C&P:
'"In April this year, Bragg was booked to play at a venue that I managed 30 years, and I had worked with him then. I had attended the Perth Let Women Speak event and it was a success but by the time Bragg arrived here, the Melbourne event had happened and we were all still in shock. It was a sunny Sunday afternoon when I saw a man walking ahead of me who looked familiar. I noticed his very pale white legs, and thought that's gotta be him, as only a man who works at night could show such a deficiency in Vitamin D. So I caught up with him and introduced myself. He seemed pleased to be recognised, as here in (city in Western Australia) we're very laid back and tend not to fawn over celebrities.
Anyhoo, I then mentioned that I was one of those women he was calling a Nazi and I didn't appreciate the danger and risk he was putting us in by perpetrating the lie that we were affiliated with them. I explained that my grandfather was in the British Intelligence Corp in WW2 and was involved with annexing Iceland and liaising with high ranking German prisoners. His second wife witnessed Kristallnacht and was involved in the resistance in Denmark. That it was her friend Victor Borg who came to her aid when my grandfather died and to recklessly use what those men did in Melbourne as a way to silence us was deeply offensive. He said that we shouldn't have invited them. I said we hadn't. He said we should denounce them. I replied so should you.
I then added that I believe he really doesn't understand what he's doing by endorsing an ideology that serves very few. He waffled on about a marginalised community needing rights. I countered it by replying women need support services that are sex specific not gender and if these continue to be eroded there will be a backlash. That I had already noticed it and was concerned about the trans people I know feeling the brunt of it, and by default the LGB too. He referred to his wife, a life long feminist who "doesn't see it as a problem". And I said good for her but she can't speak for all of us. And then he said his mate Julie (Bindel) agrees too and that "she doesn't like Kellie Jay Keen either" I just raised my eyebrows. He obviously hadn't spoken to her for a while.
This allowed me to point out that three English people expecting a country like Australia to accept a belief system is very reminiscent of colonisation. The notion that you can change sex is something that does not exist in the Noongar country we're standing on. The Noongar women I know are really worried about their youth and are too scared to speak up. This was the first time he showed any semblance of confusion in his position. It's not an uncommon reaction I've had. I can't speak for these women but I can relate to others what I've been told and gender identity is just a new variant of a poison blanket to these communities that have struggled to survive.
Anyway, at that point he brought us back to KJK and somehow made her the reason why these women are being silenced. This showed me that not only does he not understand our culture, which is no surprise, he has an unhealthy obsession with KJK. He showed me screenshots of the neo nazis that were meant to prove they were affiliated with Let Women Speak. I laughed. The audio of the leader had been dropped the day before and I said he needed to update his intel. He pointy jabbed the phone at me, I laughed again and told him in 5 years he'll remember this moment and when he does I expect an apology. I told him to remember my name and remember that Joan from X gave you the heads up but you ignored her and all the other women speaking. I wished him a pleasant stay in my hometown and walked away.
As I crossed the road he called out my name, I turned and he was sieg heiling me with his finger under his nose and goose stepping. I stood and watched him for a few moments, shook my head and walked away."'