“A Super Progressive Movie” Banned in Australian Cinemas for Being Offensive & Mocking Leftie Politics

Parliament House cancelled a movie trailer screening for A Super Progressive Movie at the last minute, saying the content could offend some people. The trailer was for a satirical cartoon created by the team behind the popular Please Explain series.

One Nation helped fund the film and had booked the theatre weeks in advance. Party leader Pauline Hanson said many people had flown in from across Australia to attend the screening on Tuesday.

A spokesperson for the Department of Parliamentary Services told SkyNews.com.au that the cancellation followed Parliament House’s event policy.

“These considerations include the requirement … of not being likely to cause offence to any part of the Australian community,” the spokesperson said.

Hanson said she believed the cancellation was deliberately delayed until the day of the event to cause maximum inconvenience. “I strongly suspect they left it until the last minute to maximise our inconvenience,” she said.

She also argued that the decision showed a misunderstanding of free speech. “Our movie may very well offend some people. Offending people is an inevitable consequence of free speech, a fundamental principle of Australian democracy. No-one has a right to be unoffended, contrary to what the ‘super progressive left’ believes,” Hanson said.

The creators of the film, Mark Nicholson and Sebastian Peart of Stepmates Studios, described it as “a good old fashioned p***-take.” The story follows four progressives living in an insulated Melbourne bubble called the “Naarm Bubble.” They are forced to face a real Australia where Pauline Hanson is Prime Minister.

Peart explained, “It’s a hero’s journey, where these crazy lefties must venture into the real world to reclaim their ideology’s most powerful weapon: the Victimhood. We wanted to take characters that are utterly ridiculous and put them through a serious philosophical and ideological arc. It’s silly, but it has something to say. We’re really proud of it.”

Hanson criticized Parliament House for blocking the screening. “Parliament is supposed to be the seat of Australian democracy and a forum for frank and fearless speech and debates of national importance. It doesn’t exist to protect people from being offended. It’s an insult to Australians to even suggest they need to be protected from a movie trailer,” she said. She added that the move could backfire.

“This sort of censorship, based on the fear of the free speech principles Parliament House obviously doesn’t understand, only promotes the material being censored,” Hanson said. She confirmed that the trailer would be shown at a different venue. “Luckily, Parliament House is powerless to stop us from screening the trailer elsewhere and we’ve secured an alternative venue. We won’t allow Parliament’s fear of free speech to prevent us from exercising it,” she added.

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