Given that since 2014 when politics overruled the judiciary in Julian Knight’s case, so denying his judicial rights to parole, after decade of ‘Victorian’ politics reporting to their political masters in the biased media, The Knighthood considers it’s past time to see Mr Knight enter the political scene.
The media has brought it on and the political beast has been stirred. Read our retort by clicking our image (an internal link within this website):
The Knighthood’s Political Campaign Update, Friday 26th September 2025:
- Political Prisoner Julian Knight is mandatorily transported from (maximum security private prison) Port Phillip Prison, Melbourne (2005-2025) intrastate by Corrections Victoria to (medium security Victorian government-controlled) Loddon Prison, situated on the outskirts of the Victorian regional town of Castlemaine.
The Knighthood’s Political Campaign Update, Thursday 9th October 2025:
- Political Prisoner Julian Knight, within Loddon Prison, is forcibly transferred to solitary confinement without explanation under the authority of Corrections Victoria.
The Knighthood’s Political Campaign Update, Saturday 11th October 2025:
- The Knighthood arranged an extra-ordinary meeting to discuss the very political nature of Julian Knight’s solitary confinement at Loddon Prison in Castlemaine.
Items discussed:
(1) Mr Knight has long served out his criminal judicial sentence (1987-2014). Since May 2014 he has no longer been a criminal prisoner of the Victorian Judiciary, but a political prisoner of the Victorian Legislature – a flagrant breach of the Constitution of Australia and an ad hominem Act of Indefinite Detention by Victorian politicians;
(2) Mr Knight whilst incarcerated for decades has been a model prisoner, and attained two university degrees. He would also have attained a masters degree, had Corrections Victoria not removed his computer and denied his access to the Internet and to tertiary study;
(3) Mr Knight continues to be an ongoing incarcerated political prisoner of the Victorian Government (see unelected Premier Denis Napthine’s hate Act of 2014 attached);
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(4) For some years Mr Knight has been downgraded from ‘maximum security’ risk status to ‘medium security’ risk status, having won his legal appeal against Corrections Victoria to achieve this victory in The Supreme Court of Victoria;
(5) Despite Mr Knight’s downgrading to ‘medium security’ risk status, Corrections Victoria for years has continued to incarcerate Mr Knight in ‘maximum security’ Port Phillip Prison;
(6) In September 2025, Mr Knight whilst pending transfer to Loddon Prison, and still incarcerated at Port Phillip Prison, had his cell forcibly ransacked and searched over by G4S prison staff trying to find contraband or any excuse not to have him transferred to medium security Loddon Prison. Nothing was found or planted by the G4S staff.
(7) During September 2025, whilst Mr Knight was pending transfer to Loddon Prison, and still incarcerated at Port Phillip Prison, G4S prison staff leaked to the mainstream media (Melbourne Herald Sun) about his pending transfer to Loddon Prison. The media has already previously covered his legal cases against Corrections Victoria to successfully have his security rating downgraded;
(8) Despite Mr Knight’s downgrading on Friday 26th September 2025 was finally transferred from privately-run Port Phillip Prison to government-run medium security Loddon Prison, due to the Victorian Government’s recent political decision to shut down privately run prisons across Victoria;
(9) One of our members in communication with Julian Knight, on Monday 30 September 2025 wrote a test email to Julian Knight after his transfer to Loddon Prison the Friday prior. The prison had previously explained that, unlike Port Phillip Prison which provides a communal email kiosk for prisoners to use to exchange emails with chosen outside persons (family, friends, etc) instead at Loddon Prison those same emails are instead printed off by Loddon prison staff and handed manually to the respective prisoner. However, the first test email of 30th September despite being short and simply casual and friendly was intercepted by Loddon’s Prisoner Intelligence Unity (PIU) and not passed on Julian Knight and containing the following rebuff response:
“Message you sent to Julian Knight was blocked by the prison screening procedure. If you have issue with this please write a letter addressed to the Head of Security with the prisoners name, prison number, your name and the time and date of the rejected message, with some detail of content. Please include your address and contact details.”
(10) Within just two weeks of arriving at Loddon Prison, Mr Knight on Thursday 9th October 2025 was forcibly placed into solitary confinement within Loddon Prison without justification. The question is why? Surely he has done nothing wrong and would be keen to out of Port Phillip and an change is always good. Has he been threatened by other inmates perhaps? No statement was made by Corrections Victoria;
(11) After nearly four decades, old tired media personalities in Victoria maintain a public witch hunt campaign against Julian Knight using their various media outlets – typically NewsCorp (Herald Sun), Nine Entertainment (The Age newspaper) and Kerry Stokes Seven West Media (TV Channel 7). So despite Julian Knight being keen to keep a low profile ad do the right think, all the media is doing is unnecessarily inflaming the situation with spin, fake news and misinformation. Such can only stir up public angst and of course prisoners read the news right? That is even if the reported commentary by Silvester and other media types like TV Channel 7 is NOT right dudes! Columnist John Silvester was bor in 1956, so in 2025 Silvester is aged 69. So he’s an elder in the media, and so should be wiser that the whippersnapper youngsters that were in nappies, if even born, when Hoddle street happened. Channel 7 nightly news presenter Peter Mitchell born 1960, is aged 65 so he is in the same league.
(12) Mr Knight throughout his incarceration has done nothing wrong.
At this online meeting, it was agreed by The Knighthood that it was past time to take this matter on a more political basis and in doing so the following was resolved to:
(A) Approach selected political parties of Australia on the matters of:
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- Julian Knight’s political prisoner status was decreed by an Act of the Victorian Legislature in 2014, so overruling (illegally) the Victorian Judiciary
- The issue of ‘political prisoners’ held in incarceration
- The publicly perceived corrupt prison parole process, particularly of that in the State of Victoria
- Ongoing prison public accountability problems and scandals
- The ongoing poor performance of the Victorian Government department for prisons ‘Corrections Victoria’
- The issue of the systemic biased media targeting of political prisoner Julian Knight for now approaching 40 years since 1987.
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(B) To continue to update this website;
(C) To publish selected email quotes from Julian Knight to this website.
Other matters were raised and discussed, however the meeting resolved to keep those other matters confidential.
The vote was carried unanimously.
The Knighthood’s Political Campaign Update, Tuesday 14th October 2025:
Certain members of The Knighthood followed up the previous meeting.
One particular Australian political party was contacted this day by a certain member of The Knighthood and the issue discussed and political support sought.
The political party is Australia First Party and there has been an initial expression of willing support to consider injustice matters of targeted political prisoners in Australia such as Julian Knight to be tackled by way of public discourse…
“Australia First Party takes an interest in Julian Knight’s political imprisonment by parliament. This is a serious question that could extend to any Australian citizen. If politicians can overrule the Judiciary on sentencing whenever they choose, to imprison any Australian by an Act of Parliament crafted for that person alone and bearing his very name and then effectively gaoling him for life – we all live in a dangerous dictatorship. We should not be blinded by Mr. Knight’s original crime and to grant parliament this power.”
~ Dr Jim Saleam, President of Australia First Party, October 2025.
The Knighthood is encouraged by this political interest in Julian Knight’s case as a political prisoner of the Victorian Government/Parliament since 2014.
However, our ‘Landmark Legal Question’ to the High Court of Australia:
How can the High Court of Australia in Knight’s appeal 2017 case [Knight v Victoria – [2017] HCA 29 – 261 CLR 306] be so inconsistent?
On the one hand in 2017, it facilitates the indefinite detention of Julian Knight by the Victorian Government’s/Parliament’s unConstitutional over-reach ‘ad hominem’ legislation and so breach of the Australian Constitution’s ‘Separation of Powers’ principle (that the Legislature nor Executive nor Judiciary can over-rule each other’s laws); yet on the other hand, just six years later in 2023, contradictorily reject the lawfulness of ‘indefinite detention’ policy/legislation by the (Executive) the Australia Government? [NZYQ v. Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs & Anor, Case No. S28/2023]
Clearly the High Court has erred in Knight’s case. We consider the High Court of Australia to have descended to being a political malleable instrument of the incumbent Australian federal government’s political leaning of the day, and thus corruptible and indeed corrupted. It starts from how their make up is appointed – politically. High Court of Australia judges are appointed by the Governor-General, acting on the advice of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. The Attorney-General typically recommends a candidate, after consulting with the attorneys-general of the states and territories.
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was right:
In Knight’s appeal case, his legal argument was that politicians (the Legislature in Victoria) had overruled the Judiciary (the Supreme Court of Victoria) targeting only Knight’s sentencing. Politicians played judge and jury. Indeed, Dr Saleam is correct – in Australia, this hypocrisy reveals from the highest court of our Australian nation that:
“we all live in a dangerous dictatorship. We should not be blinded by Mr. Knight’s original crime and to grant parliament this power.”
The Knighthood’s Political Campaign Update, Thursday 14th October 2025:
Our member’s contact with Australia First Party has requested and applied for Julian Knight to be made an honourary member of Australia First Party, in principle as an Australian political prisoner of government.
This is yet to be ratified by the party’s leadership. A public statement is set to be made in due course on the party’s public website.
So, The Knighthood in committed support for Julian Knight, him being a political prisoner of the Victorian Government, has politically aligned itself to take this matter to a more political basis and in doing so is acting in this matter (and related Australian prison matters) as follows:
(1) Successfully established ideological and political support for Julian Knight’s political prisoner condition from the Australia First Party;
(2) Continue to liaise with the Australia First Party in this regard – on this website, and to contribute articles also on the Australia First Party’s public website: https://australiafirstparty.net/
More updates are to follow.
