The case is Baumgarten and eSafety Commissioner (Guidance and Appeals Panel) , and as dressings down go this one’s beaut. But for some reason, despite being posted three days ago, a search of Google News turns up no recent coverage in the legacy media. This is astonishing, as not only has Ms Inman Grant had her ears pinned back yet again, the evidence quoted by Justice Emilios Kyrou AO lays bare, often in an unintentionally comic manner, what happens when arrogance and entitlement are indulged with large sums of public money and taxpayer-funded conference rooms in which to hold lots and lots of meetings.
As might be gathered from her delivery, Celine Baumgartner is a feisty sort, and she didn’t take kindly to her X post being geoblocked — hidden from Australian eyes, although not the rest of the world — at the suggestion of the eSafety Commissioner’s officious gnomes, so with the backing of Free Speech Australia she went after Ms Inman Grant’s censorship operation. And do notice, as the AAT opinion makes quite clear, that it was not a lawful order duly issued and subject to enforcement, rather a back channel communication of utter gas from deep within eSafety’s bureaucratic bowels.