It’s not often I scoff out-loud scrolling X in the morning, but that’s what happened when I made the mistake of stopping to listen to Jacinta Allan.
The caption hooked me.
I have to call out the Liberal Leader’s hypocrisy when I see it. If you’re a political leader turning up to Pride on one day, and cosying up to One Nation on the next, then you’re not an ally. You’re just a Liberal.
I have to call out the Liberal Leader’s hypocrisy when I see it. If you’re a political leader turning up to Pride on one day, and cosying up to One Nation on the next, then you’re not an ally. You’re just a Liberal. pic.twitter.com/j8H40gcfmK
— Jacinta Allan (@JacintaAllanMP) February 1, 2026
Even on the surface, the Labor Premier has put forward a range of embarrassing and ludicrous accusations aimed at both One Nation and the Victorian Liberals.
Some of this seems to relate to a meme I found on Facebook from Victoria Labor accusing Opposition Leader Jess Wilson of campaigning with One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce.
Campaigning is doing a lot of heavy lifting, when really, they were booked to headline a state conference in Horsham.
As the Weekly Advertiser states:
The Across Victoria Alliance, consisting of groups from across Australia who advocate for land access rights in regards to mining, renewable energy and transmission line projects, will host its inaugural conference in Horsham on February 8 and 9.
Labor is bending the truth to call this campaigning, we might even say it is disinformation.
Regardless, Jess Wilson appears to have chickened out of the engagement and I am genuinely lost for words.
Following a headline in The Guardian which reads, Victorian opposition leader pulls out of event headlined by Barnaby Joyce after Premier accuses her of ‘cosying up’ to One Nation, the Premier mocked Wilson’s decision on X.
It is difficult to tell what’s worse, the petty behaviour of the Premier or the assumed skittishness of the Opposition leader…
Are the Victorian Liberals really so weak-kneed that the press scared them off appearing on stage beside the former Deputy Prime Minister and previous leader of their Coalition partner?
“Unavoidable scheduling conflict”. So hang on…she still wants to go if her schedule allows? pic.twitter.com/UjER1wQtH6
— Jacinta Allan (@JacintaAllanMP) February 2, 2026
Returning to Ms Allan’s X post…
The Premier appears to be forgetting that many members of the LGBTQ+ community support One Nation (not least of all, their chief of staff) because voters find the progressive inability to define biological reality insulting, they view the erasure of women’s rights in the name of trans rights as a threat to feminism and lesbian spaces, and are horrified at the invasion of gender politics into the lives of children.
To be clear, Opposition Leader Jess Wilson was marching at Pride carrying a Liberal-branded Pride banner. This action infringes on ideological areas Labor assumed to be theirs. Victoria Labor saw this and freaked out, shouting, Look! They’re like, you know, basically One Nation! This is incoherent politics.
Needless to say, accusing the Victorian Liberals (who are their own special breed of soggy moderation) of being bedfellows with One Nation is an insult to … One Nation, which wants nothing to do with them.
And yet the accusations in the actual video, rather than its text, paint the Victorian Premier in a far worse light.
Ms Allan isn’t complaining about right-wing hostility to radical gender politics generally, but rather making a reference to the federal vote against the weaponised (and now defunct) omnibus bill which Labor and its allies tried to shove through federal Parliament. That is, the bill which was meant to combat Islamic terrorism that some members sought to pad-out with the worst political censorship we’ve ever seen.
This is what she said:
‘We are seeing ultra-right politicians here and around the globe use this time in history as a moment to strike out against queer people. To really intimidate and cause great harm and distress to our queer community.
‘We won’t say one thing in Spring St and vote one way in Spring St and do another thing here marching at Pride.
‘For example, voting against anti-vilification laws that are designed to protect our queer community was so important.
‘The Liberal Party voted against it last year and backflipped when it was found out that it included support for our queer community.
‘Well, that hypocrisy is just unacceptable and at a time when transphobia and homophobia are causing great harm in our community.’
It is outrageous to off-handedly accuse political opponents of intimidation, harm, and distress over a disagreement on policy, especially when the Premier is fully aware that this sort of language is alluded to in the censorship bill.
The original draft of the omnibus bill cited: …cause a reasonable person who is the target, or member of the target group, to be intimidated, to fear harassment or violence, or to fear for their safety.
How easy it is for One Nation to protect women’s biological rights and spaces by rejecting transwomen, who are biological men, and then for Labor to turn around and reframe this necessary discrimination as intimidation or harassment.
This is why truth should always be supreme in law, and why feelings should never enter the legal frame.
The truth is that biology should determine sex-separated spaces and activities, regardless of feelings, while defending these (once assumed and basic rights) is not a form of intimidation or hate but a harsh dose of truth. Not my truth, but the truth.
Teal MPs tried to shoehorn in the official expansion of censorship to the final law, which was sensibly rejected (by Labor!) as it would have effectively made it impossible to criticise the activism of LGBTIQ+ groups.
Let us ask, what is hate speech against the LGBTIQ+ community?
Is it hate speech to say men, regardless of how they identify, should not be in women’s bathrooms or playing women’s sports?
Is it hate speech to say that trans activism has no place in schools?
Is it hate speech to say that gender affirming surgery, medical interventions, and social coercion amounts to child abuse?
Is it hate speech to be repulsed by sexualised drag queens dancing in front of toddlers or reading gender-activist books to preschoolers?
Shouldn’t Australians be able to openly criticise, reject, and have honest emotional reactions to these radical social ideas which were utterly rejected by every previous generation of humanity?
The repression of cultural rejection has become the last tool of activists who know the public has walked away from their causes.
We cannot allow a law, which was meant to be confined to radical Islam, to suffocate the breathing room out of society.
Or the legacy of that law to haunt state politics as some kind of brush to tarnish parties with what they might think.
Banning LGBTIQ+ activism from schools is something society may well wish to do at a later time to protect children. Politicians have no right to interfere with this discussion or paint it as hate because they tried to slide broad censorship laws in under the cover of an Islamic terror bill.
This episode in tedious state politics is very similar to the way Misinformation and Disinformation is being used to discredit and censor opposing opinion, particularly on electorally sensitive topics.
Don’t believe me? This is the speech given by the Premier about the event Wilson was booked to attend. (Emphasis is mine.)
‘To avoid the next cut, their current leader is spending this weekend cosying up with One Nation. She’s appearing at the misinformation convention right alongside Barnaby Joyce, to oppose cheaper renewable energy that keeps power bills down.
‘Mark my words: the Liberal National One Nation circus will push her further away from families and further towards the extremes.’
Fark-me. The Victorians couldn’t find the ‘right’ side of a Scotch Brite let alone politics.
However, Labor know exactly what they are doing. We are in very grave danger of the left misusing a variety of laws to falsely paint their opponents as hateful and dangerous using misleading and untrue rhetoric.
It has happened in Europe. It will happen here.
If the Liberals have even the slightest instinct of survival, they will move to rescind these laws immediately upon gaining government.
