Invited to address a rally in defence of Beijing’s victims on a freezing day in Sydney, I referred to media reports that the crucial question before the nation was whether Australia’s essential values are ‘multicultural’. Multiculturalism was foisted on the country by notorious Whitlam government minister and alleged Mafia associate Al Grassby. The word itself is so hopelessly imprecise as to be worthy of Humpty Dumpty’s scornful declaration that, ‘When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’

Despite attempts to misrepresent Pauline Hanson’s rejection of multiculturalism, she was obviously referring to the fact that even from Australia’s genesis as a penal colony, we have always rejoiced in what was already and still is the basic value of the English-speaking world – liberty as a human right. Consistent with this, our first governor, the great Arthur Phillip, rejoiced in Lord Mansfield’s celebrated ruling in Somerset v. Stewart that the common law does not tolerate slavery. He made the crucial point that as there can be no slavery in a free land, there could be no slaves at Botany Bay.

The result is that Australia’s foundational and present-day values are about liberty and the love of country, values for which our warriors have served across the world. They are the same values which made our young country one of the oldest continuing democracies in the world. Little wonder then that all, including immigrants, are expected to endorse them. Those values come from a distillation of what Winston Churchill accurately described as the ‘title deeds of freedom’ of the English-speaking peoples – the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, and the American Declaration of Independence. The essence of all this is in Thomas Jefferson’s majestic words about those truths we hold to be self-evident: that ‘all men are created equal’, that they are ‘endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights’ and that among these are ‘Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.’

The shockingly persecuted Falun Gong are of course equally endowed with these same rights. They are the gentle people seen performing slow-motion exercises in parks across the world, and whose want is to be allowed to live according to three virtues: Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.

Could there be a more vivid contrast between those virtues and the brutal dictatorship imposed on China from 1949, with over 65 million Chinese dying before the communists accepted that communism never works? Forced to change to survive, the communists had on their doorstep a perfect blueprint for a successful change. This was Hong Kong – a thriving civilisation built upon the rule of law and individual freedom, even if the communists had always warned the British on pain of immediate invasion not to introduce self-government. Rejecting Hong Kong as a model and allied with corrupt big business, the communists introduced the market but simultaneously retained the horrors of their bloodthirsty dictatorship.

Later, when the Chinese people rushed to embrace the gentle principles of the Falun Gong and its link with traditional China, the movement rapidly became far more popular than the Communist party itself. Threatened by a moral renaissance they feared above all, the communists targeted the Falun Gong with unprecedented, cruel, and extrajudicial persecution. The evidence is incontestable: the independent London Tribunal meticulously established that thousands are now being systematically murdered every single year to fuel a lucrative, state-shielded transplant market.

The punishment the communists devised is the excruciating, industrialised theft of human organs. This involves strapping young, healthy people to hospital beds and, often while fully conscious, ripping out their living kidneys, hearts, lungs, and eyes, and selling them on the global market. As recently noted here, this tyranny goes to the very top. An ominous conversation inadvertently broadcast revealed dictators Putin and Xi musing on continuous organ transplantation granting the privileged, above all themselves, long life, even immortality.

According to the 2025 Brussels Declaration of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, this depravity extends to Tibetans, house Christians (those who hold unapproved services at home), and Uighur Muslims whose organs reportedly attract a chilling 300-per-cent premium in the Middle East. This is because they are assumed free of alcohol and pork and therefore ‘halal’.

It should be noted that in all the recent loud street demonstrations in Western cities, including Sydney and Melbourne, ostensibly concerned with Muslims in Palestine, not one solitary word seems to be spoken for the thousands of young Muslims being strapped to operating tables by the communists and ripped apart for profit.

While activists swarm Western streets to pressure governments over Gaza, a digital blackout lets the West ignore Beijing. While the US Congress is now acting vigorously with bipartisan intent to pass the proposed Falun Gong Protection Act, freezing assets and banning perpetrators, Canberra remains inactive. Our politicians cannot claim ignorance. As early as November 2018, after Canadian human rights legend David Matas presented irrefutable evidence proving the horrific scale of organ transplant tourism, the Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade laid bare these exact atrocities in a landmark report titled Compassion, Not Commerce.

In response, Liberal Senator Dean Smith stood out as the leading, uncompromising voice on this issue. He successfully rallied a broad coalition of senators to introduce and pass the Migration Amendment Disclosure Bill through the chamber in 2024. But because the bill lapsed at the parliament’s dissolution, the mandate dropped into the cowardly silence of the Albanese government. Responsibility for this complicity spans a parliamentary shell game of inertia, as Home Affairs ignores civil borders, Foreign Affairs refuses to utilise Magnitsky sanctions out of economic fear, and the Attorney-General deflects criminal code reforms into endless academic debate.

Concerned Australians should call on the Albanese government to lift the moral stains they are imposing on our national reputation. Just reintroduce Dean Smith’s lapsed bill, and ban this vile trade entirely, just as the Americans are doing. While our forebears genuinely meant ‘Never again’ after the horrors of 1939-45, the Albanese government should not now court Beijing’s criminal indulgence by being a complicit bystander to an era of industrialised murder.