Month: April 2026 (Page 1 of 3)
What the bill actually does: Removes the sunset clause — these powers are now permanent
Allows compulsory questioning of children as young as 14
Lets the Attorney-General personally issue questioning warrants — no court approval required
Makes it a criminal offence to tell anyone (including your family) that you’ve been questioned
Gives ASIO the power to reject your chosen lawyer and severely restricts what your lawyer can do or say during questioning
Strips away your right to silence — you must answer their questions or face jail
This is not about catching terrorists anymore.
This is about giving an intelligence agency the power to secretly drag any Australian in for interrogation without suspecting you of any crime.
106 politicians just voted to hand ASIO these powers.
Only 8 had the courage to vote No.
Your right to remain silent?
Your right to proper legal defense?
Your right to know when the state is targeting you? Gone. Eroded. Normalised.
This is how freedoms die — not with a bang, but with a quiet division in Parliament House.
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1. We send them to war with rules of engagement that make their work impossible.
2. We abandon them when they get back home with a dysfunctional DVA and a total lack of empathy for their PTSD.
3. We persecute the best among them with endless years of investigations, trial by media, and the never-ending threat of prosecution.
4. Our politicians have the gall to stand up on ANZAC day and speak of their courage in the face of the enemy, whilst being their enemies right here at home.
On top of this they say the public isn’t responsible enough to own firearms , yet they want us to go to war
They’ve spent how many million in persecuting Ben Roberts Smith that could have been spent on supporting returned services. 300 million !
The only war criminals are the Ministers that sent our military overseas to fight.
If this trial goes ahead and BRS is convicted and a precedent is set, the Australian Defence Forces are finished.
I once thought if we went to war , even disabled I would have turned up to do something. Wash dishes whatever in support. NOT NOW.
Hang your head in shame Allah Albanazi.
Why aren’t Howard, Bush and Blair in prison.
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you’re willing to stand alone is a wilderness — an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and searching. It is a place as dangerous as it is breathtaking, a place as sought after as it is feared. The wilderness can often feel unholy because we can’t control it, or what people think about our choice of whether to venture into that vastness or not. But it turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it’s the bravest and most sacred place you will ever stand.”
― Brené Brown,