Fraser Anning (Queensland, Katter's Australian Party) Share this | Hansard source

Following the example of the socialist state of Victoria, the New South Wales parliament has introduced 150-metre exclusion zones around abortion clinics, with draconian penalties, including jail terms, for those who breach them. These zones are nothing more than anti-free-speech areas. Worse still, the targeted nature of these exclusion zones is that they exclude only those who are peacefully defending the rights to life of the unborn. No such exclusion zones or jail terms are applied to violent antifa Marxist extremists. Like Victorian socialist premier Daniel Andrews, it seems that so-called Liberal premier Gladys Berejiklian considers peaceful protests defending the right to life to be more of a threat to society than violent anarchist criminals. These laws not only show utter contempt for freedom of religion and free speech but also would appear to show total contempt for the concept of liberalism.