
We did it. We took all your 81,000+ signatures to Parliament House and we got Canberra's attention.
This morning the opposition immigration spokesperson, Shayne Neumann, accepted by petition. He has supported this campaign from the very beginning, formally writing to David Coleman the day after this petition went online.
Outside Parliament House, I stood alongside Prof. Marcia Langton AM, Labor MPs Ged Kearney, Andrew Leigh, Andrew Giles, and Senator Claire Moore, as well as Cheryl Axleby from Change the Record, Melanie Poole from National Association of Community Legal Centres, Ivan Hinton-Teoh from just.equal, and people from the community who had signed this petition.
This is what it takes to stand up to violent extremism: a coalition of solidarity. I am so grateful for their support. It reminds me of what this country truly is, and not what a tiny minority of extremists wish it to be.
Back inside Parliament House, we met with Shadow Attorney General and Shadow Minister for National Security, the Hon Mark Dreyfus QC. He shared our grave concerns for the state of extremist discourse in this country.
I couldn't have done this without your support - your signatures, your shares, your emails and phone calls to David Coleman. Thank you all.
This is not over, though. David Coleman is yet to act. We need a decision from the minister, and soon. Gavin McInnes' rhetoric of violent extremism has no place in this country. The longer McInnes visa remains approved, the longer it appears like a tacit approval of what McInnes stands for.
We won't stop until McInnes visa is cancelled, but today we can celebrate this success: your voices were heard. It was my honour to take them to our nation's capital. Your support made all of this possible.
Nyadol Nyuon.
PS: check out this ABC interview I did from the press gallery today.