An anti-LGBTQ+ Australian senator dropped a trailer for her homophobic anti-woke cartoon movie that was so bad parliament banned it.

Earlier this week, parliamentary officials ordered the last-minute cancellation of a screening showcasing the trailer to A Super Progressive Movie, an animated movie about as bad as its title suggests.

Produced by right-wing senator and leader of the populist party One Nation, Pauline Hanson, the trailer, uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday (25 November), features a cavalcade of spectacularly unfunny homophobic, transphobic, and racist “jokes,” all wrapped in poor quality animation and terrible dialogue.

The Parliament House theatre was spared the horror of hosting a screening for the trailer after officials for the Department of Parliametary Services cancelled the event moments before it was set to begin over policy violations.

Senator Hanson, who just a day prior was suspended from the senate for disrupting parliamentary proceedings by dressing in a burqa, spuriously claimed the suspension came at the “last minute to maximise our inconvenience.”

She claimed the trailer was wrongfully banned for simply “offending people” rather than for its depictions of minority groups.

The film, which will stain select theatres in January, mocks what filmmakers call “crazy lefties”, by spreading deeply hateful conspiracy theories, particularly towards LGBTQ+ people.

Its director said the film is a “hero’s journey” which sees characters “venture into the real world to reclaim their ideology’s most powerful weapon: the Victimhood.”

Speaking of victimhood, the movie’s right-wing creators depict cisgender white males as shackled, malnourished prisoners abused by “lefty lunatics” in an underground dungeon.

Nevertheless, the filmmakers have revelled in the film’s cancellation as “deliciously ironic,” claiming it is the latest victim of cancel culture.

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

Parliament House theatre’s decision to cancel the event of course also falls within the bound of free speech, while hate speech laws in Australia state it is unlawful to publicly “offend, insult, humiliate, or intimidate a person or group of people” on the ground of race, sexuality, ethnic origin, or gender identity.

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