If anyone else put up a protest banner at the National Press Club - they'd be BANNED. Immediately.
@GetUp should be banned from the NPC.
They have demonstrated a total inability to behave in a civilised and respectable manner.
🚨 Left-wing activist group GetUp has claimed responsibility for the protest stunt during Pauline Hanson’s speech.But is there more to the story?
The whole stunt stinks of a possible insider setup involving the ABC, the National Press Club, or venue vendors. At the very minimum they failed at providing basic security for a high profile political leader. It might look harmless but this was a serious security breach, and there needs to be accountability.
@SandyXiaotong If he's behind such a filthy act of trying to sabotage someones address at the National Press Club then YES.
It begs the question, what is a journalist? Someone who seeks the truth or someone who pushes an agenda?
He's brought the Press Club into disrepute.
@SandyXiaotong Of course he should be either sacked or given garden duty.
He tainted the very sanctity of the Press Club in Canberra.
From now on it can NEVER claim to be unbiased.
Fucking disgraceful if true.
BREAKING - NATIONAL PRESS CLUB: National Press Club CEO Maurice Reilly has just admitted he coordinated the “poster stunt” with GetUp’s Paul Ferris.
Should Maurice Reilly be sacked or was it just part of the political game?
I’ve been called so many things over my career, it’s water off a ducks back now.
If some mean words are enough to shock a “leader”, how can they be trusted to run a state with millions of people?
Peoples lives are in politicians hands. We’ve got more important things to fix right now for the Australian people than being called mean names.
Happy to talk to you any time about the misogyny and sexism women in Australia are experiencing on a daily basis. You have my email address from when I emailed you on the first day you were appointed premier, congratulating you, and letting you know about the *misogyny and sexism Australian women are experiencing on a daily basis*. Looking forward to hearing from you.
After Liberal Bronwyn Bishop voluntarily repaid her helicopter flight costs, Albanese said her position was ‘untenable.’
But when Labor Anika Wells repaid wrongly claimed taxpayer funds, Albanese says ‘she’s a very good minister.’
The double standards are staggering.
Pre election 2025, Jim Chalmers said “when it comes to negative gearing tax changes, that is something we won’t be touching”
Anthony Albanese said “yes, for the 50th time, I promise that negative gearing will not touched”
The Albanese Government just blatantly lies to our face.
Out of all the videos I've made, this one is clearly pinching a lot of nerves.
Since some people are apparently deaf, or choosing to misrepresent what I'm saying here, let me clarify.
I have zero issues with acknowledging those who served. None. Zilch. You served the country, indigenous or not, amazing, you deserve to be honoured.
What I do have an issue with (and I'm obviously not alone in this), is a Welcome to Country at an ANZAC Dawn Service.
It is not the time or place for a humiliation ritual that's been around all but 5 minutes, that's been forcibly shoehorned into every aspect of Australian culture, so the performative virtue signallers can remind us *yet again* that we are all on "stolen land."
So, once again, I do not have any problems with acknowledging that indigenous people have served, I do have a problem with Welcome to Country. It is not necessary.
The booing wouldn't exist if the WTC didn't exist, simple.
A former Special Forces Commando who served alongside Ben Roberts-Smith in Afghanistan has finally broken his silence.
His name is Dean Burgess.
He even speaks of the unwritten code of the “quiet professionals” and says he would feel like a traitor to the Brotherhood if he stayed silent any longer.
He describes the brutal truth our soldiers faced: an enemy with zero rules who hid behind women and children, used them as human shields, and laughed at our rules of engagement. Our troops were sent into that nightmare again and again under impossible restrictions.
Yet now the government is running a witch-hunt against the very men they ordered into that hell.
Stuff 'em, I am speaking out.
This gutless Labor government dragged our Victoria Cross hero off a plane in front of his kids, arrested him like a terrorist and locked him in Silverwater with the very terrorists he was sent to fight.
What happens in war stays in war, it's always been an unwritten code of honour by professionals who fought and some gave their live to protect us. You do not spend hundreds of millions crucifying soldiers for doing the job you sent them to do.
We still inflict our famous & stupid Australian Tall Poppy Syndrome on our own war heroes while bending over for every ideology we are too weak to name.
In 1980 Lee Kuan Yew was right when he warned us we would become the "poor white trash of Asia". Well Australia, it's Mission Accomplished. All gift-wrapped and paid for by taxpayers too gormless or apathetic to stop it.
At long last Australia is finally waking up. The rage is building. And we're not taking this anymore.
If you are reading this and feel the same way but can only say it in private, then WTFU, it's high time to grow a spine and start saying it publicly. For goodness sake stop hiding in the shadows whispering like controlled cowards.
#FreeBenRobertsSmith #FreeBSR
I’m very sure the Australian soldiers who went ashore on that beach at Gallipoli in 1915 had little idea they were writing one of the most definitive chapters in the history of their young nation.
Although we had already been a country in our own right for a few years, it’s arguable Australia came of age on that very first Anzac Day.
Australians were a different breed in those days. In the early days of the Great War, many young men rushed to volunteer for king and country. They had little idea of the suffering and deprivation that lay ahead of them, but even when they experienced it they fought bravely and they fought well for years before that terrible conflict came to a close.
And they wrote a legacy which we still commemorate to this day. That’s an important point: Anzac Day is not a celebration. It’s a solemn commemoration; for me and many Australians, it’s the most important on our calendar.
I believe that as a nation we’ve lost some of the national spirit embodied by those young soldiers at Gallipoli, and embodied by all Australians who have served in uniform since the first Anzac Day.
Do many younger Australians today understand the significance of the sacrifices we commemorate? I don’t know, but what I am sure of is that many young Australians today have been taught the very existence of their country is a crime, an injustice, and something to be ashamed of.
It’s hardly a view that’s going to encourage someone to put on a uniform and serve. It’s not a view to which anyone would sacrifice something meaningful like their liberty or their life.
Fortunately it’s not a universal view. I’ve met many veterans of recent service. Some are carrying on family traditions of service; others are forging new traditions. That spirit I spoke of still defines them, and above all it’s this spirit which we acknowledge on Anzac Day.
I’m a proud Australian and proud to commemorate Anzac Day. I’m always proud of the national spirit which defines the service and sacrifice of our veterans past and present, but I’m worried it’s slipping though our fingers.
I believe that makes Anzac Day supremely important today: a solemn reminder that when the world was at its worst, the best of our country stood up united and defined what it means to be Australian.
"Welcome to Country" may have its place in some limited circumstances, but it has NO place whatsoever at Anzac Day Dawn services.
While the politically correct love to shriek that it’s “disrespectful” to “interrupt” a Dawn Service, the real disrespect and vile interruption is their arrogant hijacking of this traditional ceremony — ramming a "Welcome to Country" down everyone’s throat right from the very start.
The Cenotaph at Martin Place is a sacred site that belongs to ALL Australians — not some stage for woke, divisive virtue-signalling and pushing political agendas.
“Welcoming” returned servicemen and the families of those who made the ultimate sacrifice to the land that they fought for is not just insulting, it’s offensive.
The booing is a raw, natural response to the woke activists who have shamelessly overstepped the mark by hijacking Anzac Day Dawn Services to shove their political correctness down the nation’s throat.
Anzac Day services exist to unite the nation in solemn remembrance, not to be hijacked for leftist agendas.
This divisive "Welcome to Country" fad — recently forced upon traditional Anzac Day Services — must be scrapped immediately.
Do you agree ?
Well, that went well.
You disrespect the fallen, only talk about yourself, and kept that fuckin baseball cap on your head.
Where’s the respect?
You got what you deserved, getting paid to speak WTC is not welcome at all at a dawn service.
Dear Aussies,
Governments don't rule you. They are not your Kings or Queens or rulers, unless you agree to serfdom.
They do not give or take your inalienable rights.
They were employed BY YOU to manage infrastructure, not to choose your thoughts, expressions, actions or words.
Beyond these rights, your life is none of their business. How they spend your money IS your business. They ARE your servants. Not the other way round.
Please, for the sake of us all, stop complying with them. Stop letting them rule you.
Anzac Day celebration in Q'ld, the speaker just before presenting the singer with his version of "I was only 19".
Proclaimed there won't be any welcome to the country .
We are already home.
No one was booing Australians who served. People were booing the political correct insanity of politics that has taken over own nations. Stop gaslighting. Stop lying. No one believes it anymore.
You cannot "Welcome to Country" men and women who have already paid the ultimate sacrifice, as if they are foreigners in the very land they defended.
You cannot claim diversity is our strength while paying lip service to a performative ritual whose very words exclude everyone else as outsiders to that country.
You cannot claim indigenous history is to be revered while promoting the erasure of Australian history by denying its rightful recognition.
Australia is a land of many unnecessary contradictions. The longer this continues and society remains fractured, the faster others, far removed from any care for either side, will take advantage for their own ends.