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Articles by Gavin Silbert
The Need to Protect Freedom of Expression
There is no affirmative right to free expression or peaceful assembly. Aug 26 2025 7 mins The Coalition is facing the same malaise that has struck establishment Right parties across the West. Aug 26 2025 22 mins Religious belief is an unavoidable, predictable yet nebulous outcome of the thinking that underlies toolmaking. Aug 26 2025 23 mins Freedom of expression is the most fundamental essential of a free and democratic society.
Gobbo, Mokbel and the Cops
Has the Victorian Bar now joined the Labor government and VicPol in the most egregious cover-up in Victorian legal history?
Gobbo, Mokbel and the Cops
Transparency International ranks Australia tenth in its global corruption index.
Victorian Justice: The Case of ‘Hilary Maloney’
Reproduced here without editing or comment, Judge Nola Karapanagiotidis' sentencing of a biological man convicted of heinous offences against 'her' own daughter Jan 17 2025 42 mins Australians are telling pollsters we are very happy with Australia Day just as it is. it's a majority that doesn't include the sport's woke wallahs Jan 17 2025 9 mins There is much to be optimistic about 2025.
Anticipating the Trump Revolution
Central to Trump's agenda is the fundamental question: are decisions best made by 'experts', or by those who are most affected? Jan 08 2025 14 mins Young lawyers are led to believe courts are fair and dispense untainted justice. There is no reason to think this applies in Victoria Jan 07 2025 15 mins Stupendous salaries buy only a B-minus in our deep-dive appraisal of the office and its nearly all-female senior team Jan 06 2025 18 mins Donald Trump’s resume is quite remarkable.
The Vanishing Rule of Law in Victoria
Young lawyers are led to believe courts are fair and dispense untainted justice.
The Grotesque Corruption of Australian Literary Prizes
Putting left-wing identitarians in charge of literary prizes is a good way to turn them into cesspools of cronyism and bias Jan 09 2025 14 mins Central to Trump's agenda is the fundamental question: are decisions best made by 'experts', or by those who are most affected? Jan 08 2025 14 mins Young lawyers are led to believe courts are fair and dispense untainted justice.
The AHRC’s Latest Disgrace
The agency that hounded Bill Leak into an early grave isn't fussed by its staffers' support for Hamas Oct 03 2024 19 mins The Vance-Walz debate prompts a column that's more of a steaming pile Oct 03 2024 3 mins Our shambling excuse for a government is intent on suppressing opinions, even facts, it doesn't like Oct 03 2024 9 mins The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is such a blight that the Coalition needs to abolish it the minute it gains office.
Academic Auto-da-fé
To grasp our cultural crisis, we must examine our institutions, especially universities. Sep 30 2024 11 mins Norway’s pride in its democracy was tainted by the May recognition of Palestine Sep 30 2024 0 mins Greens and fellow travellers denounce Israel as if its actions were totally unprovoked Sep 30 2024 10 mins Christopher Dawson, the English historian and cultural critic, warned that “a society which has lost its faith becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture”.
Anti-Semitism in the Antipodes
Greens and fellow travellers denounce Israel as if its actions were totally unprovoked Sep 30 2024 10 mins Freedom of speech is illusory if we are all expected to hold, the same opinion Sep 30 2024 15 mins As a friend described him, with Lucien Bodard, 'nothing is correct but everything is true' Sep 30 2024 11 mins The appearance of anti-Semitism in Australia, a country remarkable for its absence of anti-Semitism, raises several questions.
The rise and fall of Robodebt: FLASHBACK 2019 Original
The Albanese Government has announced a royal commission into the Coalition's unlawful and lethal Robodebt scheme. In this article from 2019, Gavin Silbert QC analysed the Robodebt scheme prior to the Morrison Government scrapping it. THE DECISION of the Federal Court on 27 November declaring the Robodebt scheme to be invalid raises more questions than it answers.
The rise and fall of Robodebt
After many months of inflicting suffering on welfare recipients, Centrelink is now having to answer for its Robodebt scheme, writes Gavin Silbert QC. THE DECISION of the Federal Court on 27 November declaring the Robodebt scheme to be invalid raises more questions than it answers. Only as recently as March this year, Centrelink was threatening to charge daily compounding interest, garnishee wages and issue stop orders preventing people from leaving the country.
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