“….. we must fly a rebel flag/As others did before us,/And we must sing a rebel song/And join in rebel chorus.” -from Freedom On The Wallaby, a poem by Henry Lawson, who died 103 years ago on this date in 1922.
Lawyer, author and military historian John Story warned on May 31 this year that the Australian Labor Party’s “thumping electoral victory” earlier in that month could lead to “more subtle” attacks on Free Speech.
Today, a proposed change to federal Freedom of Information laws leads analyst Stephen Rice to write in The Australian newspaper: “Labor’s contempt for a free press – and for the electorate – is deepening every day (and the) culture of secrecy is deepening under Labor.”
Rice describes current practices with respect to the free flow of information as: “The kind of abuse of process that actually damages a thriving democracy.”
This is the work of the Albanese government.
Geoff Fox, September 2nd, 2025, Melbourne, Australia
LEFT BEHIND BY ALBANESE 