By LYLE SHELTON
LAST Wednesday, my lawyers were back in the Queensland Supreme Court defending me in what has become a seven-year legal saga over my criticism of “Drag Queen Story Time” events for children.
I was unable to attend the hearing due to a prior commitment in Canberra, but the issues at stake could not be more important.
The case began in 2020 when I was living in Brisbane. I wrote a blog arguing that drag queens promoting gender fluid ideology to children in a Council library were dangerous role models. I stand by that assessment today.
After reviewing the public social media content of the drag queens involved, I believed parents had every right to be alerted to the messages and values being presented to children in taxpayer-funded public libraries. That blog triggered legal action against me.
I was compelled into mediation through the Queensland Human Rights Commission, a taxpayer-funded body which embraces the idea that a man can be a woman and appears comfortable with sexualised queer culture being promoted to children.
When the complainants failed to secure an apology or force me to censor my views, they took me to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
The matter finally went to trial in 2022. In 2023, I received a judgment vindicating my position.
With the assistance of taxpayer-funded lawyers from the LGBT Legal Service, the drag queens appealed.
Following a three-day appeal hearing in March 2025, I received a decision from the Queensland Civil and Administrative Appeal Tribunal 11 months later which upheld their appeal and sent the matter back for reconsideration.
While no finding of vilification has ever been made against me, the decision was a significant setback.
My legal team has now sought Judicial Review of that appeal decision in the Supreme Court. Last Wednesday’s hearing concerned an application by the drag queens to have my Judicial Review case struck out before I can fully argue it.
They are also seeking extraordinary orders that would require me to indemnify them against legal costs. In other words, they want me to pay their costs even if I ultimately win. Make that make sense.
This case highlights a fundamental problem with Australia’s anti-discrimination and anti-vilification laws.
People who possess protected attributes relating to sexuality or gender are granted special legal avenues to pursue those who question the ideology underpinning their identity claims. The result is a chilling effect on public debate and political commentary.
People who possess protected attributes relating to sexuality or gender are granted special legal avenues to pursue those who question the ideology underpinning their identity claims. The result is a chilling effect on public debate and political commentary.
These laws are increasingly being used against free speech, and they need reform if Australians are to retain the freedom to discuss matters of public importance.
Parents cannot protect children from harmful gender ideology or sexualised activist culture if people are too frightened to speak about these issues.
Yet where are the politicians willing to fix these laws? At present, there are very few.
That is one reason I have been involved in rebuilding Family First and why I am standing for the NSW Legislative Council at next year’s election. Without freedom of speech, we are not free.
One final point deserves attention.
Equality Australia, a political lobbying organisation that enjoys special tax-deductible status unavailable to most political advocacy groups, has publicly backed the drag queens pursuing this case against me.
Following my setback in the appeal tribunal, Equality Australia issued a media release welcoming the decision.
The patron of Equality Australia is Governor-General Sam Mostyn. Its co-patron is Shane Jenek, better known by the drag persona Courtney Act.
In my view, it is inappropriate for the Governor-General to lend her office and prestige to an organisation actively supporting efforts to suppress the free speech rights of Australian citizens.
In my view, it is inappropriate for the Governor-General to lend her office and prestige to an organisation actively supporting efforts to suppress the free speech rights of Australian citizens.
It is also concerning that Equality Australia continues to advocate for Australia’s child gender clinic system, where vulnerable children can be placed on pathways involving puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible medical interventions.
The Supreme Court has reserved its decision. It may be weeks or even months before I know the outcome.
What I do know is that there appears to be no end in sight to the litigation being pursued against me.
I will keep supporters updated as developments occur.
In the meantime, I will continue campaigning as hard as I can for election to the NSW Parliament, because ultimately the solution to Australia’s free speech crisis lies not with the courts but with our Parliaments.
Prove it
If it is not about the kids, then why aren’t they reading books in old folks homes? Because baby boomers and the aged are not as appealing, and have more common sense and and decorum than to let these weirdos in. Take note Kevin Rudd.
“Jack and Bill went up the hill…”
Can an ordinary cross dresser get a job reading stories to kids or does one need to be a certified transexual? My gerbil would like to know.
I gotta wonder how a tiny percentage of the population who are transexual ever got so much influence as to swing our honourably treacherous politicians into passing laws which run so fundamentally into favouring specialty rights for specialty groups, and fk the rest.
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Commenter Thompson
No that’s a bloke in a padded bra
Nowhere don’t ever forget that it was Rockefella money that commenced B- Pharma that pumped gender changing drugs into children in the 1960’s
They “are like whitewashed tombs, clean and beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all forms of filth. In that way they appear righteous to people on the outside but on the inside are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.”
Matthew 23:27
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“JEWISH INCEST – THE FILM THAT LANDED HERVE RYSSEN A PRISON SENTENCE”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/m08xTQQXQ3Vt
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They believe “God” creates both the “good” and the “evil”…that “evil” is used by “God” for “good” purpose…
Get it?
Their “God” is a 2-faced hypocrite, an imposter. A plagiarizer, counterfeiter, thief, liar, child abuser, and a mass-murderer.
THE LORD OF DECEIT.
The Ruler of Delusion.
The Mind-Fvcker Extraordinaire. They are like their father…the devil, and do it’s will on earth.
Judaizing the world.
Infiltration. Generation after generation. 2 or 3 steps forward, one or 2 steps back with the Agenda.
Like “The Borg”:
“Woe to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you snakes, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are!” Matthew 23:15
ZOG WORLD INC.
“The Jewish Origins of LGBT”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Z9ThsBAdsLpi
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“PORNOGRAPHY AND THE DELIBERATE MANIPULATION OF HUMAN SEXUALITY”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/uTvleJFNfB6Z
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“Circumcision Trauma Based Mind Control”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/CYQo7eo8QCPw
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It’s all related, just different angles of attack.
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“MRI Studies: The Brain Permanently Altered From Infant Circumcision
By Dr. Paul D. Tinari © 2008”
http://www.drmomma.org/2009/10/mri-studies-brain-permanently-altered.html
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“The baby was kept in the machine for several minutes to generate baseline data of the normal metabolic activity in the brain. This was used to compare to the data gathered during and after the surgery. Analysis of the MRI data indicated that the surgery subjected the infant to significant trauma. The greatest changes occurred in the limbic system concentrating in the amygdala and in the frontal and temporal lobes.”
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“A neurologist who saw the results postulated that the data indicated that circumcision affected most intensely the portions of the victim’s brain associated with reasoning, perception and emotions. Follow up tests on the infant one day, one week and one month after the surgery indicated that the child’s brain never returned to its baseline configuration. In other words, the evidence generated by this research indicated that the brain of the circumcised infant was permanently changed by the surgery.”
ps;
80% of the males in the USA have been subjected to this Satanic Ritual Abuse marketed and $old as “healthcare”.
Guess what? If you don’t put your thing where it don’t belong you won’t have any “trouble keeping it clean”!
(they’re (the Jews) trying to traumatize the child and get it attached to, and tuned into the wavelength of their father…the devil).
Psychopathy.
Freedom-unionist : Your grand daughter could only have seen that program on the ABC in 2024 quite possibly on Play School and the performers name was Courtney Act and the ABC have not aired a program since .
Bogan Professor I know this might come as a shock to you about that person wearing a padded bra that might just happen to be a biological sheila .
Some people saying there is no sexuality in drag queen story time and it’s harmless, why is the guy wearing a padded bra, he is conditioning small children to be approached for surgeries and hormone treatments which in some places the parents are not supposed to find out about. All these types of state-based child theft are coming from Satanism. Even the blue and white flag with the inverted triangles comes from the symbol for Saturn the “black sun” aka Satan. Satan plants his flag between the two rivers, Nile and Euphrates/Tigris. It’s in the colours of blue nile and white nile, which merge in Khartoum, Sudan. People go to the art gallery and use special art language to try to explain the meanings of a can of soup painting or a banana taped to a wall little realising it’s a tax deduction scam. But they overlook the real symbolism, which can sometimes be read in different ways. To me the so-called Israel Zion flag is Satan annexing all the land between the rivers but the people living there are not so different from people anywhere. Lots of videos of joos and cops fighting about conscription here:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=orthodox+jews+police+protest
People who hate based simply on race won’t be allowed in heaven, even though they convince themselves that’s where they’re going. In the Egyptian story when you went in your boat down the Styx river to the underworld, your heart was measured against a feather. If it was too heavy you weren’t allowed in. The feather hieroglyph is on the front of every Venetian gondola suggesting the Venetians have Egyptian ( Ptolemic ) origins. The original fake joos. The commoners now have no idea where they came from in between Ptolemy and these times, let alone before Ptolemy but the ruling elites know, because they are so inbred. Even if you read old viking sagas by Snorri Sturlusson they start off with a huge long genealogy. The commoners get churned around and mixed all over the planet, they have no roots. The plans of the elites are always to treat the commoners as cattle, never let them find out what’s really going on, keep them in a state of confusion, to totally exploit them. This is what the whole gender thing is part of. They want to have their own choice of pronoun and toilet, and the minions will come and beat us up if we don’t comply with the latest idiocy. The minions will steal your kids for $40 an hour ( less taxes ). All these people have lost touch with reality. It’s like Hitler’s Germany, they all went mad. The place ended up wrecked and lots of dead but like cattle they just kept going. The ruling elites never even got their fingers dirty.
My six year old granddaughter just told me she watched a drag Queen story time on the ABC. Make no mistake, they want our children.🕷️
It’s called INVERSION.
It’s called MINDFUCKERY.
It’s called 2+2=5.
It’s called PASSIVE AGGRESSION.
It’s called PROVOCATION. (and then claiming to be the victim when someone calls them out for it or defends themselves).
It’s called SUBVERSION.
It’s called DEGENERATION.
It’s called DEMORALIZATION.
It’s called the “Kalergi Plan”.
It’s called CHILD ABUSE.
AND THEY’LL GAS-LIGHT YOU ALL DAY LONG IF YOU NAME IT FOR WHAT IT IS!
It’s called a SATANIC JEWISH WAR AGAINST TRUTH=LIFE. The Truth that resides within the people; THAT SPIRIT; they want the people to reject IT and accept THEIR JEWISH $PIRIT OF DECEIT=EVIL instead.
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They’ll say this is all crazy. Intolerant. Paranoia. Stupid.
JEWMATRIX=GARBAGE. SHIT. MAGGOTS.
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The Spiritual War is real.
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From Orwell’s “1984”;
“Crimestop”:
“The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak. … He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions—’the [authorities] say [‘Leo Frank was an innocent victim’], ‘the [authorities] say [‘a man can be a woman’]—and trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them.”
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“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.”.
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The reason why Shelton is in the pickle he is in is because there is “no sexual storyline”, the books that are read from are chosen by the library staff to entertain children and so far as the costume is concerned ,men have been dressing up in brightly covered female attire with lots of theatrical makeup in children’s pantomimes for more than 100 years .
What I do know is that it commenced in the US in about 2015 and the reasons were to get the attention of small children by dressing up and putting makeup on because little children gave those people their full attention and listened to everything they heard .
There is no sexuality exhibited and all those working there have blue cards meaning they have been double checked that they are no threat to any children and another thing is that many biological females perform the readings and there are always parents and library staff in the vicinity looking on ..
There is no question about it whatsoever, this idea that men, dressed up, not disguised as a normal woman, but obviously a cross between a cross dressing prostitute that reveals too much and a demonic clown, that having them anywhere near children should see everyone involved hunted down and treated as exactly like pedophiles…
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Yet they want to read ‘stories’ to children in libraries (even out here in my town in Gippsland)/schools and wherever else they are allowed…AND WE LET THEM? Shame on us!
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Those sick bastards are lucky I don’t have any kids. I don’t think they should come near any of my friends kids either. Why would we allow this shocking stuff to happen in our society? Look at who is behind running it all…They just happen to have ‘six genders’ in their ‘religion’ which is SATANISM! Enough clues for you? They are deliberately having a go at our morality, being behind pornography (look who owns just about it all) and child pornography you could bet on too, so they can track, trace, exploit, blackmail…Evil is a virtue to them. Bringing you down to lower than their level of debasement is their intent, don’t ever let them.
h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0oMPv_NvBQ
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Sheldon’s fight, appears a fight against minority rule, that has grown from within ~2% of the Australian population of women and men that combined identified sexually as neither male nor female in the 2021 census.
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In the linked video, woke imaginings of pseudo scientific theory, meets male biology in dream world.
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400k insane or one logical reason why Albo can be given a $57k wage rise when creating hundreds of billions dollars in generational debt?
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exemplōrum gratiā:
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A farewell gift, or
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Because he has a mandate to govern, having won less than one third of one percent of total number one votes in the 2025 Federal Election.
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Morrison set a precedent with his secretive ministries, will Albo follow suit? 🤑🤑🤑
Sent to Family First tonight:
In regard to your gay storytime issue please see the Acts in the attachments, which are your
protections against the prosecutions Lyle is facing.
Furthermore, the gay storytimes are unlawful, in that there is no Head of Power-what any
government, state or federal, can do-in the Constitution for social engineering, which is what
the gay storytimes are.
As it goes with the Constitution: “what is not granted is denied.”
Your criticism of the storytimes is a political protest, and this prosecution against Lyle, is a political
move expressly in breach of those political rights and duties, so an offence has occurred-and on an
ongoing basis, which makes the offence even worse.
The Constitution is appliable m because I found out today, from Ian Cook, the man at the centre of
the Slug Gate scandal, that Chapter 12 of the Victorian Electoral Act was struck out by the High Court
because it was unconstitutional.
Your matter is a constitutional issue as well, and might be best tackled via the Constitution and the Acts
I have provided for you.
Furthermore, if the QCAT hearings were a single Member hearing, they are unlawful, because QCAT, and
all the other “CATs” are courts of summary jurisdiction and are unlawful, as they are Star Chambers.
Given that your matters are societal matters, a jury must decide the matter, of a potentially conflicted Member (or three) who are employees of the state government.
You will find QCAT under the banner of the QLD Department of Justice, which is incorporated, meaning it is a business:
https://cairnsnews.org/2026/06/02/sheltons-7-year-court-battle-on-right-to-criticize-lgbtq-agenda-in-legal-limbo/
This also mean that it is subject to the Consumer Law, as per the same as local councils:
https://www.mondaq.com/australia/consumer-trading-unfair-trading/394804/councils-can-be-found-guilty-of-misleading-or-deceptive-conduc
This law is as applicable to the QLD courts, QCAT, etc., as it is to your local council, so use it, and the Crimes Act and Criminal Code Act and demand all your money back too, Lyle & Co.
Something that might also help:
https://rumble.com/v6s89h1-episode-25-private-attorney-general-adriana-estevez.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a
And Konrad Lorenz’s Psychological Imprinting theory-the children subject to these storytimes may be permanently affected by this indoctrination, especially because they are not mature enough to process the information/indoctrination, and consequently always doubtful of their true sexuality.
This is a criminal act, as far as I am concerned:
https://www.simplypsychology.org/konrad-lorenz.html
Why are men allowed to be gynacologists, or birthing doctors, or kindy / pre-school teachers, I wouldn’t allow it. I wouldn’t allow the government to separate mothers from kids aged 5 or under, the government would have to take the whole package. So there’s a bunch of things I would de-progressivise.
The language is being mutilated, people started using the “poetic I” compulsively and now they don’t know the difference between she & her or he & him, they must be teaching shit in schools. Now AD becomes “Christian Era” so you can’t look up old material on the search engine. “Gender” used to mean language as in the “Latin” languages la, le, el, il gender prefixes for example el hombre, el senor or la mujer, la senora, and so forth. That was gender which now in buggered-up English means anything you want it to mean. In the same way the word sex is being homogenised to include sodomy aka buggery or anything else when it is actually about male/female ID or reproduction. The confusion gets worse when politicians get involved and try to get the pink vote. The true “intersex” is less than 1%, they can choose their gender and use the handicapped toilet.
Bot says: “About 0.15% is a commonly cited estimate for XXy chromosome”.
Now thanks to politicians and their rubbish “tax system” we see an art banana taped to a wall is “worth” $10 million. The politicians need to wake up one day and realise what they create is mostly a lot of shit.
The dark forces have taken over our country in order for this absolute nonsense to be allowed by our political parties. This country is headed for a very big wake-up call which will probably never come as our politicians & the ptb will stifle all dissent with continued threats of jail & insanely huge fines..
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