Apply hate speech laws “equally” — send us all to jail

While new hate speech laws are being implemented, it seems all other dangerous forms of racism are being left unchecked in this country, he writes Tom Tanuki.

BRANDAN KOSCHEL prisoner He was sentenced last week to a year in prison after making a brief anti-Semitic speech at Sydney’s ‘March for Australia’ open mic on January 26. The judge observed at the end of the summary trial that he had imposed his harsh sentence, using one of Australia’s many new laws to deal with such things. “It should be used to deter others.”.

After Koschel’s sentence, I saw many people, including comrades, asking questions like this:

Are hate speech laws equally enforced?

Of course I know what they mean.

Now that Brandan is in prison for his short open mic jerk, what about all the other racist shit we have to put up with in this country? There’s a lot around.

What about the other ‘March for Australia’ speeches about the three nationwide protests held under its banner? They dispensed Islamophobic, anti-Aboriginal, anti-Indian and anti-African bile throughout the nation. What about them?

What about all the other dangerous forms of racism people experience in this country, which often lacks the exceptional institutional recognition that anti-Semitism enjoys among the bipartisan Zionists who occupy our Parliament?

I am not being evasive about the danger of antisemitism after the Bondi massacre. I say that no politician in Perth after January 26, 2026 can continue to claim that we must only deal with antisemitism. I mean Liam Alexander HallHe was finally named last week after he was arrested for allegedly attempting to bomb Perth’s Invasion Day rally.

From that day on, I will argue that anyone who threatened Aboriginal people in the lead-up to Invasion Day, and anyone before that who spent years demonizing Indigenous activists and sovereignty advocacy for political gain, helped cultivate, cultivate and fertilize the political conditions that led to this.

Forward Australia. Liberal Party. Newscorp. Sky News. Peter Dutton. Jacinta Price. National Socialist Network. March for Australian organisers. A lot.

All of them, among many others, let Liam Alexander Hall through the gates, pouring their bile out the Overton window for the sake of political gain. Someone who wants to be the heir of Brenton Tarrant, Australia’s last white supremacist mass murderer.

As a nation, it seems, we are proving to be as adept at forgetting Hall as we are at forgetting Tarrant. Because the bomb didn’t go off, or perhaps because Indigenous rights lobbyists were not as connected and ruthless as the Zionists. Our overlords don’t seem to care enough to jettison due process and civil liberties after Perth, as they did after Bondi.

They are not equal in this regard.

I have an anti-racist ideal that I have always supported in this column, which is that the community comes together to collectively reject racists and avoid constant state intervention. I know that my ideal cannot withstand sophisticated bombing attempts. But I believe we can suppress division at its social roots if we collectively stand up, stand tall, and insist on discrimination that we will not allow our neighbors to experience.

This is exactly what is ideal. But as state pressure increases, many of us feel more powerless than ever to realize this ideal. Many meekly demand that rising authoritarianism be applied equally.

On the right, they demand the same thing happen to us.

To choose one example among countless examples, the large far-right social media account “Kofy Time”, he asked the following:

NSN agitator Brandan Koschel was recently sentenced to 12 months in prison for inciting hatred against Jewish people under new hate speech laws.

While there’s no love lost here, it’s worth making clear: the Bondi attack was NOT carried out by far-right extremists.

Yet we continue to see pro-“Palestine” agitators openly chanting “Intifada” on the streets of Australia, with no apparent results.

So Australians keep asking:

Are hate speech laws equally enforced?

As he said. Are hate speech laws equally enforced?

Are we being treated equally under the umbrella of all these terrible new laws?

It seems to me that when we ask this question, we implicitly consent to the legitimacy of the law. I no longer need the repeal of draconian laws. I just want them to be spread thinly and evenly over the terrain, like spreading Vegemite on toast.

Having said that, I can see the state slowly and piecemeal becoming very coherent indeed.

They’re moving to Queensland Forbidden Things we say, slogans to promote freedom and livelihood for Palestinians “from river to sea” or “Globalize the Intifada”. They will not stop this activism and will likely fuel it. They will only enable us to cultivate a kind of disingenuous speech, dancing around saying more or less the same thing in front of the state censors.

They are in Sydney beating Pro-Palestinian people who came out to protest a genocidal president visiting our country.

And now, the federal police raid To tear down posters from the wall of a Canberra bar and investigate whether the owners could be charged under hate laws. The posters – and I say this with love, respect and solidarity for their owners – are docile. Pictures that make Trump look like Hitler. Far from the sharp edge of political radicalism, these are the things I’d expect to see on a sweet old leftist’s Facebook profile. But still our political police made an example of this bar. Extraordinary to see harmless left political ephemerality declared forbidden In 2026.

So is it equal?

Maybe we should try for real “equality” in 2026 against all this perverted political disobedience.

Tear down the posters from every bar in Australia and arrest all the saloonkeepers and bartenders for a while while we show all the posters to Jillian Segal.

Arrest anyone who has made any political speech in the last few years. To be safe.

Make a big list of every political slogan and logo and pass it through Parliament banning them all in one big bill.

And mandatorily imprison them all for at least a year, along with anyone who publicly expresses any political views in the country. White supremacists and environmentalists, pro-Palestinian activists and your mother with their GetUp petitions, LaRoucheans and Marxist-Leninists, unionists and works councils, Australian activists Grace Tame and Drew Pavlou. Everyone. Throw us all into detention facilities.

(I’m only saying this for Drew Pavlou. Literally give him a year and it will help him.)

I, for one, would welcome the opportunity to stop writing for a while about Australia’s deterioration into an authoritarian nightmare. Give my fingers a break.

Tom Tanuki is an IA columnist, author, satirist and anti-fascist activist whose weekly videos commenting on Australia’s political wing are published on: YouTube. You can follow him on Twitter/X @tom_tanuki.

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