The more nonsensical and obviously absurd a belief is, the more people who hold it (or pretend to) will resist recanting. The potential for humiliation rises in direct proportion to the ridiculousness of what they've publicly swallowed. They see no choice but to double down.
Dear ABC,
If you're looking for opinions on the Census Data, here's mine.
I'm a former data analyst (crime), but I also designed a data matching algorithm still used today by Victoria Police because of its effectiveness, so I have some professional skin in the game.
I am unable to defend the 2026 prioritisation of Census questions.
How does "We urgently need nationally exhaustive information about whether someone identifies as straight, gay, bisexual or another sexual orientation"...
While we didn't obtain nationally exhaustive information about whether households can access a GP,
whether they have unmet childcare needs,
whether working people commute three days rather than five,
whether households are involuntarily overcrowded because they cannot find housing.
Or these types of questions, which would surely be hard to argue against from a prioritisation perspective of best value for data capture, and best opportunity for Australians to provide a holistic picture of their lives;
Citizenship / visa or residency status (because Country of birth doesn't tell government whether someone is a citizen, permanent resident, international student, temporary worker, etc. Those populations can impose quite different infrastructure/service demands).
Year a non-Australian-born person obtained permanent residency/citizenship (because there is much better longitudinal information about settlement and integration than birthplace alone)
Primary mode of transport normally used (Census asks about journey-to-work circumstances, but hybrid/WFH has made a single Census-day travel snapshot much less informative than it once was).
Housing capacity/occupancy pressure (Bedrooms alone is crude. Ask whether people are sharing bedrooms, using converted garages/studies, or accommodating people who would otherwise live elsewhere. That's enormously relevant during a housing shortage).
Reason adults remain in/shared household (Understanding drivers of Financial necessity, caring, cultural preference, disability, housing unavailability etc...would distinguish genuine housing stress from chosen multigenerational living & inform other pressure points th Government can focus on).
Internet quality/access (As infrastructure in its own right, particularly with WFH, telehealth and online government services).
Household energy characteristics (Solar, battery, EV charging, gas/electric heating etc... would be extraordinarily useful for electricity-grid infrastructure planning)
Many of these variables have extremely obvious relationships with hospitals, roads, rail, schools, housing, childcare, workforce participation and infrastructure investment.
The ABS also removed “number of children ever born” from the 2026 Census (it will return in 2031).... while introducing gender and sexual orientation.
From a strategic-planning perspective, fertility and family formation are among the most consequential long-term variables imaginable. They affect future school enrolments, workforce size, dependency ratios, healthcare demand and population ageing.
This missed opportunity to capture all those above mentioned data sets to inform in policy/planning areas isn't just a shame, it's borderline failure of professional judgement.
We removed access to data that could inform those things, and replaced it with gender questions.
Who managed to convince a ABS strategic review board
“We don't have enough justification to collect fertility information every Census, but sexual orientation warrants universal national collection every five years”??
I'd love to see the cost-benefit/consequences methodology behind that decision !
The reality is the Census can only ask so many questions, and we should prioritise the ones that provide the greatest benefit for planning Australia's future, not pander to the "feelings" of a tiny majority of people that got warm and fuzzy because a national census survey "affirmed" their gender.
Thank you, if you read this.
“Men who identify as women may not enjoy being reminded they are not women. They may not like hearing that women don’t want them in our sports, spaces or services. Tough. Their personal sensitivity cannot become the legal standard for the entire country.”
Latest op-ed link 👇
RFK Jr. reveals what HHS found when they went looking for the 375,000 migrant kids Biden lost.
"It's a huge, huge tragedy."
"One guy pretended to be the parent of 42 children. We have no idea what happened to those kids."
"We're now finding them. We found about 137,000 of them, but a lot of them you just can't find. There was about 60 kids who were sent to one address. When we looked at that address, it was a container, a steel container in the middle of a parking lot."
"A lot of them were sent to work at slaughterhouses and picking fruits in the fields. They were slaves."
"So we stopped that. Now everybody who comes in has to validate the relationship. We DNA test them to make sure they're related to that kid. Nobody gets a kid unless we know that is the kid's parent or relative."
"It's a huge, huge tragedy. My agency [under Biden] was the single biggest child trafficker in the world."
The abuse women encounter for wanting women only spaces is from the worst of men who demand access to women only spaces.
When ABC’s media watch contacted me a few weeks ago, they asked this:
“The ABC argues that by publishing an inaccurate and misleading item, harm could result, to a vulnerable group. What is your response to this?”
I responded with this:
“Men who claim to be women are not vulnerable. They are the most powerful group in the country. Don’t believe me? “Misgender” or say no to one of them and see who has the upper hand. Hint: it isn’t you.
This “vulnerable” group has the Australian Human Rights Commission and the government on their side. Women who want woman only spaces on the basis of sex don’t have that. Who is more vulnerable?
To say that men who claim to be women are vulnerable is an inaccuracy I would seek to challenge at the ABC. Would the ABC publish an op-ed by me explaining that men who claim to be women aren’t vulnerable? What does it say about the ABC if they wouldn’t?
I trust you can see what I’m getting at.
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MediaWatch didn’t repeat this 👆
Always remember, every claim gender ideology makes, the exact opposite is true.
** An open letter to @AlboMP **
Dear Prime Minister Albanese,
Let’s get one thing clear: women are adult human females. You know it, I know it, you even said it in the lead up to the last election when asked “what is a woman” by Piers Morgan.
But we have a big problem.
I’m sure you have heard, last week, the Federal Court delivered its judgment in Giggle v Tickle, the “what is a woman” legal case that has been fighting in federal court for the past four years. To put it very simply, there are two sides to this case: women, adult human females, who want to ensure that woman is a single-sex category in law and women & girls have access to single sex spaces. The other side, which includes your human rights commission, insists that men who claim to be women are women in the eyes of the law. The full Federal Court sided with the man who claims to be a woman. Yes. A male won the “what is a woman” court case. Giggle v Tickle has turned Australia into an international laughing stock.
This decision is seismic. It means women cannot run women-only businesses for women. It confirms that the ordinary meaning of sex has been twisted beyond recognition. It means men can be women in law. The Australian Human Rights Commission, captured by ideology, has weaponised the sex discrimination act against women, the very demographic it was enacted to protect. They’ve even argued in court that men who claim to be women need pregnancy protections. They’ve pushed the view that sex is a spectrum, changeable, and that anyone objecting is the bigot. Is this something you agree with? Do you, Mr Prime Minister, think men need pregnancy protections in the law?
And there are real-world stakes here: Girls at school are holding their bladders all day, refusing to drink water, because boys who claim to be girls are in their bathrooms and they don’t want them there. Women prisoners are locked in cells with male sex offenders who simply “identify” as women. Female athletes are losing podiums, matches and safety. This isn’t inclusion - it’s the demise of women’s rights.
Prime Minister, some of your ministers say, “we need to protect trans rights”. With all due respect, sir, your government can protect so called trans rights without stripping rights from women and girls. Every other citizen manages to exist without demanding access to the opposite sex’s protected spaces. Why not try to get “trans rights” without destroying the rights of women and girls? Have you ever even tried?
The fact that Labor hasn’t even mentioned Giggle v Tickle and women’s rights - while Liberals, Nationals, and One Nation politicians speak out - tells us everything. This week has been silence from the Labor Party. No trans visibility day parades on this one. No pride posts. Why? What don’t you want Australians to know?
You boast about your 50 per cent women in cabinet. Good for you - you can accurately recognise what a woman is when it suits you. But the rest of us aren’t allowed to without fear of punishment. And can I ask, if you filled that cabinet with 50 per cent trans women, would you still call it equality between men and women? Think about that.
While the UK, the United States and even New Zealand are waking up, rolling back the nonsense and restoring sanity and realizing that gender ideology is a failed experiment, your government is turning Australia into the laughing stock of the world. “Giggle v Tickle” isn’t just a punchline overseas - it’s proof Australia is upside down.
I want to tell you something really important: If you will lie about something as obvious as men being women, we can assume you will look us in the eye and lie about everything.
Tell the truth. Fix the Sex Discrimination Act. Reinstate clear biological, accurate definitions of man and woman. Protect women, girls and single-sex spaces. Actually do something.
Because, at the moment, Mister Prime Minister, I’m doing your job for you.
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This is the fault of my profession. No one has a “gender identity.” There is only the reality of sex & there are only 2- male & female. That doesn’t mean distress does not exist. But normalizing the distress & affirming a delusion is not ethical treatment.
🏳️⚧️ "Women and girls have been told once again that men's feelings are more important than their safety and boundaries"
I told @SkyNewsAust Giggle v Tickle makes it clear that women and girls cannot say no to men who claim to be women in their spaces without threat of litigation.
This is unjust. It’s unsafe. And it’s untenable.
📣 This is why Parliament must fix the Sex Discrimination Act NOW: https://t.co/R2K4FyE9D0
#FixTheSDA #IStandWithSallGrover #Auspol
Western society is currently divided between people who know this is a man and are prepared to say so and those who know this is a man but lie out of obedience to an ideology. There is no third option. Literally nobody on earth thinks "Roxanne Tickle" is actually a woman.
When Parliament returns, One Nation will reintroduce our bill to acknowledge biological reality.
If this had been supported in the last Parliament, the injustice of the Giggle v Tickle case would never have happened.
One Nation will always fight for the rights of women to stand up against trans ideology.
After the Giggle v Tickle decision, outside the federal court, a representative of Equality Australia - the org that argues sex is a spectrum & men can be lesbians - said the quiet part out loud:
Direct discrimination makes it easier for men who claim to be women to win Australian Human Rights Commission complaints & court cases against *anyone* who doesn’t adhere to gender ideology.
Everyone in Australia should be terrified.
This isn’t equality. This isn’t progress. This is chilling.
I want to apologise to people who have tried to get in touch with my office and haven’t received a response.
We are being inundated with thousands of calls, emails and messages every week and it’s not possible to respond to all of them.
The Albanese government cut the staff allocation to One Nation after the last election.
I have been going to both the Prime Minister and Special Minister of State Don Farrell since the staff cuts. I have been begging and pleading with them to give us more staff to deal with the heavy workload.
In fact, earlier this year a staff member wrote to the Prime Minister directly, explaining the extreme stress they are under.
Labor hasn’t even responded and couldn’t care less.
My staff have continued out of loyalty, and they want to help the Australian people but their health has now become a serious issue.
As the leader of One Nation, I have 5 Electorate officers and just 2 Parliamentary Advisers.
The Leader of the Greens, Larissa Waters, has 5 electorate officers and 15 Advisers.
The Prime Minister has 59 personal Advisers. Adding his other Ministers, the Government employs a total of 504 personal Advisers.
This is in addition to the 1,200+ employees in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet alone and 185,000 employed by the Government as bureaucrats in the public service.
This is the Prime Minister using his powers to disadvantage his political opponents who don’t agree with his agenda.
My office deals with people in very difficult situations, complicated family law, immigration, NDIS, veterans and welfare plus many other matters.
The Australian people’s personal struggles are worse than ever – my staff have had to talk people down from the edge of taking their own lives.
Many people come to us because they get absolutely no assistance from the government and many other political offices.
It’s beyond a joke the lack of help that Labor is providing considering I would have one of the busiest political offices in the country.
I didn’t want to air this out in public, but this Albanese government has given me no choice
It’s not that we don’t want to do the work for the Australian people, it’s that we physically can’t.
My staff want to help this country and the people in it, but they’re so stressed they are close to collapsing.
I am the leader of a political party that is polling more than major political parties.
The government has failed to staff One Nation anywhere close to a functional level.
This is pure, bloody-minded politics by the Labor party.
I’ve tried everything I can to help people and will continue to do so, but my hands are tied.
The Labor party like to go on about the battlers. Well I’ve got some in my office trying to do a decent job for many Australians, but they don’t care about them.
Backward step for women’s rights in Australia
15 May 2026
One Nation will again attempt to protect women-only spaces from transgender ideology by moving amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act to reflect biological definitions of men and women following the Federal Court’s decision against Sall Grover in the Giggle v Tickle appeal.
Party leader Senator Pauline Hanson said the decision had stripped hard-fought women’s rights in Australia.
“I’m disgusted with this outcome,” Senator Hanson said. “It flies in the face of biological reality and strips rights from women.
“Women-only spaces are no longer protected and are no longer safe from transgender extremism. Where are the feminists who are happy to invoke women’s rights when it’s convenient but are conspicuously silent when transgender extremism stomps all over them with man-sized boots?
“Where are we going as a society when our courts won’t protect Australian women and can’t recognise there are only two genders: male and female?
“I condemn this appalling decision and I commend Sall Grover for refusing to give up the fight on behalf of Australian women everywhere. I hope she takes this to the High Court and I wish her every success in doing so.”
Senator Hanson said One Nation was the only party that had tried to amend the SDA and reverse changes made under the Gillard Labor Government that inserted identity politics and removed biological definitions of men and women.
One Nation attempted to move an amendment in September 2024, but in a rare case the Senate denied its introduction and denied Senator Hanson’s right to speak in the chamber.
“I will not stop fighting to change the law and support the rights of women to have safe spaces and sports that exclude biological men,” she said.