“Lying always comes before killing”, as Solzhenitsyn observed of the Stalin regime. Under the Labor administration in Queensland, it comes before, during and after, with fresh fibs to be enshrined in law this month.  

The Palaszczuk politburo already makes doctors lie on the death certificate of a healthy baby whose violent demise is arranged after 20 weeks of pregnancy: it is not infanticide, not abortion, but “stillbirth”.