"When Aleister Crowley died in 1947, his enemies prayed it would be the last anybody would ever hear of the Satanic reprobate. The infamous English occultist promoted devil worship; filed his teeth into sharp points; and led a religious cult that involved eating a demonic Eucharist host flavoured with bodily fluids. He also informed devotees that his excrement was sacred – giving a whole new meaning to ‘holy shit’. Respectable opinion was glad to see six foot of earth separate Crowley’s ashes from humanity. But you just can’t keep an old devil like Crowley down!"
- From Beardy History, 3 years ago, History and Mystery from TV Historian Tony McMahon
Preamble
This story headed AUSTRALIA vs X first came to our attention in 2025.
Part 1 of this story was posted to Fifth Estate Press on 20 December 2025 (see link here).
We predicted, back then, that the plaintiff would win. This individual mounted a significant defamation case against the host and co-host of a Twitter X-Spaces public discussion forum for the crime of listening to a guest speaker.
You could sense, when reading published interlocutory decisions, that the case was pre-judged.
On 19 May 2026 - the day the final decision came out - we posted an update that vindicated our earlier prediction.
The story commences in September 2024, in the New South Wales District Court.
The plaintiff was Mr David Bottrill from Canberra - who, according to Grok, is the public face of the Ordo Templi Orientis secret society in Australia, and its former national treasurer.
The plaintiff’s only witness was his friend Mr Rod Swift from Melbourne, a well-known gay activist, a former policy development officer of the Australian Greens political party and prolific cyber troll dedicated to stalking and exposing the X-Spaces guest speaker, Mr Luke McKee - a well-known anti-gay activist and also a prolific cyber troll.
These two litigants, Mr David Bottrill & Mr Rod Swift - working together - were represented by a professional legal team.
The hapless defendents were self-represented, being the X-Spaces host (Mr David Graham - “Guru” to his friends - from Wollongong Harbour) and his nominated co-host on the day (Mrs Cathryn Gibson from Tasmania).
The alleged defamation of the individual Mr Bottrill, by one guest on the show, Mr Luke McKee, happened only tangentally. This was as a consequence of the guest’s defamation of the secret society - the organization OTO - whilst naming Mr Bottrill as a leader.
The alleged defamation resulted from Mr Luke McKee’s weapon of choice against the LGBTQ agenda: the linkage of sexual abuse of children to the protected attribute of homosexuality. He has caused, since 2014, the expenditure of millions of dollars of Australian taxpayer’s dollars to manufacture caselaw that prohibits (under vilification anti-discrimination law) any social media statement that draws a linkage between the crime of pedophilia & pederasty and the protected attribute of homosexuality. This is further discussed under caselaw, below.
The alleged defamation by Luke McKee happened on three Twitter X-Space discussion forums, titled as follows.
Guru and Crew. Aussie Chat. Bosi in the space. Let’s GO!!!!!!
(24 January 2024, see transcripts here)Guru n Crew . . . . Whistle Blowing Folks. . . Don’t miss this . . .
(29 January 2024, see transcripts here)Guru n Crew . . . All Welome. Getting Organized. We Win
(3 February 2024, see transcripts here)
Witness Mr Rod Swift had been stalking, for several years, Mr Luke McKee who, during this time, had been on a crusade to expose Ordo Templi Orientis as, in effect, a Satanic LGBT sex cult.
Mr Swift had Twitter/X notifications set to tell him when & where Mr Luke McKee would be on X-Spaces. He then stalked the spaces with the intention of entrapping his target and reporting back to Mr Bottrill. This was done, it is assumed, for the purpose of initiating the game of lawfare. It’s all explained in Mr Swift’s witness statement copied at the end of this story.
The lawsuit was a done under the tort of defamation. The alleged defamation of Mr Bottrill was done NOT by the defendants, but by Mr Luke McKee, one of the guest speakers on the shows.
However, Mr McKee got off scot-free.
He may have escaped the lawfare because he resides overseas in Vietnam, outside the jurisdiction of the New South Wales District Court. Instead, the Australian host, and later, the co-host of the shows were deemed the unsuspecting guilty party, as surrogates for Luke McKee. The entrapped pair were deemed guilty of artificial dissemination.
The final decision came out on 19 May 2026. The innocent victims of the lawfare sting operation were ordered to pay the OTO leader over $300,000 as damages. In addition they were ordered to pay all the costs of his legal team amounting to over $100,000. This is further detailed below.
Ordo Templi Orientis.
The religious LGBT sex cult is a secret society that goes by the name Ordo Templi Orientis, or OTO for short. It can be checked out on the internet (see Wikipedia entry here).
OTO is described by Wikipedia (2025) as an occult secret society and hermetic magical organization.
Wikipedia (2017) says, in relation to the practices of OTO:-
“The degrees of the Hermit Triad are of a sexual nature. In the VIII° degree, the initiate is taught masturbation magical practices, in the IX° degree magical techniques related to vaginal intercourse, and in the XI° a form of sex magick involving anal intercourse. The basis of OTO’s sex magic is Crowley’s theory of mixing of semen and female ejaculate released during the sex magic operation to produce an “elixir”, which is ingested or smeared on an object for magical purposes.”
Members of OTO claim to have a religious dogma of what they call Thelema, invented by Aleister Crowley (see Wikipedia entry here)
The court case
The official title of the 111-page final judgement on 19 May 2026 is: Bottrill v Graham & Anor (No 4) [2026] NSWDC 169 (link to the judgement is here)
This judgement - that will surely be appealed - appears to have created a legal precedent - using Australian defamation law - to sabotage Elon Musk's aim of bringing free speech and open discussion forums to ordinary people. Conspiracy theorists & true believers in mainstream media narratives, right wing nut-jobs and Antifa diehards alike could be free to argue their case.
No more.
Up to May 19, 2026 it was open slather on X-Spaces for ordinary Australian's engaged in "pub talk", be it focussed on 9/11, the COVID scam, the Jeffrey Epstein class, the elimination of Charlie Kirk, immigration, toxic masculinity, Islam, the antisemitism crisis, the Israel problem, transgender madness, Gaza, Iran, Trump, the rise of One Nation, or whatever. . . .
If these diverse opinions - including what is called bullshit - can be thrashed out by ordinary people, in a free market-place of ideas, then there’s nothing to fear: the truth has a way of emerging over time.
To draw an analogy, the Twitter X-Spaces can serve as a PSV (pressure safety valve) on a pressure vessel. It automatically opens to relieve above-design internal pressure, preventing the vessel bursting. In the same way, X-Spaces can relieve internal societal pressure, preventing pent up anger spilling over into violence.
On bullshit
Do not be cynical about bullshit . . . for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is perennial as the grass (line adapted from Desiderata).
Bullshit is everywhere. It’s all too human. Get used to it.
Any perceived bullshit artist on X-Spaces can be called out by ordinary Aussies in the discussion forum. That’s free speech. Streetwise, straight-talking Aussies generally have good bullshit-detection capability.
It’s a futile activity to try and stop people bullshitting on Twitter, by means of lawfare.
That is, unless the purpose of the lawfare is
(i) to make caselaw, and/or
(ii) to make money.
In the case we’re looking at here - Bottrill v Graham & Anor - we say (i) motivates the judiciary. and (ii) motivates the plaintiff. It’s a win-win for both those parties.
On truth and belief
There’s a reference to bullshit in the bible, see 2 Timothy 2:16:-
But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.
Students of philosophy learn about the categorization of bullshit, in relation to the truth-belief overlap. See this Fifth Estate Press story here.
For an example of pure, unadulterated bullshit, we need to look no further than the writings of Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). We need to look no further than the webpage of the Australian branch of Ordo Templi Orientis (link here).
It’s suggested that the ideas of Aleister Crowley, on free will and morality, were hijacked from the writings of the 19th century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), particularly from the latter’s polemical work Beyond Good And Evil.
When Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, he meant something different. He meant there are no laws of nature undergirding the universe, no immutable logic for all rational beings to conform to and, most notoriously, no morality.
Nietzsche’s writings on free will and morality were hijacked by Crowley to justify his occult “do what thou wilt” exhortation.
These ideas are further explored in the Fifth Estate Press commentary on Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, posted on 19 Feb 2026 (see link here)
What we see in Crowley’s writings is the antithesis of Christian teachings. That’s why it’s scandalous that Judge Gibson described OTO as a conservative Christian organization. This is further discussed below.
On free will
See the “do what thou wilt” screenshot below, taken from the Australian OTO website.
Christian moral teachings say that we do indeed have free will, but given a choice, we are obliged to obey divine law and natural law in order to avoid sin.
We are also obliged to submit to man-made law, except in circumstances where this law is in contravention of natural law [ref. Romans 13:1-2]. That’s why Christians do not recognize the validity of laws that remove gender from marriage, or entrench the concept of gender-identity into anti-discrimination law. That’s because this modern legislation is queer law that is at odds with natural law.
Sin in the Christian ethos is defined as an act, thought, or desire that violates moral or divine law.
Crowley’s Thelema says there is no external divine law and natural law to which mankind is subjected. It’s therefore the antithesis of Christian morality, summarized in lines 4 and 5 of The Lord’s Prayer that says ‘Thy will be done’ NOT ‘Do what thou wilt’.
In the OTO Gnostic Mass - the Black Mass in Christian doctrine - the priestly attire and the holy communion of the centuries-old Catholic Mass is mimicked in an act of sacrilege and desecration. Jesus Christ is replaced with Baphomet as the god to be worshipped. That’s why the OTO Gnostic Mass as categorized as Satanic.
On morality
Ordo Templi Orientis is well known for being a “sex cult” whose initiation levels incorporate what they call Sex Magick (link to Guardian newspaper article here).
The sexual behaviour in their Sex Magick initiation rituals (according to defectors from the cult) is totally divorced from the procreative or biological function of human sexuality.
Academic historians and psychologists who have evaluated Aleister Crowley’s life - characterized by extreme sexual libertinism, integration of sex into occult rituals (sex magick), and sadomasochistic tendencies - generally attribute his complex behavioural patterns to severe anti-social and narcissistic personality structures combined with his having the psychosexual disorder of bisexuality.
Crowley’s construction of Thelema is believed therefore to be psychologically self-serving.
We say that Thelema serves to assuage Crowley and his follower’s inculcated Christian sense of sin that would normally arise from giving expression to their psychosexual disorders.
The concept of “self-mastery” as mentioned in this Catholic catechism (italics below) is the opposite of Crowley’s injunctions.
The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfil God’s will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord’s Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.
Homosexual persons are called to chastity. By the virtues of self-mastery that teach them inner freedom, at times by the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.
This approach - that urges celibacy for LGBTQ people - would naturally drive them away from what they see as sexual opression. It would make them ideal recruits to the “do what thou wilt” alternative philosophy of Aleister Crowley and his acolytes. Sodomy, once outlawed by the state as a crime, and by the church as a sin, becomes “sex magick” and a path to spiritual enlightenment!
That’s why OTO is called a LGBTQ religion. It liberates LGBTQ people from a sense of sin by giving them permission to “do what thou wilt” when it comes to sexual urges arising from homosexuality, bisexuality, paedophilia, pederasty, paraphilia and so on. There is no need for the practise of “self mastery” to avoid sexual sin, as taught in Catholic dogma.
Vulnerable defendants
This new caselaw, that we call AUSTRALIA vs X, shows us that vulnerable Aussie X-Space hosts & guests can be stalked by unscrupulous & vexatious serial litigants (trolls) and gay/OTO activists motivated by politics, money and the thrill of lawfare.
When thinking about the plight of the defendants in this case, it brings to mind the Dylan song Hurricane (1975)
How can the life of such a man
Be in the palm of some fool’s hand?
To see him obviously framed
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed
To live in a land where justice is a game
Public discussion of the kind of conspiracy theories mentioned above can cause a problem for US-aligned governments. This is especially true in relation to 9/11 conspiracy theories that tend to undermine the moral basis of US foreign policy to which Australia is tied through the ANZUS treaty.
The Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) - would have an interest in the outcome of this case, to ensure radical or far-right ideas of the One Nation Party do not undermine Australia’s social cohesion and hence national security. Because OTO is a secret society, ASIO also need to know who the members are, for national security reasons. It would be surprising, indeed irresponsible, if ASIO had not interviewed - or even recruited David Bottrill to monitor the secret society and keep an eye on the membership in powerful places.
As a result of this May 19, 2026, legal precedent, X-Spaces can no longer be considered a free-speech zone.
The outcome of this case was not at all surprising for three (3) reasons.
Firstly, the plaintiff is an expert & professional serial litigant who has won all of the civil law cases he’s initiated, and there are many (see below).
Most of these cases are against bloggers who platformed Mr Luke McKee, thus disseminating his unlawful beliefs about Ordo Templi Orientis and the LGBTQ agenda.
Secondly, the court portrayed OTO as being a Christian religion when the opposite is true.
This is how Judge Gibson described the plaintiff in her 28 November 2024 interlocutory decision:
“The plaintiff, a retired member of the Australian Public Service, is a member of a conservative Christian religious group known as the Ordo Templi Orientis”.
Such flagrant deception by a sitting judge to mislead a potential jury in the case and also mislead the court of public opinion - suggests judicial bias and possible grounds for appeal.
Thirdly, the outcome of the court decision appears to be in line with Australia’s national security interests. This is evidenced by the recent reports of the Albanese government pumping A$74 million into the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) to set up a task force to monitor and control social media. See Fifth Estate Press post on this 11 May 2026 announcement here.
Charging the co-host
It was only Mr David “Guru” Graham, the host/interviewer of the X-Spaces show, who was originally sued by the plaintiff.
From media reports, this individual was a fair-dinkum Aussie concreter from Wollongong, who lives in a boat owned by his wife. So. . . . he’s not really suitable as a target for a defamation case, the remedy for which is always the payment of monetary damages to the plaintiff.
It seems that later, the co-host of the X-Spaces show was dragged into the legal quagmire by the experienced and cynical defamation legal team representing the plaintiff.
She is a mother from Tasmania who joined the subject X-Spaces discussion forum mainly due to her and the group’s interest in the COVID conspiracy debate.
She had minimal involvement in the show.
It’s assumed the plaintiff and his friend wished use this lawfare to seek a big monetary payout and believed she was a more suitable target because she appeared, from her internet website, to live in a expensive-looking house.
The 19 May 2026 decision ordered the defendant and co-defendant to jointly pay the plaintiff $235,000 in compensatory damages plus $80,000 in aggravated damages for harm to his reputation as high-ranking member of the secret society of ill repute.
Here’s one of many questions that arise about this unusual case. Why wasn’t the actual person who uttered the allegedly defamatory opinions & beliefs about Ordo Templi Orientis sued? Suing the innocent host and co-host is not going to stop Luke McKee. He will continue to go on to X-Spaces to spread his now deemed unlawful beliefs about OTO. This suggests that the plaintiff Mr David Bottrill and Mr Luke McKee are caught up in a symbiotic relationship, with each party benefiting from the lawfare in different ways. Mr Bottrill gets a lucrative source of X-Spaces litigation targets and Mr McKee gets more attention paid to him.
The relatively innocent hosts of the show were sued for the invitee/interviewee’s publicly-expressed beliefs & opinions about Ordo Templi Orientis, arising from his research and his study of the numerous prior court and tribunal cases initiated by the plaintiff.
The apprehended lack of natural justice observed in this case might be explained by the proclivities & inconsistencies of evolved defamation law. We’ll leave speculation to academics more qualified in Australian jurisprudence than this citizen journalist.
Caselaw history
Regarding the first reason mentioned above, we simply search the Australasian Legal Information Institute website to discover the case law the plaintiff and his handlers have successfully created by wining the numerous civil law cases they have initiated.
In most of these cases, Mr David Bottrill received monetary damages payouts amounting to thousands of dollars from the social media bloggers who spread rumours about Ordo Templi Orientis:-
ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS v LEGG (Anti-Discrimination) [2007] VCAT 1484 (27 July 2007)
Judgement here.ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS v DIVINE & ANOR (Anti-Discrimination) [2007] VCAT 2470 (28 November 2007)
Order for arrest and imprisonment of respondents here.
Writings by the respondents here.BOTTRILL v VAN LIESHOUT & ORS (Civil Dispute) [2015] ACAT 26 (31 March 2015)
Judgement here. The respondent’s YouTube report here.BOTTRILL v CRISTIAN & ANOR (Civil Dispute) [2016] ACAT 7 (10 February 2016)
CRISTIAN v BOTTRILL [2016] ACTSC 315 (13 October 2016)
CRISTIAN v BOTTRILL (Appeal) [2016] ACAT 104 (12 September 2016)
Judgement here.BOTTRILL v SUNOL & ANOR (Discrimination) [2017] ACAT 81 (9 October 2017)
Judgement here.
BOTTRILL v SUNOL (Discrimination) [2018] ACAT 21 (13 March 2018)
Judgement here.BOTTRILL v BAILEY (Civil Dispute) [2018] ACAT 45 (20 April 2018)
Judgement here. Alt-media report here.BAILEY v BOTTRILL (Appeal) [2018] ACAT 120 (30 November 2018)
Judgement here.BAILEY v BOTTRILL (No 2) [2019] ACTSC 167 (27 June 2019)
BAILEY v BOTTRILL [2019] ACTSC 45 (28 February 2019)
BAILEY v BOTTRILL (Appeal) [2021] ACAT 103 (27 October 2021)
Judgemernt here.KERSLAKE v SUNOL (Discrimination) [2022] ACAT 40 (16 May 2022)
Judgement here.KERSLAKE v SUNOL (Discrimination) [2023] ACAT 18 (22 March 2023)
Judgement here.SUNOL v KERSLAKE (Appeal) [2024] ACAT 35 (24 May 2024)
Judgement here,BAILEY v MCCRAE & ORS (Civil Dispute) [2024] ACAT 82 (7 November 2024)
Judgement here.BELL v BAILEY (Appeal) [2025] ACAT 56 (20 August 2025)
Judgement here.BOTTRILL v GRAHAM [2024] NSWDC 566 (28 November 2024)
BOTTRILL v GRAHAM & ANOR (No 2) [2025] NSWDC 221 (20 June 2025)
BOTTRILL v GRAHAM & ANOR (No 3) [2025] NSWDC 306 (12 August 2025)
BOTTRILL v GRAHAM & ANOR (No 4) [2026] NSWDC 169 (19 May 2026)
The organization & the individual
Regarding the second reason given above, it’s clear that the court studiously avoided considering any evidence relating to the organization OTO - the true target of alleged defamation - and instead made the case all about a private individual Mr David Bottrill.
You can see how all this works once you begin to see that the plaintiff’s being used as the “fall-guy” for the OTO secret society in Australia.
The plaintiff was not the primary target of alleged defamation by Luke McKee, if you study the transcripts of the three subject X-Spaces podcasts.
With this in mind, the correct plaintiff should have been Ordo Templi Orientis, as it was in the first case in which Mr Bottrill was involved, namely ORDO TEMPLI ORIENTIS v LEGG (Anti Discrimination) [2007] VCAT 1484 (27 July 2007).
The court made every effort to paint Mr Bottrill as a conservative Christian, and the defendant as a cooker. The irony in this case, is that the reverse appears to be true.
Any person who ascribes to the bullshit of Aleister Crowley’s writing is a cooker, as perceived through the eyes of an ordinary reasonable person.
On the other hand, it’s well known that the defendant “Guru” identifies as Christian. Ditto for the co-defendant, Mrs Gibson the namesake of the original judge.
It can be argued that the original judge (Gibson) got the story arse-about when portraying the plaintiff as a Christian and the defendant as a Cooker.
That statement from the bench - that the plaintiff is a conservative Christian - is believed to be a distortion of the truth aimed at misleading a potential jury trial, that the self-represented defendants wanted but were not allowed.
The 20 June 2025 interlocutory decision also misrepresented the defamation as being against Mr Bottrill personally, when in reality it was against the organization OTO.: -
“Over the last decade, “Luke”, the invitee for the matters complained of, has provided material to sites generally known as “cookers” (i.e. conspiracy websites) accusing the plaintiff of these crimes and the plaintiff has responded by bringing a series of defamation actions, in all of which he has been successful. The second defendant told the court that the first defendant, who calls himself “Guru” on his “cooker” pod site, invited Luke onto the program because he was keen to obtain information about a podcasting rival called “Cookerwatch”, whose ridicule of Guru is described in the matters complained of, and Luke had promised to do so.”
It’s interesting that this person “Cookerwatch” was invited by “Guru” to join the discussion on to his second X-Spaces broadcast. This was the main show wherein Luke McKee was the primary guest speaker. She engaged in defamation of Luke McKee, calling him a paedophile without any evidence.
This illustrates the inherent power imbalance of this case. Mr Bottrill has the resources to mount a costly defamation case against innocent parties for hosting Luke McKee, who didn’t directly defame the plaintiff but instead defamed Oodo Templi Orientis. Yet the actual defamation that happened on the podcast was done by Cookerwatch who goes unpunished because her target is powerless.
1 hour and 17 minutes into the 3-hour show on 29 January 2024: -
Cookerwatch - “You are not exposing anything. You are a fucking paedophile yourself, mate, and this is really good cover for you.
Luke McKee - “Psychological projection, good luck with that.”
1 hour and 21 minutes:
Cookerwatch - He’s in Vietnam, he’s in paedo heaven . . .
Cookerwatch - He’s is in paedo heaven right now. We should just leave him alone.
Luke McKee - Oh, there you go, that’s racist. . .
Cookerwatch - I’m not . . .I’m not going to defend myself
To give you an idea of the sting operation, we publish below the statement of the plaintiff’s only witness, Mr Rod Swift.
This statement says says that the relationship of the witness to the plaintiff was only based on simple friendship. The pair of friends were working together to stalk & target Mr Luke McKee who, it appears, is their public enemy number one.
This statement came into our hands from sources that we are not at liberty to disclose. We’ve provided a text summary of the document below, with appropriate redactions to protect the privacy of the witness.
This will demonstrate the extraordinary amount of attention & care put into providing the court with evidence of X-Spaces publication.
What is rather odd, is that the X-Spaces guest who was responsible for actual alleged defamation got off scot-free. It is true that there was defamation of the OTO organization, but this has been misinterpreted by the court as defamation of Mr Bottrill the individual.
It was the innocent host/interviewer who got sued. More likely than not, it was innocent dissemination, however the lawyers representing the plaintiff made out arguments suggesting it was guilty dissemmination.
The witness statement
In this statement, the witness provided the court with his superseded X account. As of the time of writing his X trolling account is https://x.com/AusOpinion8ed
Above: a ‘selfie’ from the abovementioned @AusOpinion8ed X account. Does anyone know what those symbols represent?
Above: X-profile of @AusOpinion8ed.
DISTRICT COURT OF SOUTH WALES
Filed: 17 March 2026 11:47 AM
AFFIDAVIT OF [NAME REDACTED] - 14 March 2026
Court: District Court of NSW
Registry: Defamation List
Case number: 2024/00334742
First Plaintiff: David Bottrill
First Defendant: David Michael Graham
Second Defendant: Cathryn Gale Gibson
Filed for David Bottrill, Plaintiff
Legal representative: Michael Charles O’Connor
ATTACHMENT DETAILS
In accordance with Part 3 of the UCPR, this coversheet confirms that both the Affidavit (General) (e-Services), along with any other documents listed below, were filed by the Court.
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Attachment reference: 2024/00334742-001/057/01
Accessing documents: Click on the above link(s) or log in to the Online Registry. Printing documents for service: This coversheet and ALL linked attachments MUST BE printed.
Date: Saturday 14 March 2026
I affirm:
1. I am a witness.
2. Generative artificial intelligence was not used to generate: a. this affidavit. b. any annexure/exhibit to this affidavit prepared or created to the deponent’s knowledge for the purposes of these proceedings.
3. I am a friend of the plaintiff.
4. I am a user on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. Until mid-2025, my social media feed was found at https://x.com/kogumarod and I used the X username of @kogumarod.
5. Within my use of X, I follow a number of other users of X whom I have chosen to follow the social media content published by those other users. Following another user causes the X platform to populate a section of the application to show social media posts from these followed users.
6. I have also selected a few of these users to generate notification alerts for these selected users’ posts on the X platform.
7. A user I had set up notification alerts is an account by the name of Cookerwatch. This user’s social media feed is found at https://x.com/cookerwatch and that person uses the X username of @cookerwatch.
8. I have followed this account since early February 2023.
Presence of [NAME REDACTED] in X Space on 24 January 2024:
9. I distinctly recall reading alerts in the X application on the evening of 24 January 2024 generated from posts by user Cookerwatch. I took great interest in the post by Cookerwatch at 9.07pm, as it quoted a prior post by Cookerwatch on 16 January 2024 that featured a video of [NAME REDACTED] talking to David Oneeglio.
This 9.07pm post also mentioned that [NAME REDACTED] was appearing live in one of the X platform’s Spaces.
10. A further post by Cookerwatch at 10.27pm linked to the X Space that [NAME REDACTED] was speaking in. Spaces are live audio broadcasts hosted, and sometimes co-hosted, by X users.
11. Exhibit marked ‘RWS1’ is a thread of X posts, which includes Cookerwatch’s posts of 24 January 2024 at 9.07pm and 10.27pm.
12. I entered this Space, via the link shared by Cookerwatch, using the anonymous listener function of X Spaces. This Space was at https://x.com/i/spaces/1vAxRvRYNZVxI
13. I saw this Space was hosted by a user named Guru. This user’s social media feed is found at https://x.com/StoptheRot7 and that person uses the X username of @StoptheRot7. On reviewing activity on this account, I ascertained this X account was operated by Mr David Graham.
14. I saw this Space was co-hosted by a user named Cathryn G. This user’s social media feed is found at https://x.com/CathrynAussie and that person uses the X username of @CathrynAussie. On reviewing activity on this account, I ascertained this X account was operated by Ms Cathryn Gibson.
15. I also saw that this Space’s broadcast was being recorded.
16. As I had joined the conversation toward the end of this live Space broadcast, I waited for this Space to conclude before replaying this Space’s audio recording.
17. While replaying this Space, I heard [NAME REDACTED] say Mr Bottrill is the leader of a paedophile cult.
18. A short time after this Space concluded, I researched tools which would allow me to download a copy of the audio.
19. I found a free Spaces audio downloading tool, called Lychee, located at https://www.lychee.so/download-space
20. I read the Lychee website and found the Lychee service converts any X Space to a downloadable MP3 audio file on request, and alerts a requester via email once the file is available for download.
21. I submitted a request via Lychee for a copy of the X Space audio.
22. I received an email from Lychee on 25 January 2024 at 12:22am that provided a link the MP3 audio of this Space. Exhibit marked ‘RWS2’ is a copy of that email.
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23. Shortly after, I downloaded the MP3 audio file of this Space to my personal computer from the link generated by Lychee and emailed to me.
24. Similarly, I also advised Mr Bottrill that I had preserved the recording.
Presence of [NAME REDACTED] in X Space on 29 January 2024:
25. Between 25 January 2024 and 29 January 2024, researched Mr Graham and Ms Gibson by viewing their X social media posts and their profile pages.
26. I saw that Ms Gibson hosted an X Community, called Guru ‘N The Aussie Crew, located at https://x.com/i/communities/1669866566903828483
27. I also saw within this X Community, and among the X posts of Mr Graham, a scheduled future Space broadcast timed on the evening of 29 January 2024. I set a reminder for this scheduled Space so I could listen live.
28. I entered this 29 January 2024 scheduled Space a few moments after this Space commenced, using the anonymous listener function of X Spaces. This Space was at https://x.com/i/spaces/1djGXNKORVexZ
29. I saw this Space was hosted by Mr Graham and co-hosted by Ms Gibson.
30. I also saw that this Space broadcast was being recorded.
31. While listening live to this Space, I heard [NAME REDACTED] say Mr Bottrill is the leader of a child abuse cult, that Mr Bottrill is a perjurer, that Mr Bottrill is a member of a satanic cult, and that Mr Bottrill’s religious observance involves drinking blood and molesting children.
32. I also heard [NAME REDACTED] mention my name a number of times in this Space. Because of this, I decided I would listen to future scheduled Spaces hosted by Mr Graham.
33. After this Space concluded, I again used the Lychee Spaces audio downloading tool, and I submitted a request for a copy of the X Space audio.
34. I received an email from Lychee on 30 January 2024 at 12:30pm that provided a link the MP3 audio of this Space. Exhibit marked ‘RWS3’ is a copy of that email
35. Shortly after, I downloaded the MP3 audio file of this Space to my personal computer from the link generated by Lychee and emailed to me.
36. Similarly, I also advised Mr Bottrill that I had preserved the recording
Presence of [NAME REDACTED] in X Space on 3 February 2024:
37. In the days following the 29 January 2024 Space, I saw among the X posts of Mr Graham, a scheduled future Space broadcast timed on the evening of 3 February 2024. I set a reminder for this scheduled Space so I could listen live.
38. I entered this 3 February 2024 scheduled Space moments after this Space commenced, using the anonymous listener function of X Spaces. This Space was at https://x.com/i/spaces/1DXxyjZwVeZKM
39. I saw this Space was hosted by Mr Graham and co-hosted by Ms Gibson.
40. I also saw that this Space broadcast was being recorded.
41. While listening live to this Space, I heard [NAME REDACTED] say Mr Bottrill is the head of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), and that the OTO is a child abuse cult with a doctrine of child abuse.
42. After this Space concluded, I again used the Lychee Spaces audio downloading tool, and I submitted a request for a copy of the X Space audio.
43. I received an email from Lychee on 4 February 2024 at 12.08am that provided a link the MP3 audio of this Space. Exhibit marked ‘RWS4’ is a copy of that email.
44. Shortly after, I downloaded the MP3 audio file of this Space to my personal computer from the link generated by Lychee and emailed to me.
45. Similarly, I also advised Mr Bottrill that I had preserved the recording.
Audience size of each X Space:
46. At some point in late June 2024, Mr Bottrill asked me if I could research ways to ascertain any data relating to audience size for each of the three X Spaces.
47. I reviewed X posts by Mr Graham which advertised and linked to the location of each Space. Each of these Spaces appeared to indicate a cumulative engagement count for both live and recording listeners, apparently rounded down to the nearest hundred listeners.
48. I was also able to find a website, Spaces Dashboard, which appeared to report various data points about Spaces, including the number of live listeners to a Space.
49. On 29 July 2024, I visited each X post of Mr Graham’s, saving each post in a PDF file
50. I saw that the 24 January 2024 broadcast had not less than 2,100 total listeners. Exhibit marked ‘RWS5’ is the saved PDF showing this data.
51. I saw that the 29 January 2024 broadcast had not less than 3,300 total listeners. Exhibit marked ‘RWS6’ is the saved PDF showing this data.
52. I saw that the 3 February 2024 broadcast had not less than 1,900 total listeners. Exhibit marked ‘RWS7’ is the saved PDF showing this data.
53. On 29 July 2024, I also visited the Spaces Dashboard webpage pertaining to each Space, saving each page in a PDF file.
54. I saw that the 24 January 2024 broadcast appeared to have 1,043 live listeners. Exhibit marked ‘RWS8’ is the saved PDF showing this data.
55. I saw that the 29 January 2024 broadcast appeared to have 1,389 live listeners. Exhibit marked ‘RWS9’ is the saved PDF showing this data.
56. I saw that the 3 February 2024 broadcast appeared to have 864 live listeners. Exhibit marked ‘RWS10’ is the saved PDF showing this data.
AFFIRMED at Werribee Police Station
Signature of deponent
Name of witness [NAME REDACTED]
Capacity of witness: [#Justice of the peace]
And as a witness, I certify the following matters concerning the person who made this affidavit (the deponent): #I saw the face of the deponent.
#I have confirmed the deponent’s identity using the following identification document. PASSPORT
Signature of witness
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EXHIBIT RWS1 30/07/2024 15:00
Cookerwatch: “Guru has this shady fucking creature on his Spaces live right now. He keeps trying to talk over people”
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EXHIBIT RWS8 29/07/2024, 18:58
Guru and Crew Aussie Chat
Bosi in the space Let’s GO !!!!!!!
29/07/2024, 16:59
KERSLAKE v SUNOL
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