Didn’t know where else to post this, but it’s pretty emblematic of how deeply corrupt our society is. Let me know if you think there’s a better community to post this in.
Back to the subject, the Streisand Effect is in force (taken down video reuploaded). This is me doing my small part in that.
That’s not normally how it works. A politician can’t get sued for something he says in parliament, but I’ve never heard of the record of what he said being inadmissible before.
I’m no lawyer, quite possibly I’m misunderstanding this https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/13/youtube-personality-friendlyjordies-suffers-setback-in-john-barilaro-defamation-case
Hopefully the guy appeals, the judge seems to using some tortured logic to take the governments side, claiming it’s illegal for citizens to criticize politicians statements made in parliament, and that the politician would be oppressed by the citizens being able to defend himself with what the politician literally said. I’m Canadian, not Australian, and that would absolutely not fly here, parliamentary privilege is mostly to keep them from suing each other for defamation,
I believe they ended up settling so no chance of appeal.
Another pollie who is alledged to be a rape apologist sued some random twitter user for alleging that. This pollie, whom I affectionate title adolf kipfler, after his views and face respectively, is a very odius man. In his inaugural speech to parliament in 2001 stated that our society was sometimes “too compassionate”.
Lovely bloke