Part 1 traced how Anthony Albanese built an unelected censorship apparatus for Jillian Segal without a vote, a bill or a debate, while the Coalition demanded more. It ended with a question polite Australia refuses to ask. Today, the answer. Andrew Brown reports.
The architecture would be scandal enough on paper. It did not stay there. Segal took an oath at a Royal Commission.
Under oath, the mask came off
Segal conceded regulators had found little inaccuracy in ABC and SBS reporting on Israel and Gaza. The journalism was true. Her objection was that the truth made Israel look bad. Her remedy was another oversight body and more positive stories about the amazing startup nation.
A taxpayer funded official told a Royal Commission, under oath, that accurate reporting is a problem the state should fix with pressure for flattering coverage.
Show the starving children of Gaza if you insist, then cut to a cheerful Israeli tech segment for balance. There are countries where officials talk like that. None of them are democracies. And the Prime Minister kept her in office anyway.
Then she reached for the children
University students, Segal observed, are relatively fixed in their ideas. Younger children are more open. Education, she said, is a tool for building ideas, cohesion and culture.
An advocate surveyed the population, identified the audience least capable of arguing back, and proposed to begin there.
She unveiled a National Centre for Education Against Antisemitism to train government, business and police at scale and capture the hearts and minds of Australians. Her phrase. The Gonski taskforce runs from early childhood to university. Something in the curriculum, Segal mused, might have to come out.
Jewish history and the Holocaust belong in every classroom. So do Islamophobia, anti Palestinian racism, the frontier massacres and the stolen generations.
A curriculum organised around one contested political definition does not teach children to think. It teaches them which conclusions are safe. Australians have a name for a state program built to capture the hearts and minds of other people’s children. It is not education.
The $50,000 question
Twelve days before Segal’s appointment, Henroth Investments, directed by her husband, gave $50,000 to Advance Australia. The same Advance that torched the Indigenous Voice for being too much power for one group of Australians.
Jillian Segal (centre) with husband John Roth (right)
Segal denies involvement. The Klaxon documented the couple’s record of joint donations, down to a photograph beside a plaque naming both as donors.
Perhaps she knew nothing of a $50,000 gift from her own household’s company on the eve of her elevation. Any other appointment, this donation triggers an inquiry by Friday. This one drew a shrug. Albanese is not neutral. He benefits from the question never being asked.
The answer
Now the question you carried overnight. Why one form of racism and not the others?
In 1991, the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody delivered 339 recommendations. Both parties let them rot for three decades while the death toll passed 590 First Nations people. No envoy. No machinery.
In 2025, Segal delivered 49 actions. The Commonwealth adopted every one within months, put her in charge, and stood a $130 million Royal Commission behind her. Muslim Australians, mosques attacked, got an envoy for show.
Palestinian Australians burying entire families got lectures about tone.
So ask the questions underneath. Which cause has a professional, funded, decades old lobby behind it, and which buried its peak body by act of Parliament? Which flatters the US alliance, and which indicts the Crown? Which form of justice costs the Treasury nothing, and which costs it the continent?
And that lobby did not merely ask. After October 2023, it campaigned, through ECAJ, AIJAC and the Murdoch press behind them, and Anthony Albanese capitulated.
Then he kept capitulating.
He adopted the plan entire. He kept Segal in office after her testimony. He will not touch the donation. For this Prime Minister, capitulation is not a moment. It is a method.
Follow those questions to the end and you reach the ugliest truth in Australian public life. This state does not fight racism. It prices it. The cheap kind gets a ministry. The expensive kind gets an anniversary. That hierarchy of harm is now official Commonwealth policy. Nobody voted for it. Nobody was asked. It was imposed. And Segal is that policy made flesh.
The lobby’s president turned the nation’s umpire.
Minns, the enforcer
The state tier belongs to Chris Minns. His government rammed hate speech and protest laws through Parliament, with Coalition votes, while the Dural caravan was waved at a frightened public. Police then established the plot was a fabricated criminal con. A premier who legislates on a hoax and keeps the laws when it collapses has told you what they were for.
Segal’s definition, Minns’s truncheon, opposition applause. A pincer on political expression, built in eighteen months, and not one voter asked.
Tear it out
This is Australia in 2026. Speech graded in Canberra. Protest policed in Sydney. Children next. An open society has one rule that cannot bend. No unelected hand on the levers of speech. Segal’s office breaks it by existing.
Albanese built this office, hid its costs, ignored the donation on its doorstep and shielded its occupant. Every excess is his. So is the precedent. The apparatus does not dissolve when Segal departs. It sits waiting for the next government, and the Coalition is not planning to dismantle it. It is waiting for the keys.
Chris Minns’ stormtroopers. Guns for graffiti, silence for the dead
End Segal’s appointment. Abolish the office.
Repeal the NSW laws passed on a hoax. Open a parliamentary inquiry into its creation, its costs and its occupant’s household donations. Replace the wreckage with one national rights framework protecting every Australian from every form of racial and religious hatred, equally.
No envoys. No favourites. No exceptions.
So make it the question of the next election. Put it to every candidate, of every party, at every doorstop, until they answer. Will you vote to abolish the Segal State? Watch who squirms. Vote accordingly.
Australia needs protection from racism.
All of it, for all of us, or it is not protection. It is patronage. And Australia does not need the Segal State.
Andrew Brown is a Sydney businessman in the health products sector, former Deputy Mayor of Mosman and Palestine peace activist