The propagandising of the Australian outpost of the international religious political party Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) supplies the foremost contemporary demonstration of why free speech is the foundation for Australian democracy. HT never misses an opportunity to exercise its right to dissent. Its worldview is unique in Australia. Making full use of the internet, HT has brought to Australia a loathing of the concept and values of the secular ‘Western’ democratic State which, for example, it has characterised as a lizard’s hole of decadence, nakedness and depravity.