87 On 15 March, Mr Woff sent a WhatsApp message to Mr Johnston informing him that Mrs Deeming was attending the LWS rally ("Anti-trans rally on the front steps tomorrow, Moira attending") (Ex A36; CC:246).
88 A series of articles were published in the media about Ms Keen and other LWS rallies that were conducted in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth between 10 and 14 March 2023.
89 On 10 March, the Daily Mail Australia published an article entitled "Cops on high alert as controversial UK women's rights campaigner who has been slammed as 'transphobic' prepares to give speeches on tour of Australia" regarding Ms Keen's upcoming rally in Sydney (Ex R12). Among other things, it quoted a group called "Pride in Protest" saying that it would be protesting Ms Keen's "vile bigotry" and that "[t]his far right politics needs to be stopped". It reported that Ms Keen allegedly posed with a campaigner who celebrated Winnie Mandela's death, and had said access to abortion and contraceptives need to be rolled back for children and teenagers. It also reported that she has spoken alongside someone called Christopher Barcenas, who was said to be a member of the "Proud Boys" and present at the 6 January 2021 Capitol riots in Washington DC. It quoted Ms Keen purportedly saying, "In today's money, because being transphobic means that you say 'a woman doesn't have a penis', and probably I am transphobic". Ms Keen is also reported as saying she "does nothing to invite controversy" but she's "so influential, trouble follows her."
90 On 11 March, the Sydney LWS rally was the subject of an article in The Weekend Australian, entitled "Protesters clash at anti-trans rally in Sydney" (Ex R329). The article said, among other things, that members of trans advocacy groups chanted, "Posie Paker you can't hide, you've got Nazis on your side".
91 On 13 March, the Brisbane LWS rally was the subject of an article in The Courier Mail, called "Controversial UK activist Kellie-Jay Keen leads Brisbane protest" in which Ms Keen was reported as saying that she does not "think trans is a thing", and described it as a "dirty fetish" and a "cult" (Ex R175). The article included quotes from counter protesters who said the far right "turn out in droves to support" Ms Keen. It also reported that counter protestors detailed links Ms Keen had with "Proudboy activists, Hungarian politician and Holocaust denier Hans Lysglimt Johansen, Canadian white-supremacist Jean-François Gariépy and American talk show host Tucker Carlson."
