If I am silenced by this legal action, no Australian’s freedom of speech will be safe.
Lawyers have now lodged my free speech defence with the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT).
The Human Rights Law Alliance acted on my behalf just before Christmas in response to two drag queens who are suing me over a January 2020 blog post I wrote.
You can read my response here.
With the help of the taxpayer-funded LGBTI Legal Service, the drag queens dragged me through the Queensland Human Rights Commission last August.
Because I refused their anti-free speech demands, they have escalated the matter to QCAT.
You can read their contentions here.
They demand QCAT:
- Order me to pay them $20,000 in compensation;
- Require five blog posts to be censored;
- Gag me into the future.
I’m grateful for the support of people who have donated to my legal defence. Without you, I would not have been able to engage this level of professional help.
It is my sincere hope that the drag queens will now abandon their quest to crush freedom of speech and that this is the end of the matter.
The ball is back in their court and it is now a waiting game.
If I am silenced by this legal action, no Australian’s freedom of speech will be safe.
Neither I nor the Human Rights Law Alliance receive taxpayer funds.
Urgent law reform is needed to restore equality before the law and freedom of speech in Australia.