Why Labor Polices Speech, Not the Terror Watchlist

Politicians and judiciary mistakenly believe Dicey’s theory of parliamentary supremacy

By staff writers How did the Labor Party manage to rush its hated Hate Speech bill through the parliament on January 20, 2026?  Or the attached bill to initiate a gun buyback scheme which Queenslanders opposed by 67 per cent in a News Ltd public poll held in December? PM Albanese, although ignorant of the […] The post Politicians and judiciary mistakenly believe Dicey’s theory of parliamentary supremacy appeared first on cairnsnews.org.

Australian National Review - Politicians and judiciary mistakenly believe Dicey’s theory of parliamentary supremacy

By staff writers How did the Labor Party manage to rush its hated Hate Speech bill through the parliament on January 20, 2026?  Or the attached bill to initiate a gun buyback scheme which Queenslanders opposed by 67 per cent in a News Ltd public poll held in December? PM Albanese, although ignorant of the basic tenets of law, like the Liberals, believe that parliament is supreme and can do as it pleases. Many members of the judiciary naively hav…

Why Labor polices speech, not the terror watchlist - Politics, Policy, Political Views

Anthony Albanese’s post-Bondi hate speech bill, rammed through Parliament in chaotic January 2026 sessions, epitomises everything wrong with the Western democratic response to violent extremism. The omnibus legislation – collapsed one day, split and forced through the next – imposes sweeping new speech offences while exempting religious texts, all cynically bundled with gun buybacks. It’s

Why Labor polices speech, not the terror watchlist

The Weimar precedent haunts Australia: a democracy that polices speech while indulging violence hands the future to authoritarians.