Billboard Chris rightly objected that he obstructed no-one in the Brisbane Mall yet was handed a "complaint" by a city council bylaws officer.
Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner needs to explain if his council actually supports free speech.

BILLBOARD Chris, the Canadian man who protests across the western world against the abuse of children by transgender activists, has been fined $806 under the petty, authoritarian, so-called bylaws of Brisbane City Council for peacefully standing in the Brisbane Mall with a sandwich board sign draped over his shoulders.

This act of peaceful protest apparently prompted some sort of “complaint” to the council who sent one of their bylaw officers to read a notice accusing Billboard Chris (Elston) of “obstructing or unreasonably disturbing any person lawfully using the Mall”.

Elston was clearly obstructing no-one. The only person doing the obstructing was the council officer, who was obstructing a person going about a peaceful protest in a public place.

Queensland police, in addition to two cycle patrol constables, sent two other female constables to enforce the council’s pathetic allegations. Police were left with the embarrassing job of issuing a move-on order to Elston, who chose arrest over obeying a spurious allegation by a bureaucrat.

We wonder how Brisbane LNP Mayor Adrian Schrinner will respond to this incident. Given that council Liberals have previously supported transvestite library readings it wouldn’t be surprising to see their endorsement of this attack on free speech.

Elston is in Australia for a legal free speech challenge which has been described as a “litmus test” for the international protection of the right to free speech against government censorship. Brisbane City Council just showed it is part of the authoritarian trend.

Elston will be visiting Sydney and Canberra before the trial in Melbourne at the end of March. He hopes to have time to hit the streets in both cities and appear at public speaking events.

Elston’s case goes back to February 28th, 2024, when Elston took to “X” to share a Daily Mail article titled “Kinky secrets of UN trans expert revealed”, in reference to Teddy Cook, an Australian woman who had her breasts removed and now identifies as a man.

Cook openly and brazenly posts about bestiality and says trans-identified people have better sex when they are high on illicit drugs, and wants government-funded childhood sex changes. 

The article, and accompanying tweet, criticised the appointment of Cook to a World Health Organization “panel of experts” set to advise on global transgender policy – and Australians wonder where all the transgenderist propaganda comes from.  

Cook complained about the post to Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, who requested that “X” remove the content. X owner and free speech advocate Elon Musk initially refused, but following a subsequent formal removal order from the Commissioner, later geo-blocked the content in Australia.

X has since also filed an appeal against the order at the Administrative Review Tribunal in Melbourne.  

Elston, with the support of ADF (Advocates Defending Freedom) International and the Australian Human Rights Law Alliance, and alongside Elon Musk’s “X”, is appealing the violation of his right to peacefully share his convictions.   

The case will be heard in Melbourne for five days on the week beginning March 31st. Members of the public are invited to support Chris’s legal case here: https://adfinternational.org/campaign/support-billboard-chris   

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28 thought on “Petty authoritarianism of Brisbane City Council bureaucracy exposed”
  1. It might come as a surprise to most peeps but Council “rates” are NOT a charge for local services.

    They’re COVERT and INEQUITABLE PROPERTY TAXES!

    Imposed and charged by a non government institution specifically entrenched to camouflage an otherwise hidden and EXORBITANT TAX!

    In short… we’re being conned and fleeced, but we seem happy with that, otherwise we’d be squealing.

    But at least it gives the petty bureaucrat simps in Councils an opportunity to get their rocks off by intruding on our rights and privileges and being bigger than they feel.

  2. Dennis wrote and I agree with you,

    “Plus, of course, two referendums have refused to grant any authority for the existance of local government, and State Government or Federal cannot delegate their responsibility to a lower power, let alone just a mere corporation, a business for profit.“

    The Wicked Wild West writes,

    “Regulations

    In any act, Parliament may delegate authority to executive government (administered by government departments) or local government to make delegated legislation to support the act. Regulations are a form of delegated legislation. Examples include local laws, by-laws, rules, ordinances and orders-in-Council. Collectively, these forms of delegated legislation are also termed subordinate legislation, secondary legislation, statutory rules, legislative instruments, statutory instruments and subsidiary legislation. The ability of Parliament to delegate lawmaking powers concerning the administration of acts enables Parliament to pass legislation on a broader range of matters.”

    https://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/WebCMS/WebCMS.nsf/content/wa-acts-and-regulations

  3. daviddd2, Irrespective of any acquittal, the cost of the process and the process itself is punishment in its own right. The cops are supposed to apply the law, not the requirements of a council official who in a public space has no greater standing than the accused.

    Absolutely daviddd2, the person or persons who may represent the accused of a victimless crime is always the monetary winner, the police can and may in my personal experiences double down to defend their lies, there stupidity and there position as to not miss out on the next promotion.

    After years of experience it always pays to get a PI onto the people accusing, charging or threatening you with legal matters.

    I have a saying daviddd2, If ya bogged down to the belly, you may as well all get covered in mud 😆😅🤣

  4. According to the Mayo Clinic

    “After a time of adjusting to puberty blockers and confirming gender identity, gender-affirming hormone therapy might be an option. This can develop masculine or feminine secondary sex characteristics to help better align the body with an individual’s gender identity. Some of the changes triggered by gender-affirming hormone therapy cannot be reversed. Others may require surgery to reverse.”

    The male body is intrinsically different to the female body and there may be a range of harmful side affects from consiuming puberty blockers.

    A significant paper National Institute of Health paper in 2017 indicated insufficient work has been done to determine the
    longterm consequences of consumption of puberty blockers and claims of no consequences may be erroneous. Airy assumptions that there are no conserquences may be misleas=ding since they may be life-time related. Since this is essentially a new development arising since 2020 we now see a growing number of those who were formerly children, now adults, objecting to what they were persuaded by others to do. Others who did not do what they were preaching.

  5. Clearly the Brisbane City Council does not care about the welfare of children – not ever being children themselves? These puberty blockers (which prevent children maturing into adults capable of reproduction) are capable of causing major harms to children who are given them. Changes that will last a lifetime without reprieve.

  6. Clearly the Brisbane City Council does not care about the welfare of children – not ever being children themselves? These puberty bloclers are capable of caused major harms to children that will last a lifetime.

  7. Jase: “That local law officer will be a scape goat and dismissed as the Brisbane City councils have again gone outside the roads rates and rubbish moto.”

    Irrespective of any acquittal, the cost of the process and the process itself is punishment in its own right. The cops are supposed to apply the law, not the requirements of a council official who in a public space has no greater standing than the accused.

    Before they arrest or charge anyone, the cops are supposed to reasonably determine, on available evidence, that an offence occurred. The offence here seems to be that the accused failed to obey an unlawful “move on” order from the cops.

    And that’s not a council official in action but a cop that is apparently at this stage misusing his authority, either misguidedly or in retaliation because the accused rejected an apparently unlawful order. Notwithstanding that it was the council official who initiated the event.

    Again, irrespective of any eventual acquittal, the cost of the process and the process itself is punishment in its own right. It is a COERCIVE AND UNJUSTIFIED attempt to elicit OBEDIENCE to “authority”, rightly or wrongly, and without due consideration for a citizen’s lawful rights.

    In a nutshell, it registers as a grossly sad reflection on the state of our country and how low we have sunk. Lest we forget what it is our brave Aussies fought for to give us!

  8. Why is it that a supposed criminal offence in one State or region is needed to be challenged in a court of a different State or region? Our own ex-police officer, Wayne Glew of Geraldton has complained of this situation previously.

  9. That’s going be a difficult one for the local law officer to defend on the court day.

    That local law officer will be a scape goat and dismissed as the Brisbane City councils have again gone outside the roads rates and rubbish moto.

    I wonder if it was a Brisbane city unelected person on the 20th bosster shot sticking there nose in to something without thinking 🤔

  10. Y’all don’t ever forget about the pathetic police punks who harassed the perfectly peaceful grandmas sitting in the park during the phony pandemic!

  11. No Australian Parliament since Queen Victoria died just 22 days after Federation in January 1st, 1901, has been valid as we have not had a lawfully, traditionally, referendum accepted Monarch since She died.
    So there are NO LAWS ADDED, ALTERED, CREATED THAT HAVE BEEN SIGNED INTO POWER AND AUTHORITY BY OR ON HEHALF OF AN ACCEPTABLE AUSTRALIAN MONARCH, correctly Styled and Titled, and who issued Letters Patent to any Governor Generals.

    So all this cop and government bullsh it in the market place is totally unConstitutional and they can be ignored or treated in your self defence of. However you must not attend Admiralty fake courts, and must wait for Common Law Courts to be reinstalled this year if you want real justice to prevail.

  12. Anyone who submits to the fake authorities claimed by local councils or any Australian governments, State or Federal, needs to wake the **** up. They are having you on.
    They are charging your Fake Corporation/based on your stolen Birth Certificate, your Strawman business for profit that they created in your name in CAPITOL LETTERS at your birth … and printed money, fiat money out of thin air, based on average earnings of a future person like you.
    You are NOT THAT CORPORATION, and can be it’s beneficiary if you want to pay fines, taxes, interest on loans, etc., but you can refuse to be a part of that system or parts thereof that suit you.
    It was not lawfully established as you could not agree to the registration as a baby, and your parents cannot make that decision in your ignorance under their own laws of contract.
    Plus, of course, two referendums have refused to grant any authority for the existance of local government, and State Government or Federal cannot delegate their responsibility to a lower power, let alone just a mere corporation, a business for profit.
    Their Admiralty System of law is not law but just corporate rules … once you know, you know …and their courts and judges have NO JURISDICTION ON Landmasses, so they deceive you by calling their courts to be corporate ship decks with the Captain being the judge.
    What a load of bullsh it.
    If you fall for their ploys, you deserve to get what you get, and pay what they demand.

    The police corporation/Business for profit that upholds all these scams is not a lawful entity that is part of the Commonwealth of Australia, and it also has NO AUTHORITY OVER YOU OR YOUR PROPERTY.

    Do not pay their unlawful fines.
    Do not attend their unlawful courts. Do not open any mail addressed to you in CAPITOL LETTERS as that is the company that they claim they made you to be strawman of.

    Shortly, within weeks to months, you will be paid back all that they have stolen from you, courtesy of President Donald Trump, because this in Australia was all done to you by our treasonous politicians and top bureaucrats, that have been or will be arrested for treason and will pay for their crimes against humanity in military tribunals … some in Gitmo, as these crimes are because you were registered in the District of Columbia, Washington DC/US City State Corporation as property/a slave of the Company run by the NWO elites/Deep State of the Western World.

  13. So there’s no politicians or honourable parliamentarians interested in protecting the public by setting up a public office to investigate police abuse of power, abuse of law and abuse of citizen’s rights. The citizens are all on their own? Nobody gives a sht about that? Oh, OK. It’s comforting to know we’re fkd if we don’t do as we’re told.

  14. If he’d dressed up in drag he would have been “protected” by both police and Council. GUARANTEED! But cops are prohibited in issuing move along orders, at least in NSW and most likely in QLD, in certain cases!

    So the gentleman has a good case against the police action. No doubt, the cops figured they could take the chance the abused citizen cannot afford a Supreme Court law suit against them.

    Most of the time they’re right, they can abuse their power without any consequences and get away with it! The only solution is stiff fines for the police to prevent such abuse and TOTAL financial cost and damages rehabilitation for the abused.

    Apart from that the Commonwealth Crimes Act from memory has stiff fines protecting political protest and brings into question the validity of the cop intervention no matter what State law says.

    We can dream , right? lol

    e.g.

    Sydney Criminal Lawyers
    Limitations on giving move on directions

    Section 200 of the LEPRA prohibits police from giving move on directions in relation to:

    Industrial disputes,
    Genuine demonstrations or protests,
    Processions, or
    Organised assemblies.

    However, an officer can give a move on direction in relation to a demonstration, protest or procession if he or she believes on reasonable grounds that:

    The direction is necessary to deal with a serious risk to safety, or
    Traffic is being obstructed and the event is not an authorised public assembly or is not being held substantially in accordance with its authorisation, and the police officer in charge of the scene has given the direction, and the direction is limited to those who are obstructing traffic.

  15. .. and note well, folks, the INTEGRAL part that the armies of shit-for-brains granny-bashing hired mercenary thugs play in all of this.

    They’re NOT “police”, just to be clear. These moronic Treasonous ARSEHOLES are on the payroll of foreign-owned CORPORATIONS which TRADE under the registered business names of the respective “police services” of every Australian state and territory.

    These bastards are HIRED MERCENARIES, folks, in the absolutely LITERAL meaning of that term. They work for COMMERCIAL COMPANIES, and NOT “government”, in exactly the SAME way as your local Wormald or Coles security guard.

    Except your local Coles security guard rarely pack-hunts innocent pedestrians and beats people to death in the middle of the street or shoots new recruits in the back.

    And just BTW, folks, the so-called “Brisbane City Council” is not “government” either, it is a COMMERCIAL COMPANY which TRADES under the registered business name of the “Brisbane City Council”. It has NO AUTHORITY to be making “laws” nor enforcing any such supposed “laws”, all they have the power to do is make “corporate polices” which ONLY apply to their OWN EMPLOYEES and no-one else.

    So you can see with crystal clarity, folks, here we have a COMMERCIAL COMPANY trading as the “Brisbane City Council” which employs heavily armed HIRED MERCENARY THUGS masquerading as “police” to ENFORCE its CORPORATE POLICIES on the people of Brisbane over whom it has no authority whatsoever.

    When oh when are the people of Australia EVER going to wake up and put these ARSEHOLES in their rightful place, which IMO is swinging on a sturdy length of rope?

  16. A good and decent man standing up to protect our children from the alleged unhinged bastards in positions of extreme power – a good and decent man simply wearing a billboard !

    Yet others do this extreme violence (see link hereunder) and not standing to protect our children or anyone else – Everyone in positions of authority has become totally unhinged with their atrocious failure to stand with all those decent people standing against tyranny and standing against horrific street violence >
    https://cairnsnews.org/2025/03/19/man-gets-chopped-up-during-sudanese-tribal-war-in-a-melbourne-suburb/

    Which would all the people prefer ?

  17. As far as I am concerned Billboard Chris is a wearing a large re-inforced T shirt (also called a sandwich board) with legal statement regarding the consent of a minor. He is a bastion of sanity and the free world.

    I am sure if he was walking around in a Megadeth T shirt saying ‘rust in peace’, the WRONGTHINK police would not so much as bat an eye.

    A child can not give legal consent, informed or otherwise, at the polls or to driving a car or having a tooth pulled. And it is perfectly legal to state this publicly or on a medical form.

    But the Marxist Long Marchers who are using children as a spearhead for their Transgenda say a child (who hasn’t even experienced puberty) can consent to having his balls cut off or having her ovaries surgically removed. Or having his or her normal psycho-sexual development chemically blocked.

    This is violation. This is evil.

    The only free speech Shrinner the Grinner believes in is speech that agrees with the Marxist ideologies of Briz City Council.

  18. Had he been displaying a LGBTQI+ billboard it is unlikely that Council would have taken any action against him.

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