/news/moira-deeming-dumped/241379 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:07:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 /news/moira-deeming-dumped/241379#comment-682591 Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:07:04 +0000 /?p=241379#comment-682591 Good riddance to her. Unfortunately, she will probably jump ship to One Nation, which is polling well everywhere. The rise of One Nation is alarming and needs to be resisted.
Sadly there will never be justice for the day when Deeming hosted her rally and neo-Nazis threatened the lives of trans women and vilified them further. Existing laws were broken that day, police refused to enforce them, and queer leaders declined to seek justice. To make matters worse, the mainstream media erased the victimisation of trans women, barely mentioning them at all, and only talking about the generic offensiveness of the Nazi salute. A slap in the face to trans women.
We can only hope that authorities will now proactively enforce the law where vilification against queer people is encountered, now that we have long-sought, purpose-made protections. We can only hope queer leaders are equally proactive.
This matter sits at the intersection of a related one: the weaponisation of hate speech laws in NSW and QLD to silence pro-Palestinians supporters. Legitimate free speech is being censored and punished. Just yesterday a pro-Palestinian artist in QLD was contacted by police and had to remove artworks from his website which were literally commentaries on this very censorship! Scary. Genuine hate speech should be punished – while good faith opinions about land disputes, statehood, sovereignty, military violence, and legal and morally culpability, should be protected from censorship- just as we are free to speak about any other matter in public life.

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