Federal MP Linda Burney has filed an application for an AVO against social media user McKenzie Raymond with all the evidence pointing to it being a frivolous and vexatious attempt to silence McKenzie Raymond.
Linda Burney claims she feels threatened because McKenzie Raymond has posted online how much she earns as an MP and how many houses she owns which are freely available online on the Parliamentary Registrar of assets.
Ms Burney says she has made several complaints to the NSW Police and Federal Police but obviously there has been no crime committed as they have not charged McKenzie Raymond which is consistent with the lack of evidence in the AVO application below.
McKenzie Raymond claims Linda Burney’s daughter trolls people online, and McKenzie has been exposing her trolling and the daughter filed a vexatious AVO application on her in January 2022. Linda Burney was named as a “protected person” and showed up to court at 2 mentions for the matter. At the final hearing in June 2022 Linda Burney’s daughter did not show up to the hearing and it was dismissed.
McKenzie Raymond had a lawyer for the matter, and she says her lawyer claims she was harassed via SMS and online by Linda Burney’s daughter and has since filed for an AVO against Linda Burney’s daughter.
It seems Linda Burney filed her AVO because her daughter can’t file another AVO within a certain time period so Linda applied for one with her daughter as a “protected person” to get around it.
All the AVO does is complain about McKenzie discussing publicly available knowledge with no actual evidence of any wrongdoing by McKenzie Raymond.
I recorded an interview (15/10/22) with McKenzie Raymond as per below and a copy of the AVO application is below the video.
Below is the AVO filed by Linda Burney:
Has Linda Burney committed a crime by lying in her AVO application?
On page one above, it says that if the applicant makes a statement that they know is false it is punishable by up to 12 months in jail or a $1,100 fine or both.
On page 2 above, it says: 6. Has there ever been a court case or legal proceedings involving you and the defendant? Linda Burney answers “No”.
McKenzie Raymond says that is not true as Linda Burney was involved in her daughter’s AVO application against her a few months ago as a “protected person”. Ms Raymond says Linda Burney even showed up to court twice this year for her daughter’s AVO application against her.
The matter is set down for a mention at the Newtown Court House at 9.30am on Monday the 17th of October 2022 as per the below screenshot for the NSW Courts website: (They have spelt McKenzie wrong below)
I emailed Linda Burney at her 2 publicly listed email addresses, sent her a message on Twitter and asked her for a response. At this point, she has not responded.
There is a long list of Liberal and National MPs who have in recent times tried to silence social media users by abusing the law and it looks like the Labor Party is heading down the same path. It’s an issue that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party should look at.
Update (17/10/22): Federal MP Linda Burney withdraws “vexatious” AVO application against social media user. (Click here to read more)
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