‘Billboard Chris’ has notched up another win for free speech and normality against overbearing authoritarian pressure. A Canadian activist by the name of Chris Elston, Billboard Chris travels the world to protest against child ‘gender transition’. As his billboard famously says, Children Cannot Consent to Puberty Blockers. Something not just self-evident, but now a matter of case law in Australia.
But it’s not a messsage the Long March establishment can tolerate. So Elston has been vilified, attacked and subjected to repeated lawfare.
Which is what happened in Brisbane, earlier this year.
On March 24th, a council worker ordered me to leave the town square within the first hour of my arrival on Queen Street. He lied outright, saying I was obstructing people’s movement.
I refused to leave, so he gave me an $806 ticket and called the police.
Clearly, they were dealing with a dangerous criminal. So, the same police who can’t be arsed investigating anything trivial like a burglary or home invasion rapidly responded with overwhelming force to… a billboard.
12 police arrived and over the next 45 minutes they debated what to do with me.
I was told I would go to jail if I refused to move, but I knew the council worker was lying, I hadn’t violated any of their bylaws, and the authorities at all levels of Australian government need to stop censoring people peacefully telling the truth about this child abuse, so I stood my ground.
I was further told that I am the only person they had ever tried to move on in this manner.
After taking his signs and forcibly moving him on, Billboard Chris was set free. There was no arrest. The process was instead supposed to be the punishment.
But Billboard Chris is made of sterner stuff than that.
With the help of my excellent lawyers led by John Steenhof at the Human Rights Law Alliance, we appealed. I sent the council all of my video footage leading up to the alleged infringement.
And the council duly backed down.
Last Friday, three months after the incident, Elston received official notification from Brisbane City Council that the infringement notice against him had been cancelled.
The letter, signed by Acting City Malls Operations Manager James Dorman, stated, “After reviewing the file and giving consideration to the facts and circumstances surrounding this matter, I wish to advise that Infringement Notice 8000030612317 has been withdrawn.”
The letter continued, “There is no further action required by you and this matter is now closed. Please note, any further infringements issued to you for similar offences will be reviewed on their own merits.”
“Any further infringements”? “Similar offences”?
Elston shared the letter publicly, adding, “It almost sounds like they expect me to come back. And they’re right. I’ll be back. Standing in the same spot.”
Billboard Chris’ fight against authoritarian lawfare is far from over, though. Now he has to go up against the final boss of Woke Censorship: the ‘e-Safety Commissioner’. (It’s all very ‘Committee of Public Safety’, isn’t it?)
HRLA is also representing Elston in his separate and widely watched case before the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, where he is challenging a censorship order from the eSafety Commissioner.
That case arose after Elston criticised Australian transgender activist Teddy Cook in a 2024 social media post. The commissioner claimed the post was “offensive” and pressured the platform to geoblock it in Australia under the Online Safety Act.
The hearing for that matter began on 31 March 2025. A verdict is expected in the latter half of this year.
Across Australia, authoritarian censors are facing pushback against their attempts to silence public dissent against the Groomer Industrial Complex.
Victorian MP Moira Deeming was defamed and suspended by the Liberal Party for speaking at a 2023 rally against gender ideology, later winning a defamation lawsuit.
Author Kirralie Smith faced an apprehended violence order and a separate vilification case for advocating against males in women’s sports.
Breastfeeding expert Jasmine Sussex was censored by the eSafety Commissioner in 2021 for tweeting “men cannot breastfeed,” and was subsequently taken to the Queensland Civil and Administrative for her stance.
Writer and entrepreneur Sal Grover was sued in 2023 for excluding a male from her women’s-only app Giggle.
Dr Jillian Spencer was suspended from Queensland Children’s Hospital in 2023 for questioning its gender dysphoria policies, and is now under investigation by AHPRA.
Hobart City Councillor Louise Elliot faced investigation and disciplinary action from the Anti-Discrimination Commissioner and Tasmania’s Integrity Commission for social media comments on gender identity.
Billboard Chris has won. Moira Deeming won. Sal Grover’s case will likely go all the way to the High Court. Dr Spencer is at least vindicated by the recent ruling against the Royal Children’s Hospital and its resident gender whisperer.
Lawfare can only silence good people with right on their side for so long.
