“It’s a free country”
Australians used to say that a lot as a figure of speech. We used it say it as kids. It wasn’t a political statement, but there was a confident assumption behind it that we did really live in a free country, and were lucky to do so.
Maybe some people still say it, but I don’t hear it anymore. Everyone seems to realise that we don’t live in a free country at all, probably because we were locked in our houses, told we’d never be let out again unless we took experimental gene injections, and arrested or banned from social media if we objected to it.
But, bizarrely, despite many of us realising through bitter experience that if a right can be taken away it never existed in the first place, since the end of Covid Tyranny we’ve sat back and watched while federal and state governments have passed successive speech laws putting us on the path to a UK-style PC police state.
Even more bizarre is the response of many on the right, who rather than demanding free speech be enshrined in the Constitution, as Senator Ralph Babet did earlier this year, or consistently defending it on principle like John Ruddick has, argue instead for continued cowardice and submission.
Don’t express your opinions, they say, lest those in power pass new laws.
Don’t protest against powerful lobby groups, lest those powerful lobby groups get your protest rights taken away.
Don’t say what you really believe, lest the government make it illegal to do so.
Then when the government does bring in more speech restrictions, they say “I told you so” and blame those who exercised their (former) rights rather than those who took them away.
“If only you’d stayed silent like me, I’d still have the right to say the things I was took scared to say anyway. You’ve ruined it for everyone.”
It cannot be overstated how damaging and self-defeating this attitude is, and how urgently this type of thinking needs to be expunged from our circles. It’s almost as bad as punching right.
NSW Premier Chris Minns says Australia doesn’t have the same free speech protections as the United States, calling it a trade-off we must accept to safeguard the multicultural society we’ve built. pic.twitter.com/iaehbrYImQ
— Australians vs. The Agenda (@ausvstheagenda) November 11, 2025
If Chris Minns gets his way and passes new laws further restricting free speech in NSW, these types will no doubt blame the National Socialist Network for daring to call for the abolition of the state’s most powerful lobby group (that represents fewer than 0.4% of the population), instead of Minns and the Opposition who will no doubt vote support it.
Minns said today, as he has repeatedly said over the past year or so, that we don’t have “American-style free speech” because it’s incompatible with multiculturalism.
According to him, we have to accept ever-harsher restrictions on what we can say and how we can express ourselves politically every time a minority group complains their feelings were hurt, until we end up competing with the UK for the most arrests for social media posts in the world.
The way to prevent this from happening is not to beg those on your side of politics not to speak out against multiculturalism and minority lobbies, but to fight to change the laws in the other direction.
Because Minns, after all, is half-right – our Constitution doesn’t guarantee free speech. But it should, and the window to change this is closing fast due to mass immigration.
We’re taking in millions of people who either come from countries where they don’t have free speech, eg. China. or where they don’t care about it, eg. India, and the larger the third world proportion of our population becomes the more difficult it will be to get it guaranteed.
We all need to fight for free speech before it’s too late, and the next time someone tells you not to exercise your rights lest they be taken away, call them a coward.
Header image: Chris Minns at a press conference telling the people of NSW they don’t get to communicate politically because foreigners might be offended (Sky News Australia).
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