NSW Premier’s Staff Face Arrest for Refusing to Front Inquiry Into Hate Speech Laws
NSW Premier Minns’ staffers have refused to appear before the parliamentary inquiry examining hate speech laws introduced in response to the Dural caravan bomb hoax. “The inquiry has agreed to issue arrest warrants” to get them to appear, according to MLC John Ruddick.
Chris Minns has triggered a nuclear response from the panel looking into his hasty hate speech legislation.
The New South Wales Labor Premier is allegedly at the forefront of attempts to stop the Rod Roberts (IND) inquiry and is refusing to allow staff to participate.
As a result, “the inquiry has agreed to issue arrest warrants” just to get Labor staffers to show up, according to NSW Libertarian John Ruddick.
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A foolish error. Whole sorry saga could’ve been avoided if the premier & police minister had simply turned up themselves & not put their staff through this.
All along Labor has tried to stonewall, delay & ridicule this important inquiry.
Free speech is paramount. The… https://t.co/dIqH6z6gtq
— John Ruddick MLC (@JohnRuddick2) June 20, 2025
Inquiry Issues Arrest Warrants
The next step is getting the President of the Legislative Council, the Hon Ben Franklin, to agree, wrote Ruddick, in an update on X.
“If he does agree, then he needs to convince a Supreme Court justice.
“Assuming it gets to that point, the staffers will be arrested and forced to attend the inquiry.
“They are not afforded the right to remain silent.”
He then described the Premier’s continuing runarounds and dismissals of the inquiry as a “foolish error.”
This “whole sorry saga could’ve been avoided if the premier and police minister had simply turned up themselves and not put their staff through this.”
To this, Ruddick asserted,
“Free speech is paramount.
“The people of NSW have been lumbered with more free speech restrictions.”
This was because Minns overreacted to what was falsely portrayed as an act of Jew-hating “domestic terrorism,” Ruddick stated.
“Minns was conned by what the AFP had declared a ‘criminal con job.’
“That process needs scrutiny. These bad laws must be reversed.”
Minns Pours Scorn on Roberts and Ruddick
Minns only has himself to blame for the dramatic escalation.
In a bizarre take, Minns accused the accountability inquiry of being “a politically motivated attempt to stop young people from running for parliament.”
The Premier also implied that legislative council members, Roberts and Ruddick, were tinfoil nut-jobs “playing games with people’s lives.”
The optics are as bad as a picnic in a pool filled with piranhas.
It seems Minns would only be stonewalling this inquiry into his hasty “hate speech legislation” if there was something to cover up.
Who’s advising the Premier to ridicule this investigation for, by and on behalf of the people of NSW?
Hasty Hate-Speech Cover Up?
Chris Minns appears to have no issue with hasty legislation that hinders core civil liberties, based on dubious reasoning.
If the NSW Labor Premier wins, and stops an accountability inquiry claiming that doing so is in the interests of the people of NSW, then NSW is stuffed.
Minns jumped headfirst into hate speech legislation, made an error of judgment, and now refuses to admit the freedom-killing fault.
He then seemingly gaslights those on the inquiry, in an apparent attempt to manipulate others into not asking or answering questions.
All with the seeming intent to cover up his maladministration of the judiciary with misdirection.
How much more proof do Aussies need that the Australian Labor Party only serves the self-interests of the Australian Labor Party, and not in the interest of the Australian people?
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Originally published at Caldron Pool. Image via Phil Desveaux/Wikimedia Commons.
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An awful premier. Wolf in sheep’s clothing. Not to be trusted but I reckon we are stuck with him forever as the Libs are useless and offer no alternative. Good on John Ruddick and go the minor parties💪
Great article Rod. Love the line, “Picnic pool filled with piranhas”