Transgender far-left bomber in Melbourne avoids jail. By Erin Pearson in The Age.
Malith Shamera Fernando, 25, of Blackburn, faced Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, where it was revealed she had visited the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on the first day of the defence exhibition to scope out the facility before returning the following day to plant an explosive device on September 12, 2024. Fernando has pleaded guilty to all charges.
The court heard that Fernando, an engineer, attended the exhibition centre with a legitimate ticket and visited the area for 40 minutes. The following day she arrived at 12.47pm, scanned her ticket and walked into the male toilets.
Shortly before 1.15pm, a homemade incendiary device detonated in the middle toilet cubicle, causing a small fire, which self-extinguished.
Two attendees were in other toilet cubicles at the time of the explosion. The damage bill associated with the targeted attack was $4600.
A search of Fernando’s home uncovered cannabis, ketamine and 28 other homemade incendiary devices in a bag at the end of her bed and in a cardboard box in her bathroom.
Protest ideology, including a post with the words “At free Palestine Melbourne, and disrupt Melbourne” attached, was found on a laptop at the property.
The prosecution called for jail time, naturally, for making and deploying a bomb. But no:
Malith Shamera Fernando was given a Community Corrections Order and told to pay $4,600 in compensation.
Meanwhile, the punishment for tweeting about transgender is much, much larger:
An Australian women’s rights campaigner has been ordered to pay $95,000 in fines and make an apology after a court ruled she vilified two biological male soccer players who claim to be “transgender” females.
Kirralie Smith was taken to court by Riley Dennis and Stephanie Blanch over a series of social media posts about males in women’s sport, and in August NSW Local Court Deputy Chief Magistrate Sharon Freund found she unlawfully vilified both men by calling them men.
The real danger to society
Speaking of obvious political bias and censorship masquerading as something else the new ban on social media for U16s bans X (aka Twitter), but not BlueSky (the left wing version of X).