Women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen sues Australian MPs for defamation after she was attacked at a rally following their condemnation of her tour

• Ms Keen seeks written apology, pay compensation, and cover of her legal costs

Women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen is suing Australian MPs for defamation after she was attacked at a rally where she was doused in tomato sauce and pelted with eggs. 

The mother-of-four from Wiltshire has sent a legal letter to Victorian Liberal’s leadership team with a 28-day deadline to issue a written apology, pay compensation, and cover her legal costs or face court action. 

Ms Keen has accused leader of the opposition John Pesutto, deputy Matt Bach, and upper house leader Georgie Crozier of making ‘grossly misconceived, wilfully vexatious, and wretchedly false’ claims against her. 

The mother, who also goes by the name Posie Parker, has been taking part in a Let Women Speak world tour with rallies in Australia and New Zealand. 

The defamation threat is in relation to expelled Liberal Party MP Moira Deeming who appeared at a Let Women Speak event in Melbourne in March where black-clad masked neo-Nazis invaded Ms Keen’s rally. 

Women’s rights campaigner Kellie-Jay Keen (pictured last month in London) is suing Australian MPs for defamation after she was attacked at a rally where she was doused in tomato sauce and pelted with eggs

Ms Keen has accused leader of the opposition John Pesutto, (left) deputy Matt Bach, (centre) and upper house leader Georgie Crozier (right) of making ‘grossly misconceived, wilfully vexatious, and wretchedly false’ claims against her

Ms Deeming had previously been suspended for nine months for attending the rally  but was later expelled by 19 votes to 11. 

In the motion, she was accused of ‘organising, promoting and attending a rally where Kellie-Jay Keen (also known as Posie Parker), was the principal speaker, in circumstances where Ms Keen was known to be publicly associated with far right-wing extremist groups including neo-Nazi activists.’ 

Ms Keen has constantly denied that she knew anything about the neo-Nazi group who made sickening Hitler salutes.

Speaking exclusively to MailOnline in March, Ms Keen said: ‘They are still calling me a Nazi because these men turned up at my event at Melbourne.

‘They were nothing to do with me, they were not invited.

‘The whole time I feel like being treated like an actual Nazi. I don’t think the Nazis were particularly well-known for women’s rights.

‘Since I flew out here I have been on every news channel and paper.

‘The politicians seem to have it all sewn up here. It is all about power. I’ve been told there are lots of them who don’t even believe any of the stuff they are saying – they just say it for power.’

Kellie-Jay Keen was doused with tomato juice at her Auckland rally in March, (pictured) forcing her to leave the protest early in the back of a police car

The defamation threat is in relation to expelled Liberal Party MP Moira Deeming who appeared at a Let Women Speak event in Melbourne in March where black-clad masked neo-Nazis invaded Ms Keen’s rally. Pictured: Protesters at the March rally

A protester is pictured holding a sign at the Auckland rally in March

The campaigner has received faced fierce criticism from LGBTIQA+ groups, as well as politicians who have raised concerns about her perceived association with far-right groups.

She has previously been called ‘a c***’ by one MP from the Australian Greens. She was also slammed by a British MP for saying access to abortion and contraceptives need to be rolled back for children and teenagers. 

Ahead of her travel to Australia, Stephen Bates, the Greens spokesperson for LGBTIQA+ issues, wrote to Immigration Minister Andrew Giles asking him to revoke her visa.

Mr Bates argued that Ms Keen had a long history of ‘promoting or excusing hate and violence towards trans and other marginalised communities’.

Ms Keen founded the SFW group which campaigns for sex based rights and protections of the word woman.

Earlier this year one of the movement’s supporters was ‘manhandled’ by a gang of masked trans activists.

She was assaulted during a counter-protest by the Manchester Trans Rise Up (MTRU) movement next to the city’s statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter’s Square in May.

Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull, also known as Posie Parker, and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson at a Let Women Speak rally outside Parliament House in Canberra in March 2023

The trans activists arrived to disrupt SFW’s speaking event in front of the statue as part of an event which said it aimed to reclaim ‘a part of Manchester for women’s voices’.

And in 2018 a billboard with the definition of a woman written on it funded by Ms Keen was removed after a Twitter activist complained it was ‘transphobic.’

She raised £700 for the poster to be put up in Liverpool for a fortnight to coincide with the Labour Party conference.

The poster, on the side of the old Gaumont cinema on Gredington Street in Toxteth, Liverpool, bore the Google definition of a woman – ‘adult human female.’

But it was removed after Dr Adrian Harrop, 31, who is not transgender, complained to billboard company Primesight that it would serve to make transgender women feel unsafe.

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