Justice in Oz’s Multicultural Police State
Nationalist activist Joel Davis granted bail after 133 days in isolation for Telegram post
Nationalist activist Joel Davis has been released on bail after spending 133 days in solitary confinement in an unsafe and dilapidated Sydney prison for an alleged Telegram post.
Mr Davis, 31, was arrested at a Bondi café on November 20 and charged with “using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend” for allegedly urging his followers to “rhetorically rape” federal MP Allegra Spender, and was refused bail on three previous occasions.
He appeared in the NSW Supreme Court on Thursday where he applied for bail again in front of Justice Natalie Adams, who found he did not present an unacceptable risk to the community, and ordered his release from Long Bay Correctional Complex.
Justice Adams imposed almost 20 bail conditions, including that Mr Davis not be in possession of a smart phone, not use social media or encrypted devices or apps, report to police three times a week, and not contact or approach Ms Spender or NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane, who the court heard he had also allegedly posted about on his Telegram channel.
Mr Davis is also banned from entering the MPs’ electorates of Wentworth and Vaucluse in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, and from going within 100 metres of their offices, and must take part in a program run by the NSW Court Chaplains’ Association.
He will be required to reside with his mother in Sydney’s west, and Justice Adams told the court she would not have released him to his previous residence in Bondi, in part due to alleged online comments about the Jewish community.
The court heard Mr Davis was now facing nine new charges laid on March 20 in relation to the post, and that if the case went to a trial before a jury in the District Court it could occur as late as the “backend of 2027”.
In handing down her decision Justice Adams noted that Mr Davis had spent more than four months in “onerous” and “unusual conditions” in custody, and that he had only had one visit since his arrest on November 20.
“Because of his suspected political affiliations he’s being kept in segregation and hasn’t been outside since the 24th of December and is only having a shower once every four days,” she told the court.
Mr Davis’s barrister Sebastian De Brennan, assisted by Sheena Swan for Paladin Lawyers, told the court it was his client’s first time in custody, that he missed the birth of his child, and that his experience behind bars had been “salutary” and made him “examine how he expressed his views”.
Mr De Brennan presented a report from a psychologist who stated he that while Mr Davis has not changed his beliefs he has reflected on how he communicates them, and assessed that Mr Davis was a man on the “precipice of change”.
Barrister Sheridan Goodwin for the Crown asked the court to refuse bail, arguing that Mr Davis “posed a risk to the emotional safety of other individuals”, and that there was an unacceptable risk he would reoffend or “incite others” to make similar social media posts.
But Justice Adams found the risk of “breaches to social cohesion” could be ameliorated by the strict conditions she imposed, and that the evidence before her suggested Mr Davis would comply with the conditions.
“The applicant holds extreme political views and had expressed them in the past, but it seems to me the applicant may have changed his mindset, he is now the father of a young baby, and is going to have to live with missing the birth for rest of his life,” she told the court.
She told the court that while Mr Davis knew he was due to become a father at the time of the alleged offending, the birth was a “pro-social factor that should help him comply with bail conditions”.
Justice Adams further found that all of his current charges, including for a belt buckle with an eagle on it in South Australia and for “hate speech” in Victoria, related to his former membership of the National Socialist Network.
“[The NSN] is now disbanded, so that platform no longer exists,” she told the court.
She also noted that in a police interview after his arrest Mr Davis had insisted that he and his former organisation were “non-violent except in self-defence”, and that he had no history of violence.
The court heard Mr Davis’s alleged post was made in response to Ms Spender calling for him and other then-members of the NSN to be jailed for a protest against Jewish lobby influence in Australian politics outside NSW Parliament on November 8.
NSW Police last week confirmed in a note to parliament that the protesters broke no laws during the rally, which they approved beforehand.
Header image: Left, right, Joel Davis at demonstrations in Melbourne and Syddney (supplied)
Justice Natalie Adams NSW Supreme CourtOn the negative side of the equation are the bail conditions imposed upon him and the fact that to refuse to accept those bail conditions would have meant rotting in that jail cell until the end of 2027, which is how long it is estimated it will take before all of his bullshit charges make it to trial.
From the Noticer:
“Justice Adams imposed almost 20 bail conditions, including that Mr Davis not be in possession of a smart phone, not use social media or encrypted devices or apps, report to police three times a week, and not contact or approach Ms Spender or NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane, who the court heard he had also posted about on his Telegram channel.
“Mr Davis is also banned from entering the MPs’ electorates of Wentworth and Vaucluse in Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, and from going within 100 metres of their offices, and must take part in a program run by the NSW Chaplains’ Association.
He will be required to reside with his mother in Sydney’s west, and Justice Adams told the court she would not have released him to his previous residence in Bondi, in part due to alleged online comments about the Jewish community.”
The only Bail condition that was appropriate was that of not contacting or posting about Ms Spender. This is the alleged victim of the alleged offence and is the only person who should be taken into consideration by the court.
Everything else that the Court has imposed is nothing less than an actual rape (not a “rhetorical” one) of the British based justice system for the purpose of deliberately silencing an opponent of the Government for an extended period of time.
This is the same thing that was done to me last year. Another bullshit charge and a trial date dragged out for months on end with bail conditions that would have silenced me whilst I waited for the system to get around to holding it.
Sign the bail conditions, or rot in jail with your presumption of innocence made into a sick farce.
I chose to rot. 110 days before the bullshit charges were dropped. Joel has already spent 133 days in jail before he even was given the option to take or refuse bail.
What would you do?
I expected that if the prosecution in my own case would have carried their nonsense to trial I would have had to wait about seven months in jail. In the worst case scenario a year. Joel’s trial is estimated to take nearly two years for the court and the prosecution to get off their corrupt and disfunctional backsides and do their jobs.
Its a disgrace. Its an outrage. Its a dysfunctional system that is less fit for purpose than the cesspool of a medieval prison than Joel was left to rot in. There can be no justice if an accused has to wait months or years in prison before he can receive it.
This situation is systemic for every accused person in the justice system, not just political prisoners like Joel or myself. On my last day in prison I shared a cell with a man who had been waiting 5 years in remand prison to go to trial on a murder charge.
Ask yourself, what if he’s innocent?
In political cases the prosecution knows it can make up any bullshit charge it likes and silence or jail the accused with impugnity. The verdict of the trial is irrelevant. The maximum jail sentence for the offense Joel is charged with is two years in jail. The maximum jail sentence for loitering for me was three months jail and for displaying “a symbol associated with Nazi ideology”, one year jail. I spent nearly four months in maximum security prison.
[2/04/2026 8:40 PM] Stephen Wells Triggers Everyone: My 15 co accused were silenced for the same amount of time, before the publicity around our cases became too politically damaging to continue the charade with and all charges were just dropped.
There has been no apology. No compensation. Just continued injustice.
I spent 4 months in jail without trial, but it could have been a year. Joel could have also faced just as much time in jail waiting for his trial as the maximum penalty for being convicted of the charge.
So what would you do if something like this happened to you? I ask you again.
Would you walk back on the things youve said to try and get out of jail as soon as possible, as Brandon Koschel did? Would you not compromise on your political beliefs but accept bail conditions that will silence you for months or years anyway, like Joel has done? Or would you sacrifice your freedom and rot in jail for as long as it took, like I did?
My personal circumstances were much easier than those of Joel or Brandon. If you believe you would follow my path, just know that when my wife begged me to take the bail conditions and come home, I nearly broke. As far as I know, neither Joel or Brandon held my views about defiance regardless of the cost, before they were jailed, either. Many people, including some friends with my political views just think I was nuts! So think twice before saying you would choose my path (even though I believe in it).
The Government’s new hate speech and hate group laws have penalties of up to 15 years in jail for bullshit. No different to the bullshit charges against Joel, Brandon, Tom Sewell, Jacob Hersant, Jim Roberts, myself or any other political dissident jailed for their views in this country over the last 5 years.
What is the best way to deal with the injustice?
Some argue that get out of jail at any cost is the best way to respond. That coerced confessions and retractions are meaningless and that its tactically better to just lie and tell our enemies what they want to hear. Get out of jail. Go home. See your loved ones again. You achieve nothing behind bars.
I argue for absolute sacrifice and defiance regardless of the cost. The smaller the thing the enemy wants from me and the greater the punishment for defying them, the more defiant I want to become. Easy to say. Potentially soul crushing to follow through with.
Others argue somewhere in between. A balance between pragmatism and idealism. Weigh up the pros and cons in each situation and then decide.
Whatever path you think you will choose, dont judge others for their choice. Until you are sitting in a cell yourself with your loved ones outside, you just dont know how it will affect you. Evaluate your choices now though, before you are arrested for some bullshit thing you might say one day. Because more and more people are going to be arrested on bullshit charges in the years to come and the penalties are only going to get harsher. Best to at least try and decide how you want to respond before hand.
Today I read about a female American police officer named Shauni Kerkhoff, who is alleged to have hidden a pipe bomb on Jan6. The authorities claim this has not been proven. Aside from her ridiculous first name, I naturally wondered right away what the origin of her last name is, since it sounds so familiar. https://x.com/barnes_law/status/2039386331466379428
This illustrates the close relationship between Germanic languages. The name is Dutch, and is spelled “Kirch(en)hof” in German, “Kierkegaard” in Scandinavian languages, and “Churchgarden” in English. Although a “hof” doesn’t necessarily have to be a garden. There’s also the ‘Kasernenhof’ (barracks courtyard) or the “Gefängnishof” (prison courtyard).