05/03/2026
The Greens have successfully delayed the vote on Post and Boast laws over to the next parliamentary sitting on March 10 - we have until then to tell the major parties that trespass must be removed!
Here’s a good reason why:
The Stop Roe 8 campaign was an incredible community campaign that helped to save Beeliar Wetlands from Barnett building a highway to nowhere. It also helped to elevate Labor to government in 2017.
Like me, many Labor MPs were involved in that campaign and used their profile to post about it online, in solidarity with protesters taking direct action. My sister was one of those protesters who locked onto a tree that was earmarked for destruction, and she was ultimately arrested, and charged, with trespass.
Labor MP Josh Wilson shared images of protesters locked on to trees, trespassing, and under WA Labor’s new post and boast laws he could be charged for that.
Post and Boast laws will have a chilling effect on protest because people will be worried that they might face charges even for participating in online discourse!