SENATOR Ralph Babet has refused to bend to attempts by his Senate colleagues to force him to attend “re-education training” from what he calls “a Uniparty-approved bureaucrat” to be lectured on “how not to offend the perpetually offended Left”.
This lunacy comes straight out of the Maoist/Stalinist dissident shaming textbook, that has alarmingly and unbelievably crept into Australian political life. Babet knows this and calls it out as “fascism”, which in our context, it is, since we are essentially a capitalist-corporate state.
Babet has revealed that his fellow Senators (Labor, Greens and several Liberals) in cahoots with Canberra bureaucrats attached to the Independent Parliamentary Standards Commission reprimanded him for breaching the code of behaviour twice for posts in 2024.and dragged him through nearly one and a half years of secret bureaucratic processes while under a gag order.
“They threatened me with prison if I spoke out about what they were doing to me,” he said. “Finally the process is over and I can now talk about it.”
Babet’s great offence was to use rapper-style language in social media posts. In a post in which he shared a video from outspoken prize fighter Andrew Tate, Senator Babet wrote: “My n****r nailed this one. One hundred percent [sic].”
In a second post, he added: “In my house we say ph****t, r****d and n****r. We are sick of you woke ass clowns. Cry more. Write an article. Tweet about me. No one cares what you think.”
The charade was conducted by senators and bureaucrats who apparently haven’t read modern or European history and are therefore ignorant of the freedoms implicit in English and American constitutional and common law.
The Standards Commission, made up of politicians, can determine a more serious sanction, such as a fine of between 2% and 5% of a politician’s annual salary, suspension from parliament, or being sacked from parliamentary committees.
The Greens’ democracy spokesperson, Steph Hodgins-May, said the body’s first public ruling exposed the watchdog as having “no real teeth”. “If a senator can ignore an independent ruling like this, something is clearly broken,” she whined.
The action has prompted Senator Babet to “push to make speech free again”, through a petition in support of his Bill to put free speech more specifically into the Commonwealth constitution. Cairns News notes that free speech is already implicit in Section 116 which clearly states “the Commonwealth shall not restrict the free exercise of any religion”.
However, perhaps Babet is correct in seeking it to be more clearly stated, as in the US First Amendment to the United States Constitution that groups freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition together as clearly stated rights.
“How dare they try and tell a Senator what he can and cannot say. The only people who can tell a Senator to stop talking is the voter in the ballot box. By silencing me, they are really silencing you, the voters,” says Senator Babet.
“They will never silence me. They will never make me stop speaking the truth.”
Babet provided a list of apparently “prohibited statements” that the Canberra political class claims are “offensive” and worthy of punishment and “re-education” courses.
– Women do not have penises.
– Children cannot choose their sex.
– There is one God, and His son Jesus Christ died for our sins.
– The British Empire was a force for good.
– Australia is a Christian country.
“If that offends you I simply don’t care Margaret,” said Babet. “Australia is going down a dark path. Never apologise to the woke mob. Labor, Liberal and the Greens have to go.”
Babet has posted his response to Albanese’s Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 and his proposed Constitutional amendment.
He says the Bill is a rushed piece of legislation that the government intends to force through both houses of parliament in just two days.
“This bill represents a dangerous shift in Australian law. Its stated aim is to combat hatred and extremism, yet it expands the power of the state to regulate speech, opinions, and beliefs.
“Laws that blur the line between genuine extremism and expression undermine the very freedoms they claim to protect.
“History shows that when governments are empowered to decide which ideas are acceptable, those powers are inevitably used beyond their original purpose.
“Vague definitions of “hate” and “extremism” invite politicised enforcement, selective prosecution, and the silencing of lawful dissent. Once speech is regulated, it is never the powerful who are censored first, it is critics and political opponents.
“A free society does not require enforced agreement. It requires open debate, robust disagreement, and the freedom to challenge prevailing orthodoxies without fear of punishment.
“For this reason, I drafted and introduced to the Senate the Constitution Alteration (Right to Free Speech) Bill.
“My bill would place the right to free speech beyond the reach of future parliaments, bureaucrats, and ideological fashions. The people would have the chance at a referendum to support my bill and protect free speech constitutionally.
“Constitutional protection would ensure that speech cannot be criminalised simply because it is controversial, unpopular, or politically inconvenient.”
Senator Babet called on the Parliament to reject speech policing laws and to affirm freedom as a constitutional guarantee.
Australians who support free speech, democratic accountability, and the protection of Australians from censorship, are urged to sign the petition in support of his Constitution Alteration (Right to Free Speech) Bill.
