"Anything you do or say may be used as evidence."

That's not a police officer. That's a corporation — threatening a farmer on private property for not opening a gate.

Today a VNI West employee showed up at a family farm in regional Victoria.

He demanded access. The farmer didn't move.

So the corporate rep pulled out a script, cited the Electricity Industry Act, and threatened farmers standing silently on their own property that their silence could be used against them.

They didn't yell. They didn't argue. They stood behind his own fence and said nothing. They threatened him anyway.

We filmed the whole thing. This is happening right now across Western and Central Victoria. Farmers are being told they have no choice. When they refuse — quietly, on their own soil — they're threatened with fines and legal action.

Farmers Fightback started at a kitchen table in Wallaloo and Gre Gre. It's now 25,000 signatures and thousands of donors from every corner of the country. Because this isn't about one power line. It's about whether a farmer has the right to say no on their own land.

If they can do this in Victoria, they can do it anywhere.