Last night in Canberra, I attended One Nation’s launch of the trailer for A Super Progressive Movie – the feature-length film that grew out of the ‘Please Explain’ animated series started by James Ashby four years ago.
The Super Progressive Movie trailer is here.
According to bureaucrats, this trailer is too controversial and may offend a person to be screened in Parliament House which caused a last minute swap to another theatre in Canberra.
The movie launches on Australia Day 2026 and can… pic.twitter.com/JTG44OosO6
— One Nation Australia (@OneNationAus) November 25, 2025
What should have been a straightforward 5.30 pm event in Parliament House turned into a late-night 9.15 pm screening at Dendy Canberra after parliamentary services pulled the booking yesterday morning. The reason given: the content ‘might offend someone’.
The 90-second trailer and the first five minutes of the film (set in a dystopian ‘Naarm’) were shown to a packed cinema. Despite the short notice and the late hour, around half of the original ticketholders still turned up. Some had driven from Wagga Wagga, others from interstate. Dendy Canberra looked after everyone, and seeing it on the big screen with the big sound in layback chairs was impressive.
The film is deliberately antagonistic. It takes direct aim at identity politics, bureaucratic overreach, and what the creators see as the victimhood industry. A reference to Pauline Hanson’s line in the Q&A summed it up: ‘I want to make heroes, not victims. Stop acting like victims.’
Senator Ralph Babet made a surprise cameo appearance during the QandA session. His question was: ‘Can I be in the movie?’ He has been a supporter of Pauline Hanson in Senate voting and – watch this space – he just might get a Guernsey.
Guest voices in the movie include Paul Murray, Peta Credlin, Hollie Hughes, and – perhaps – ‘someone’ from the ABC. The film is proudly brought to you ‘with no help from Screen Australia’.
What happened yesterday is symptomatic of a wider problem. Fear of causing offence is crippling the Australian arts industry. While independent animation creators scrape together funding, Screen Australia recently funded – I kid you not – an adult animated movie entitled Lesbian Space Princess.
It’s good to know your tax money is being well spent and ticks all the right ideological boxes. Seriously.
Meanwhile, a film that dares to take the piss out of Woke nonsense gets banned from Parliament House. In truth, it’s probably the best marketing the movie could have received.
People forget that the actual Parliament building was designed so that the people could walk over the Parliament to symbolically remind politicians that the people are sovereign, not them. Of course, you cannot really walk over the Parliament anymore, with security measures changing the symbolism to reflect the reality of our current freedoms.
It was refreshing to see so many young people at the event. This is something the Liberal Party is struggling with, and they refuse to believe that you don’t have to be Woke to get young people interested in politics.
Some of the production staff of the ‘Please Explain’ series originally knew little about politics. But by working on the series, many of them have become One Nation converts. As one member of the production team put it, ‘I’m totally Pauline-pilled.’
At the launch of A Super Progressive Movie at Dendy Canberra after Parliament House cancelled the original event. https://t.co/494MKPTpnp
— Dr Michael de Percy (@FlaneurPolitiq) November 26, 2025
The team know the film will provoke. Their phrase for it: ‘We’re gonna give ’em a bit of a tickle.’ To paraphrase the producer, there are sure to be many Wokerati who will be required to retract their laughter.
The movie is scheduled for general release on Australia Day, 26 January 2026, followed by Q&A screenings in every capital city and some international venues. Tickets went on sale tonight via the new website www.superprogressivemovie.com.
This isn’t just a movie. The creators call it a love letter to Australia and a deliberate attempt to bust apart the closed shop of the Australian film industry. Tonight proved the establishment is already rattled.
Parliament House might have shut the door, but the people walked across town and filled a cinema instead. That says everything you need to know about where the real energy is right now. And I really hope it offends all the right people!
Dr Michael de Percy @FlaneurPolitiq is the Spectator Australia’s Canberra Press Gallery Correspondent. If you would like to support his writing, or read more of Michael, please visit his website.
