Last term of Parliament, the Change or Suppression (conversion) practices bill passed. The sales pitch for this was that it would stop horrific historic gay conversion therapy. If it just did this, I would have supported. But of course, it didn’t just do that.
1/5 This is an example of a newly prohibited practice outlined by VEOHRC. If your child asks you for a tattoo, and you say no, you’re a good parent. But if they ask you for puberty blockers and you say no - you’re breaking the law now.
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humanrights.vic.gov.au/change-or-supp…

Australian libertarians have mostly steered clear of the current conflict in women’s rights. As a leader in the Australian libertarian movement, I think it’s time to speak out respectfully in defence against of our principles. Here’s why:
🧵1/4 Firstly - freedom of speech. A group within our society (women) is being systematically silenced by the mob. Soon, “hate speech” and “anti vilification” laws will be introduced to silence them using the full force of the law. If we agree with them or not, we must resist.
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First hot take on the issue I've been pressing the most. Vaccine mandates and Section 10 of the Charter of Human Rights, relating to protection against medical procedures without full and free consent. 🧵 For those who have been arguing that the consent process is untainted, not even the Government agrees with you. They have openly admitted that it limits section 10(c) of the Victorian charter of human rights and responsibilities, as I have argued for ages now.

The Australian Immunisation handbook section on obtaining legally valid consent is very well written and forms a sound basis for how to ensure patient consent is valid.

🧵1/5 However, we are now in a situation where it could be very reasonably argued that people are being pressured, coerced or manipulated into obtaining medical procedures.
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On the legality of public health directions. Many will know that I have been questioning the proportionality and whether they are the least restrictive of rights as required by the Public Health and Wellbeing Act. On 4th May 21, I asked the Attorney General this question

🧵1/6 For those that are sworn to protect and uphold the law, this is from the @VicOmbudsman report on housing tower lockdown - one of the very few situations where human rights and legality were investigated in detail. This is from her Foreword in the report. (my highlights)
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Some of the reasons I oppose an extension to the emergency powers.

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1/12 The Government has known from the start that they only had 6 months to use the extraordinary powers. They had time to come up with specific required regulations or solutions which were compatible with a free society.
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