Freedom Of Speech

Aussie Journos’ Jobs

Zoe Zamlos reported in yesterday’s Australian Financial Review that: “The Albanese government’s revised plan to tax technology giants that refuse to pay publishers could inadvertently cause major cuts in funding and job losses at Australia’s two biggest commercial news companies, News Corporation and Nine Entertainment.”

Today is the 54th annversary of the death of iconic film star Marilyn Monroe who said both:

“I have found freedom and independence, and I don’t intend to give them up.”

and

“I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented, or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anyone else.”

In 1962 Marilyn Monroe died at the age of 36.

Loved. Used. Totally unusal.

Human individuality in all its forms is what makes us human.

When we allow big powers of any type to replace individuals with inhuman power, we stop being what we are and what we need to be.

Journos’ jobs matter.

Geoff Fox, August 5, 2026, Melbourne, Australia

Freedom Of Speech Of #1 – Karl Stefanovic

The Prime Minister Of Australia, the single most important office holder in the country categorises the abrupt departure of larrikin icon Karl Stefanovic from the Nine network as “a matter for Karl Stefanovic to think about his actions and the decisions that he’s made.”

Karl says on youtube in “A message from Karl”: “I’m free. Truly independent. ……. The public deserve to hear perspectives ……. Freedom of speech here and around the world is what this show is about.”

With his statement, Albanese, a Prime Minister from the alleged Labor Party is saying that a worker can be sacked for helping others express their political opinions.

This is the type of thinking that “justifies” book burnings, “justifies” cancel culture and is a threat to the single most important foundation of human social life: discourse aka Logos aka free speech.

Geoff Fox, June 26,2026, Melbourne, Australia

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HAK ASASI MANUSIA- HUMAN RIGHTS – POLICE BRUTALITY

Why has Anthony Albanese failed to condemn blatant police brutality against passionate demonstrators demanding the right to continue a long running campaign of protests for a free Palestine during the presence in Australia of Israeli President Isaac Herzog.

Michael West reports at https://michaelwest.com.au/chaos-at-herzog-protest-as-police-use-excessive-force-the-west-report/ about Monday’s protest in Sydney:

“…. a very heavy police operation, which saw protesters pepper sprayed, brutalised, pushed to the ground and arrested. This included elderly people, families, people with disability and all of this was captured on video for the world to see …….

Critics say the response was not spontaneous but planned …….

We now hear ….. Zack Scholfield:

‘……. Clearly the police had decided that they were going to kettle and entrap those thousands upon thousands of people, not let them leave the square …… and at a certain point police simply started charging into the crowd with horses, pepper spray, picking people off the margins and beating them behind police lines.

…….I saw elderly people ….. get charged directly by these riot cops ……. If they fell over in the scuffle, or got pushed over, which regularly happened, they were trampled by police and then sometimes beaten when they couldn’t get up or when they tried to get up …….

The police response was clearly designed to incite people to fight back …….

Many of your viewers would have seen the footage of police pushing over kicking punching people at prayer that were kneeling on the ground face down or police punching people in the head that were already on the ground in handcuffs ……

I looked into the eyes of these riot police that were on the front lines and many of them were clearly enjoying the position of power that they had been given by the government and many of them were clearly enjoying the fact that they had people that they could brutalis ….. without fear of retaliation because of their overwhelming numbers.’ “

Geoff Fox, February 12, 2026, Australia

THE RIGHT TO PROTEST AGAINST GENOCIDAL WAR

On the advice of Anthony Albanese, the Australian Governor General invited Israeli President Isaac Herzog to visit Australia in the wake of the antisemitic mass murder of 16 people at a Hannukah celebration at Bondi Beach last December.

Antisemitism is evil.

Those murders were evil.

But antisemitism cannot be solved by any sort of Islamophobia. Or by ignoring 81,913 Palestinian deaths that make people passionately angry about what the nation of Israel has done in Gaza.

Some people have called Bondi the worst massacre in Australian history. Aboriginal people would not be likely to agree. Bondi wouldn’t get in to the top 100 of massacres measured by numbers of deaths if colonial massacres of Aboriginal people are considered.

To put Bondi into perspective, 16 Palestinians have been killed in the current war in Gaza once in just over every 4 hours since October 7 2013. There have been approximately 5,120 killings of 16 Palestinians in the war in Gaza compared to one killing of 16 people in Bondi last December.

(4.0222054 hours per 16 deaths. This is based on the Wikipedia figures of 81.913 deaths in the 858 days since 7/10/2023)

Wikipedia reports that, in October 2023, “Herzog accused the residents of the Gaza Strip of collective responsibility for the Hamas attack on Israel.” The Amnesty international website states: “The UN Commission, in its report of 16 September 2025, also found that this statement by Herzog, together with others by the Israeli leadership amounted to direct and public incitement to commit genocide under Article III(c) of the Genocide Convention.”

Anthony Albanese wants a lowering of the temperature about these atrocities.

He wats a Terra Nullius silence about Israel’s genocidal actions.

I don’t.

Who agrees with me?

Geoff Fox, 11 February, 2026, Melbourne, Australia

the speaker in the photo above is Senator Lidia Thorpe

The Social Needs Of The Young

Today, on the 171st anniversary of the slaughter of 20 pro democracy activists at the Eureka Stockade by government forces, I condemn Anthony Albanese for the viciousness of his government’s attack on the social needs and human rights of young Australians. (The above painting shows the Swearing of Allegiance to the Southern Cross (Eureka Flag) at Bakery Hill on 1st December, 1854.)

In a society where most parents are too busy working (in order pay the mortgage and other living costs) to be there for their children the way parents used to be there, it is an intellectual, moral and emotional obscenity to ban all people under the age of 16 from social media which are now the main place for socialising for most human beings in first world countries.

This ban will create more problems than it solves.

I predict:

A The Albanese government will increase the youth suicide rate with this ban.

B. Youth participation in violent criminal gangs will increase because of this ban.

This ban is an example of just how dangerous and stupid the centralised planning of people like Anthony Albanese can be.

While I am not a human rights lawyer, I believe it is a clear violation of Articles 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 12, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 of the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights.

If I am correct then Anthony Albanese has violated half of these 30 human rights with one piece of legislation. Is that a world record?

Leaders who do things like this with impunity belong in jail.

Geoff Fox, Deember 3, 2025, Melbourne, Australia

“….. 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