This Abomination Must Be Defeated

I learned early in my political career that the title of a Bill presented to Parliament is often a deliberate lie, crafted to conceal its true purpose. And nowhere is this more evident than in Albanese’s so-called “Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026.”

This Bill should be honestly titled the “Protecting Islamic Hate-Preaching and Silencing Opposition to Mass Migration Bill 2026” because that is precisely what it does.

The legislation is deliberately vague about what constitutes “hate speech,” exposing Australians at risk of arrest and imprisonment for expressing political views on mass migration. Yet buried within it, Part 5, section 80.2(BF)(4), is a sweeping legal carve-out that shields Islamic hate-preaching from prosecution.

The draft legislation states:

“Subsection (1) does not apply to conduct that consists only of directly quoting from or otherwise referencing a religious text for the purpose of religious teaching or discussion.” (my emphasis).

A “religious text” plainly includes the Koran. And the Koran contains the Sword Verse, Qur’an 9:5, which explicitly references violence. Multiple translations command believers to hunt down, capture, besiege, and kill those labelled as pagans or idolaters unless they submit, pray, and pay tribute. 

These are not obscure or fabricated quotations. They are canonical religious texts. And under Albanese’s legislation, quoting them, even to justify violence, would be legally protected.

Defenders claim the Sword Verse is “contextualised” or “mitigated” by other sections of the Koran. That is irrelevant for the purposes of Albanese's Bill. The proposed new law does not require moderation, context, or condemnation. It grants blanket immunity for quoting religious texts in “discussion.”

The consequence is chilling and unmistakable: This Bill gives legal protection to Islamic extremists, hate-preachers, and terrorist sympathisers to openly advocate the killing of anyone they deem a "pagan, idolater, or polytheist" so long as they cloak it as religious discourse or "discussion".

This is not accidental. This is not oversight. This is design.

Such legislative protection belongs in an Islamic theocracy, not in a Western liberal democracy.

Albanese is betraying Australia. He is lying about the intent of this Bill.

We are told this legislation is necessary in response to the Islamic terrorist atrocity at Bondi. Yet barely a month later, the Prime Minister is rushing through laws that protect the very ideology that inspired that massacre.

At the same time, the Bill’s vague definition of “hate speech” places ordinary Australians at risk, citizens who, in good faith, criticise mass migration, oppose importing thousands from Gaza, question the resettlement of ISIS brides, or argue that Albanese’s mass migration policies from non-Christian nations are contrary to Australia’s national interest.

Those Australians could face police raids in the middle of the night, arrest by the AFP, and years in prison, not for inciting violence, but for dissent.

So let us be absolutely clear:
This Bill protects Islamic hate-preaching while criminalising political opposition.

That is not “combating extremism.”
That is extremism; state-sanctioned censorship enforced by prison sentences.

Albanese is exploiting the Bondi massacre for political gain. He is using national grief as cover to entrench authoritarian power.

With vague definitions and draconian criminal penalties of years in jail, this legislation will crush free speech, silence criticism of mass migration, and accelerate the forced cultural transformation of Australia, while simultaneously granting legal immunity to extremist religious beliefs that have already led to the murder of innocent Australians, including women and children.

Recalling Parliament to ram this through is not leadership. It is a low-brow political stunt. A cynical exercise designed to manufacture urgency, suppress scrutiny, and criminalise dissent.

Then there is the Liberal Party.

With a few honourable exceptions, they are once again hiding under their desks, refusing to take a stand, signalling surrender before the fight has even begun.

They do not grasp the gravity of this moment.

This legislation will fundamentally transform Australia. It will shroud the nation in draconian censorship and push us toward an enforced multicultural police state. If the Liberal Party fails to oppose this now, it will not recover.

This will be the final nail in its coffin.

After COVID cowardice and Net Zero appeasement, failure to fight Albanese’s anti-free-speech agenda will kill the party Robert Menzies built. Its dwindling numbers of remaining supporters will leave, permanently, for One Nation and the Libertarians.

If Sussan Ley will not fight this Bill, Andrew Hastie must move immediately and call a leadership spill first up Monday morning, pledge full repeal, and offer Australians a real opposition. Anything less is political suicide.

In the meantime, every Australian must speak out.

This legislation is rushed.
It is disgraceful.
It is dangerous.

And it must be defeated.

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.”
– Salman Rushdie