A <a href="https://adfinternational.org/campaign/support-billboard-chris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Canadian father</a> recently sat before an Australian tribunal in Melbourne for five days because he shared an article from <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13119521/Sex-secrets-trans-kinky-Australian-bondage-bestiality-nudism-drugs-sex-change.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Mail</a> in an X post last year.
Let that sink in.
Chris Elston, better known as &#8220;<a href="https://x.com/BillboardChris" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Billboard Chris</a>,&#8221; flew halfway around the world to defend not only his own free speech rights, but also those of all people. He is <a href="https://adfinternational.org/cases/billboard-chris-australia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushing back</a> against an order from Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. The order demanded X censor Chris’ February 2024 post criticizing the appointment of a transgender activist to a World Health Organization panel of experts, citing the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13119521/Sex-secrets-trans-kinky-Australian-bondage-bestiality-nudism-drugs-sex-change.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">article</a> titled &#8220;Kinky secrets of UN trans expert REVEALED&#8221;
Linking to an article from one of the most-read news websites in the world, the post was <a href="https://x.com/Rob_ADFIntl/status/1906643539754205575" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deemed</a> by eSafety to be “cyber-abuse material targeted at an Australian adult.” X initially resisted pressure to censor the content in any way but later geo-blocked the post in Australia when hit with a formal takedown notice. Billboard Chris, with legal support from ADF International, is challenging that order, and X joined in a separate suit.
This isn’t about one post. It’s about whether governments should be able to censor lawful expression because they don’t like the content — in this case, the rejection of gender ideology. 
The hearing at the Melbourne Administrative Review Tribunal spanned five days and took in over 2,000 pages of documents. Meanwhile, the complainant, Teddy Cook, never even appeared before the tribunal.
<a href="https://x.com/Rob_ADFIntl/status/1906643539754205575" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Day one</a> revealed how thin the complaint truly was. eSafety’s lawyers claimed that part of the problem was that Chris had revealed Cook’s place of work and posted private images. Chris, however, simply reposted the Daily Mail’s piece, which named Cook’s workplace (a detail already publicly available online) and, as anyone who uses social media knows, the featured images were pulled from Daily Mail article, not supplied by Chris. It becomes more ridiculous still. The Daily Mail had obtained the photos from Cook’s own social media. The argument didn’t just collapse under scrutiny — it exposed the flimsy foundation apparently sufficient for this bureaucracy to suppress dissent.
By <a href="https://x.com/Rob_ADFIntl/status/1907084293513318811" target="_blank" rel="noopener">day two</a>, it was clear how detached from reality the process had become. There was no evidence of actual harm. Cook, just nine days after the post, had tweeted: “living my best life.” But here we were, with psychiatrists and professors flown in to dissect whether a single X post could legally be considered “likely … intended to have an effect of causing serious harm”.
Chris testified to the Tribunal about the issue at the core of his advocacy: “It’s damaging to teach children they are born in the wrong body &#8230; children are beautiful just as they are. No drugs or scalpels needed.” Asked whether he was trying to provoke outrage, he responded: “No. I want to provoke discussion.”
That matters. Under Australia’s Online Safety Act, takedown orders can only be issued if content is not only offensive, but also “likely …intended to have an effect of causing serious harm.&#8221; However, eSafety seemed to argue that intent is largely irrelevant. If someone feels offended, even by public information, that alone might justify censorship.
On <a href="https://x.com/Rob_ADFIntl/status/1907754476250792285" target="_blank" rel="noopener">days three and four</a>, several more expert witnesses took the stand. eSafety’s own expert — a digital communications professor — asserted that biologically accurate terms are “harmful,” and that children should be able to choose their gender around age 12. Note Australian taxpayers are footing the bill for this expertise — reportedly more than $10,000 for just this one.
The final day brought closing submissions and a stark contrast in worldviews. eSafety argued the Tribunal should view the post in isolation, ignoring the broader debate, and insisted that Teddy Cook — a WHO-appointed expert and activist — shouldn’t be considered a public figure. Chris’ legal team, along with X, pushed back: any fair assessment must consider the wider social and political context. This wasn’t targeted abuse — it was participation in a critical public conversation.
This case is a warning to all who value free expression. If a Canadian citizen can be silenced in Australia for sharing a news article on U.S.-based platform X, then clearly, censorship is no longer bound by borders. What’s to stop any other government — from Canada to the EU to China — from deciding your speech “harms” someone abroad and demanding it be taken down too?
This is exactly how global censorship metastasizes: bureaucracies leveraging international tech companies to enforce vague, ideological speech codes on people who never voted for them, under laws they never consented to. And the more they get away with it, the bolder they become.
Fortunately, X put up a robust legal defense, and Chris, with the legal backing of ADF International and the Human Rights Law Alliance, was unequivocal in his message: he will not be censored as he fights to put an end to the evils of gender ideology.
Most evidently, gender ideology needs censorship to survive, and that is why Chris has been targeted. He hasn’t gone before this tribunal to protect himself — he’s doing it to protect the right of every person to tell the truth.
This is a test case with global consequences. Billboard Chris’ censorship challenge shows us exactly where we’re headed if we don’t defend free speech: toward a world where bureaucrats silence opinions they don’t like, even from the other side of the globe. It’s a world where truth must be approved, and feelings outweigh facts. That’s not just anti-democratic — it’s dangerous. Because once a government crosses the line of international censorship, there’s no saying where it will stop.
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Robert Clarke is a barrister and director of advocacy for ADF International, which is supporting the case of Billboard Chris in Australia. Follow him on X at <a href="https://x.com/Rob_ADFIntl?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rob_ADFIntl.</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

He Shared A Link On X. Now He’s In An Australian Court.

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Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) defended President Donald Trump&#8217;s tariffs during a Monday morning appearance on Fox News, saying that cattle ranchers in his state were grateful for the president&#8217;s efforts to balance trade by pushing back against the barriers put in place by other nations.
Barrasso told the hosts of Fox&#8217;s &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom&#8221; that because of trade barriers imposed by nations like Australia, beef producers were forced into an uneven — and unfair — trade market because they had to compete for domestic sales with countries that wouldn&#8217;t even allow their product to be sold abroad.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenJohnBarrasso?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenJohnBarrasso</a>: &quot;Congress has given the President more and more authority on tariffs&#8230; The cattle producers are saying it is about time&#8230; Australia has sold $29 billion worth of beef in the United States, and we haven&#39;t been able to sell one hamburger in Australia because of… <a href="https://t.co/Dn0SgQ6iqr">pic.twitter.com/Dn0SgQ6iqr</a>
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&#8220;Congress has given the President more and more authority on tariffs,&#8221; Barrasso explained. &#8220;Specifically, national security for unfair trade practices, President Trump is fully within his authority, and I appreciate what the president is doing on tariffs, specifically in our home state of Wyoming.&#8221;
&#8220;In terms of beef, the cattle producers, they are saying it is about time,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;One of the countries that you just showed on that slide before I came on, Australia — Australia has sold $29 billion worth of beef in the United States, and we haven&#8217;t been able to sell one hamburger in Australia because of barriers.&#8221;
&#8220;They showed Thailand, 30% tariffs on beef coming from the United States,&#8221; Barrasso said. &#8220;Vietnam, 50%. You look at these numbers, and the ranchers of Wyoming are saying, &#8216;Thank you, Mr. President, it is about time.'&#8221;
The widespread tariffs, introduced last Wednesday during a White House event dubbed &#8220;Liberation Day,&#8221; have sparked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spin-cycle-legacy-media-and-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-tariffs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fierce debate</a> both on Capitol Hill and across media outlets as the resulting uncertainty caused the stock market to take a dramatic tumble.
Still, Trump has defended the move and urged those concerned about the market to &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hang-tough-trump-calls-on-americans-to-ride-out-tariff-storm-predicts-historic-investments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hang tough</a>&#8221; as the tariffs are used as leverage to bring other nations to the table to negotiate fairer trade arrangements for the United States.

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The Chinese Navy carried out an unannounced military exercise over the last month in which it encircled Australia, causing alarm amongst military experts.
China&#8217;s Navy sent a three-ship task force around Australia, including entering its exclusive economic zone, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/world/australia/china-warships-australia-aukus.html?smid=tw-share">reported</a>. They fired live ammunition around commercial airspace, which disrupted dozens of flights, and came close to a military base where a U.S. nuclear submarine was docked.
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China&#39;s warships encircle Australia. 
A flotilla of three Chinese navy ships sailed around Australia for nearly a month, moving in and out of its exclusive economic zone, conducting live-fire drills and forcing civilian flights to reroute. 
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The military exercise was the furthest south the communist nation&#8217;s navy has ever gone, the report said.
Australian officials, while projecting calm to the public, were reportedly unnerved by the incident and have forced it to take a serious evaluation of its naval shortcomings.
The report noted that Australia&#8217;s navy is &#8220;the oldest and smallest it has been since World War II.&#8221;
Out of the three Chinese naval vessels that encircled the country, one was a cruiser, another a frigate, and the third a replenishment tanker. The two warships in the task force had a combined 144 vertical launch missile cells, the report said. The 10 warships Australia has have a combined capacity for 200 vertical launch missile cells.
Military said that China was showing up Australia in its own backyard and was effectively taunting them by highlighting inadequacies within their fleet.
Reuters <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/australia-moves-arm-troops-with-anti-ship-missiles-china-threat-looms-2025-03-13/?utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=twitter">reported</a> that the incident has Australian officials racing to equip its army with new anti-ship missiles fired from mobile launchers and advanced targeting radars.
Proposals for the new weapons are under consideration with a decision expected to be reached by the end of the year:
<blockquote>Australian government officials have said that future versions of one of the contenders, Lockheed Martin’s Precision Strike Missile, were expected to have a range of up to 1,000km and could be fired from High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers. Australia has 42 HIMARS launchers on order from the United States, with launchers expected to be in service from 2026-27, according to the defense department.</blockquote>
Retired Australian Army Major General Mick Ryan said, “You could put a HIMARS launcher with a maritime strike missile in Sydney and it would have the potential to hit one of those ships.”
He said that mobile land-based launchers have major advantages over building expensive naval vessels.
“It’s a truck,” said Ryan. “You can park it under a tree and come out to fire it and move back again. They won’t find you.”
Australia has also ordered new long-range missiles for its navy and air force, the report said.
Ross Babbage, a former Australian government defense official, said that the procurement of the new missiles &#8220;deserves a high degree of priority.&#8221;
&#8220;We ought to be really turbo-charging this,&#8221; he added.

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/australia">Australia</a>-based high school <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/teachers">teacher</a> has failed to return to work after videos of her reportedly dressed as a cat went viral online.
A report by The Courier-Mail included complaints from students who accused the educator of referring to herself as “Miss Purr” and engaging in catlike behavior, such as hissing when students failed to comply with her demands, per social media complaints from parents.
The teacher was working at Marsden State High School in Logan City, south of Brisbane, when the alleged behavior occurred, the New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/lifestyle/queensland-teacher-allegedly-behaving-like-a-cat-in-class/">reported</a>.
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Photos and videos allegedly taken during class were published in the Australian outlet The Courier-Mail. The images depict the teacher wearing a cat ears headband during class and a rainbow lanyard with the word “purr” on it.
“She … forces the children to call her Miss Purr and cat screeches and growls when they don’t listen,” one Facebook commenter wrote. 
“She sits in class and licks her hands. It’s absolutely disgusting. Something needs to be done about this,” another comment said.
A Facebook commenter identifying herself as the mother of a student claimed her daughter was made to “purr” to get a lollipop. 
Another person who professed to be a relative of a student said their child “barks” at the teacher when they walk past.
“It’s more frustrating that the mainstream schooling and education system we are sending our kids to every day has teachers doing things like this,” that commenter said, per local news outlet <a href="https://7news.com.au/sunrise/queensland-teacher-allegedly-behaving-like-in-a-cat-in-the-classroom-sparks-parent-concerns-c-17668308">7News</a>.
“I want teachers who I can rely on to teach my kids what they need in life and be someone they can look up to, which isn’t someone who wears ears,” that person added. 
A spokesperson for the Department of Education provided a statement to 7News, saying, “The school is aware of parents’ concerns and the principal has addressed the issue directly with the teacher.”
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Australian Teacher Who Reportedly Dressed As A Cat, Hissed At Students Misses Work After Going Viral

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A Melbourne, Australia, synagogue was firebombed on Friday morning — with worshipers inside at the time.
“Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) crews were called to the scene around 4:10 a.m., finding the single-story synagogue engulfed in flames,” the Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-832246" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. “According to ABC News, 60 firefighters and 17 firetrucks worked tirelessly to bring the fire under control within an hour.”
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Terrorists in Melbourne, Australia poured petrol on top of a synagogue and set it ablaze while Jews were still inside.
Two people were taken to the hospital for severe burns.
They’re burning Jews alive, again, just like on Oct 7.
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— The Persian Jewess (@persianjewess) <a href="https://twitter.com/persianjewess/status/1864852365633032515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Masked men just tried to burn Jews alive inside a synagogue in Melbourne. Australia has seen some of the most vile antisemitism in the past year I’ve ever seen. The disease has spread across the West. We are in a global emergency. <a href="https://t.co/z9Xrly2lTH">pic.twitter.com/z9Xrly2lTH</a>
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) <a href="https://twitter.com/HeidiBachram/status/1864776375598448799?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 5, 2024</a></blockquote>
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🚨<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EXCLUSIVE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#EXCLUSIVE</a>: CCTV showing the moment a Melbourne synagogue was firebombed overnight <a href="https://t.co/naeJuz1cbl">pic.twitter.com/naeJuz1cbl</a>
— Avi Yemini (@OzraeliAvi) <a href="https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1864839176119816382?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Meanwhile, in Sydney, a Jewish man was detained and accused of “antagonizing” pro-Palestinian activists who were targeting the synagogue in front of which the Jewish man stood after he waved an Israeli flag across the street.
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Jew detained outside Sydney&#8217;s Great Synagogue for having Israeli flag
A Sydney Jew and friend of AJA, Ofir Birenbaum was detained by police for having an Israeli flag as he was on his way to attend a Jewish event at Sydney&#8217;s Great Synagogue.
Police said he was being detained… <a href="https://t.co/CFVSTW1tSZ">pic.twitter.com/CFVSTW1tSZ</a>
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“I unequivocally condemn the attack on a Melbourne synagogue,” Australia&#8217;s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “I have zero tolerance for antisemitism. It has absolutely no place in Australia.”
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A synagogue getting lit alight was inevitable. This is the antisemitism stoked by a loud, self-righteous minority in Australia.
The guilty know exactly who they are. They’ve incited this hate and are, in my view, directly responsible, but they’ll never own up to it.
They’ll…
— Osher Feldman (@OsherFeldman) <a href="https://twitter.com/OsherFeldman/status/1864851793643213090?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Yet Albanese and his Foreign Minister, Penny Wong, abandoned Israel earlier this week, shifted the government’s position, and split with the U.S., endorsing a UN <a href="https://documents.un.org/doc/undoc/ltd/n24/368/10/pdf/n2436810.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolution</a> that demanded Israel end its “unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as rapidly as possible” and “calls for the withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem.”
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That resolution, which made no demand for Hamas to return the Israeli hostages it holds, would mean Israel would have to withdraw from Judaism’s holiest place, the Temple Mount, and the Western wall that served as a retaining wall around the Biblical Holy Temple.
Opposition leader Peter Dutton <a href="//3D58E8FB-7094-4B10-8F3B-1134BB5324A9/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slammed the decision</a>, saying, “I think the prime minister stands condemned … it&#8217;s for votes. He sold the Jewish community out for &#8216;green&#8217; votes.’ They have been prepared to sacrifice the wellbeing of the Jewish community here in Australia to do so.” A new poll from Accent Research and Redbridge Group found that Dutton would likely replace Albanese as Prime Minister next year. “It found the Dutton-led Coalition is on track to pick up at least nine seats and win an outright majority, pointing to a potential defeat for the Albanese government,” Sky News <a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/pm-anthony-albanese-no-chance-of-winning-majority-at-2025-federal-election-as-peter-dutton-victory-increases-new-poll-suggests/news-story/3f0f9bfc16953febe022e4cc54c4c90a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
“They’re hard-Left extremists, that’s what they are,” Michael Kroger, former Liberal Party president, said. “Albanese, Wong, these people are of the hard Labor Left. It’s time for the UN to sit down and tell the world: What type of Palestinian state are we looking at? What we know is this: It’s not going to be a democracy, right? Because Hamas and Fatah don’t have (legitimate) elections. There’s not going to be freedom of the press in a Palestinian state. They’re not going to be freedom of religion unless you’re a Sunni. They won’t recognize Israel’s right to exist. There’s no rights for gays; there’s hatred of Americans, there’s ‘Death to America, death to the West.’ &#8230; A Palestinian state, on the basis of everything I’ve seen, is going to be like an Iranian theocracy, run by the Sunni rather than the Shia.”
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Michael Kroger obliterates the government and the UN over their latest anti-Israel motion.
For the raw facts, this clip from <a href="https://twitter.com/SharriMarkson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SharriMarkson</a>’s show is a masterpiece. <a href="https://t.co/Vg4iuzzVPs">pic.twitter.com/Vg4iuzzVPs</a>
— Osher Feldman (@OsherFeldman) <a href="https://twitter.com/OsherFeldman/status/1864256760011473272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 4, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Community Reacts To Melbourne Synagogue Arson Attack

Melbourne, Australia Synagogue Firebombed With Worshipers Inside

Anti-Semitism

Crime

Jews

The fearless Erin Molan of Sky News Australia stood up for Jews targeted around the world and issued a warning to the West over its tolerance of violence from pro-Palestinian forces.
Molan’s monologue confronted the notion pushed by anti-Semites that violence perpetrated against Jews was always a response to something the Jews had done rather than simply the evil of anti-Semitism.
“To the conflict in the Middle East and the unrelenting idiocy that defines the West’s support of terror, I want to do another quick fly around the world and look at some of the horrific attacks on Jews just this week,” she began. “Then — because as we all know and learned from the events of Amsterdam, when a handful of bad-behaving Israeli fans were apparently the justification for a sickening Jew hunt — these attacks only occur, not because of anti-Semitism, no, God no, but because, of course, the Jews started it — so first, and we always have to be fair here, I’ll show you the incident. Then I’ll show you where the Jewish community attacked first, because clearly, it’s science.”
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“So let’s kick it off in Canada. Mobs rioting in the streets. Even Justin Trudeau, potentially the weakest leader in the world, — but as I said last week, competition in that division, well, it’s stiff — he called the violent attacks anti-Semitic,” she noted. “But, according to the Amsterdam theory, that cannot be true: the Jews must have started it. So now let’s go to the pictures of the catalyst: the rioting Jews.”
She listened to the sound of crickets.
“Oh, I knew we would; we found it: an incident involving a Jewish man in Montreal. He must have provoked the entire thing. Oh, no: he was just being Jewish, having a coffee but moved on by police, because apparently his presence wearing a kippah bear a pro-Palestine rally was a threat to public order,” she said sarcastically.
“In the United Arab Emirates, Rabbi Zvi Kogan was horrifically murdered,” she continued. “Not that you’d know from The New York Times’ coverage: ‘Israel Rabbi Who Disappeared in Dubai Is Found Dead.’ Sounds like a tragic accident. No, no; he was brutally killed for the crime of being Jewish. But if we apply the logic of the well-thought-out and ‘evidence-based’ Amsterdam theory, he must have started it. This incredibly kind, loving, and generous human being, who had devoted his life to God, must have been at fault in some way, shape, or form because there is no way he was killed for just being Jewish; that doesn’t happen, they tell us. So let’s roll the vision now of him starting it.”
Crickets.
“In Melbourne, the Jewish community themselves were forced to come out and defend a synagogue after plans of a pro-Palestine protest across the road emerged,” she noted. “In fairness, according to the ‘AT’, the Amsterdam theory, the protests only would have been reactionary; the Jews must have gone to another religion’s place of worship to intimidate and harass. Fair is fair; we cannot conceal the truth. Roll that vision now, please.”
Crickets.
“In London, Jewish schoolgirls were violently attacked, glass bottles thrown at their heads, hospitalized,” she stated. “Again, no crickets required. You know. They didn’t start it; they didn’t deserve it; they didn’t stand a chance in a country that continues to shamefully tolerate and, at times, encourage the most vicious attacks on a minority group — yes — just because of the God to which they pray.”
“This isn’t rocket science, by the way; I’m not a genius, unfortunately; other media could do this, too: point out the bleeding obvious. So why don’t they?” she asked rhetorically.
Then she turned to non-Jews in the West: “And for those sitting there now thinking — and I get it — ‘I’m not Jewish; I’m not from Israel. Look, that stuff’s not nice, but it doesn’t really affect me,’ — it does. It already is. Our own Christmas traditions here in Australia, the unveiling of the Myer window, ruined this year by these protesters. In New York, overnight, a Thanksgiving parade, ruined by these protesters.”
“You don’t need to stand with Israel or agree with every move they make, to stand against what their enemies represent,” she declared. “But they are the only country currently fighting back and destroying the terrorists currently trying to destroy our way of life. At least, for the most part, Israel’s enemy is on the outside. Yes, they’re close and they’re dangerous; but as a country, regardless of each individual’s own political persuasions, they know definitively what they don’t want, because when that ideology is emboldened, they die.”
She warned: “For most people in the West, that’s not the case. Yet. But as this movement grows — and it is — we won’t have an Iron Dome to protect us. Unlike Israel, the enemy in the West is already within. And the damage they will capable of with just a little more encouragement and leniency will be unthinkable.”
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I honestly don’t know how <a href="https://twitter.com/Erin_Molan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Erin_Molan</a> does it. Week after week after week she breathtakingly knocks it out of the park every single time. 
Watch as Erin calls out every single cowardly government for their blatant inaction in the face of the worst wave of hate and antisemitism… <a href="https://t.co/OlMvjPSZku">pic.twitter.com/OlMvjPSZku</a>
&mdash; Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) <a href="https://twitter.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1862429255000301794?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Molan went on about the U.N.’s hypocrisy, a deeply personal matter for her, prompting a popular comment from a social media user who called the television host &#8220;a lioness with no equal.&#8221;
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THE MUST-WATCH VIDEO OF THE YEAR IS HERE. WOW 🙌🏽
This is the most sensational and powerful indictment of the hypocrisy, complicity and dishonesty of the <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FranceskAlbs?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FranceskAlbs</a> you will ever see on X or any platform. <a href="https://twitter.com/Erin_Molan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Erin_Molan</a> you are a lioness with no equal. Just wow. 
Watch… <a href="https://t.co/2sceRbSpUd">pic.twitter.com/2sceRbSpUd</a>
&mdash; Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) <a href="https://twitter.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1862448688666485080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Mercedes-Benz Sydney 2023 Women in Business Luncheon – Arrivals

‘Lioness’: Aussie News Anchor Confronts Anti-Semitism Around The World, Warns The West

Erin Molan

Pro-Palestinian

Violence

Podcaster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">Joe Rogan</a> weighed in on an insane rant from Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) boss Kim Williams, who claimed Rogan preys on “people’s vulnerabilities.”
“LOL WUT,” the host of “The Joe Rogan Podcast” wrote on Wednesday on <a href="https://x.com/joerogan/status/1861806984967688372">X</a> as he reacted to the clip of Williams’ tirade against him and the power he said he has in America following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.
In <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14130579/ABC-Kim-Williams-Joe-Rogan-podcast-attack.html">the clip</a>, a reporter asked Williams, “In the wake of the U.S. election, the Democrats have said that one of Kamala Harris’ mistakes was that she didn’t appear on his program. So I was just wondering if you had any observations what’s behind the Joe Rogan effect?”
&#8220;I think people like Mr. Rogan prey on people&#8217;s vulnerabilities,” Williams told the National Press Club. &#8220;They prey on fear. They prey on anxiety. They prey on all of the elements that contribute to uncertainty in society, and they entrepreneur fantasy outcomes and conspiracy outcomes as being a normal part of social narrative.”
&#8220;I personally find it deeply repulsive, and to think that someone has such remarkable power in the United States is something that I look at in disbelief,” he added. “I&#8217;m also absolutely in dismay that this can be a source of public entertainment when it&#8217;s really treating the public as plunder for purposes that are really quite malevolent.”
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LOL WUT <a href="https://t.co/xXJ9DlYr55">https://t.co/xXJ9DlYr55</a>
— Joe Rogan (@joerogan) <a href="https://twitter.com/joerogan/status/1861806984967688372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
Ahead of the election, then-former President <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBMoPUAeLnY">Donald Trump</a> sat down with Rogan and had a wide-ranging conversation for three hours in a podcast that has since garnered more than 50 million views.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-gave-them-an-open-invitation-rogan-opens-up-more-about-potential-kamala-interview">Rogan</a> made it clear he had offered to sit down with Harris, too, and revealed that he had given her team an “open invitation” to appear on his show.
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During “The Joe Rogan Experience” <a href="https://youtu.be/t5_EdPRLHuE">podcast</a>, the host said that it was Harris’ team who first reached out to him about appearing on his show after her campaign learned that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump">Trump</a> was coming in for an interview.
“She [Harris] had an opportunity to come here when she was in Texas and I literally gave them an open invitation,” Rogan said, hitting back at claims he was somehow being a “diva” about their interview.
“I said, ‘anytime, if she’s done at ten o’clock we’ll come back here at ten o’clock,’” he added. “I’ll do it at nine in the morning, I’ll do it at ten p.m. I’ll do it at midnight if she’s up and she wants to drink a Red Bull, f***ing party on.&#8221;
“So their camp reached out to me, so I said, ‘great. I would love to talk to her,’” Rogan continued. “But it was very difficult to tie it down. They wanted to travel and see, the thing is, if I go somewhere, then there’s going to be other people in the room, and they want to control a lot of things, I’m sure, according to the Bret Baier interview on Fox. That’s a distraction.”
The podcast host said that his goal was to simply sit down across the table from Harris and have a conversation, to get to know the person who wants to become the President of the United States as a human being — as he did with Trump.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/i-gave-them-an-open-invitation-rogan-opens-up-more-about-potential-kamala-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘I Gave Them An Open Invitation’: Rogan Opens Up More About Potential Kamala Interview</a>

Joe Rogan

‘LOL WUT’: Joe Rogan Weighs In After Australian Broadcaster Attacks Him In Insane Rant

Joe Rogan Weighs In After Australian Broadcaster Attacks Him In Insane Rant

Kamala Harris

Podcast

U.S.

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