Free speech in Australia was already on life support before Victoria’s so-called “hate speech” laws passed this week.

Deeply flawed anti-discrimination laws, which also exist in other states, now have the frightening overlay of criminal sanctions in Victoria.

That potentially means jail simply for speaking the truth about gender or marriage.

The Australian Christian Lobby’s Victorian director Jasmine Yuen summed it up well when she said she feared the “subjective and undefined terminology” used in the Bill could see Victorians hauled in front of the courts for expressing contentious views, such as stating that “trans women are not women”.

Australia’s anti-discrimination laws are already “subjective and undefined” – one only has to read the judgement of Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal Member Jeremy Gordon in the case brought against me by two LGBTIQA+ drag queens to know that.

Lowering the bar further is legally reckless for a society that venerates its ANZACs for fighting and dying for our freedoms.

Victoria has form in using the threat of jail against its citizens so that the wishes of radical LGBTIQA+ activists can be carried out.

Even the hapless Victorian Liberals support jailing parents for up to ten years if they try and stop their child from being injected with sterilising puberty blockers, taking their support for the so called “anti-conversion” laws to the 2022 election.

Thankfully the Liberals belatedly saw sense and did not repeat this mistake,  opposing this week’s “hate speech” laws.

But it wasn’t enough to stop Labor and the Greens ramming it through.

One of the big changes this week was the insertion of the word “likely” into the law.

To go to jail, intent or some objective “reasonable persons” test, is no defence.

If what a citizen does is “likely” to incite contempt, revulsion or severe ridicule against a minority group, you can be dragged before the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal and ultimately sent to jail.

If this test was applied to the case brought against me by the two Queensland drag queens who are suing me for saying they are dangerous role models for children (which they are), I could be in even more trouble than I currently am.

Australia’s regime of flawed anti-discrimination/anti-vilification laws have much in common and Victorian and NSW cases have been cited the two trials I have been through.

Having sat through around 10 days of court room legal arguments and read hundreds of pages of submissions against me over the past five years, it is clear to me this week’s Victorian laws have been constructed to ensure people like me can never get away with exercising freedom of speech when calling out the nefarious agenda of the LGBTIQA+ political movement.

Victoria has even made “drag queens” a protected attribute in the legislation.

Is this so people like me can never again criticise the gender-fluid and “camp culture” indoctrination agenda of children that even the expert witnesses in my case admit is behind DQST?

The public rationale for beefing up federal and state “hate speech” laws was the antisemitism crisis.

The LGBTIQA+ political lobby cleverly used it to smuggle in chilling advances to their agenda to completely snuff out free speech.

They are totalitarians and for a large part of their journey the Liberals supported this. Thankfully they woke up this week, but it was too late.

Family First plans to contest next year’s Victorian election.

Just as we are fighting at the current federal election for free speech and freedom of religion, our efforts will be redoubled in the state campaign.

Family First Senators, if elected, will fight for a Commonwealth override of state-based anti-free speech "hate speech" laws. Family First has already announced it will abolish state and federal human rights commissions which are activated by these laws.

Fighting to repeal anti-free speech and anti-family laws constructed by LGBTIQA+ political activists with the help of politicians will continue to be top of Family First’s agenda.