When the Labor Party won the federal election off a tired, limping, and lost Morrison Liberal Party – we knew we were in for a fight.

A fight to stop the nation falling into the clutches of Marxist race activism. A fight to stop our children from being butchered by an unholy alliance between the medical industry and transgender activists. A fight to keep our history and culture alive in the face of vicious censors and entire ministries devoted to erasing and re-writing the past to better suit the ambitions of a $40 billion per year machine of grievance.

Yes. We knew we’d have to fight.

After watching Opposition Leader Peter Dutton being dragged (yes, dragged) into a common sense position by the vastly superior Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Jacinta Price, during the Voice to Parliament referendum, there was hope among the conservative community that Dutton had learned his lesson.

Standing up against progressive politics is popular, even if the press hurls abuse.

Instead, the latest censorship row between the only free speech platform on the internet – Twitter – and the Australian government has demonstrated, beyond all reasonable doubt, that the most illiberal, disgusting, and controlling aspects of the Morrison era were not a mistake purged by defeat, but rather an ongoing concern for conservatives.

It has turned the stomachs of every free-thinking, democratically-minded Australian that the Leader of the Opposition finds value in censoring the news.

That Mr Dutton believes it is the role of the State to control, via an unelected and heavily politicised bureaucracy, what Australians are allowed to know about their world.

The idea of banning something if it is distressing, violent, or might lead to social unrest is exactly the same argument given by the Chinese communist regime when they erased Tiananmen Square from history.

This was done by the CCP because it reflected poorly on their leadership. They weren’t interested in preventing civil unrest, they were worried about a revolution against their despotism and corruption. They were worried about the fall of communism at the bloody hands of truth.

We can sit here all day and give examples of why censoring the news is wrong – or we can simply point out the hypocrisy and double standards of those who seek to silence us.

Who believes, for one moment, that the e-Safety Commissioner and the Albanese government would dare to issue a censorship order to Twitter regarding the footage of George Floyd’s arrest? They wouldn’t, because the progressive left would take to the streets and tear Parliament apart. What about telling Twitter to remove all footage of Gaza? They won’t do this either because the pro-Hamas supporters who have suffocated our cities with their Islamic antisemitism and anti-Western hatred would threaten the Albanese regime and ruin his re-election chances. Here’s one for Mr Dutton. Why wasn’t the footage of the destruction of the Captain Cook memorial taken down when those involved threatened to start a race war against the Australian people? The political class has buried this content. They haven’t made a single arrest. They did not keep us safe. Instead of issuing content removal fines, perhaps they could try arresting the criminals behind the footage…

Criminalising social media companies for showing the reality of our world is stain on Australia’s reputation. It is as repugnant as watching freedom protesters shot on the streets of Melbourne with rubber bullets during the Dan Andrews era.

And so leftwing, progressive content – no matter how violent, no matter how distressing – will never be taken down by Australia’s Ministry of Censorship.

Do not get me started on misinformation and disinformation.

There is no onus on the public forum to be a sea of facts. It is the noise of humanity. It is a mechanism for social discussion. It is the testing ground where government propaganda goes to die.

And while the crowd gets it wrong sometimes, they get to the truth more often than the government would like.

Social media is a billion shovels digging up the skeletons buried by the State. Besides, if absolute truth was the purpose of social media, the government would have to remove itself for openly lying during the Covid era where the official narrative led to actual death and harm. The government is the worst abuser of online misinformation, with everything from gender ideology to climate change proving to be nothing more than puffs of smoke.

Something tells me that Churchill would have rolled up the misinformation and disinformation Act, stuffed it in his pipe, smoked it, and blown its ashes in the face of Julie Inman Grant.

Mr Dutton is a fool to support Labor on their censorial binge. Knowing this about his character makes him wholly and forever unsuitable as a future Prime Minister.

Australia does not need a policeman in charge of a police state.

We need a politician who is capable of setting aside their desire to ‘crackdown’ and ‘get tough’ on citizens in favour of performing their sacred duty of protecting the rights, liberty, and prosperity of society.

The only thing Australia needs policed is its politicians, for they are out of control and drunk on power via ‘safety’.

We are not safe.

Mr Dutton doesn’t like the idea of social media companies being ‘above the law’. Well, thank god they are, Mr Dutton, because the law has become a brute that attacks ordinary Australians and protects the criminal class. The law supports the violation of rights on the whim of politicians. The law is an ideological monster and a social media company run by a foreign billionaire is the only justice Australians have right now.

The Liberals are unelectable. Mr Dutton is unelectable. Australia has been cast adrift with only a collection of minor parties to steer her toward a better future.

Alexandra Marshall is an independent writer. If you would like to support her work, shout her a coffee over at donor-box.