In response, Twitter users in Australia have been using #FreedomOfSpeech to share their personal stories of racial discrimination. Use of the hashtag for this cause was triggered by Australian writer Benjamin Law, who wrote“To celebrate the Coalition tampering with the RDA on#HarmonyDay, let’s...
encouraging scepticism about the authenticity of fair-skinned Aboriginal persons and judgment by non-Aboriginal persons about the legitimacy of Aboriginal identity according to skin colour; questioning the legitimacy of racial vilification laws and strengthening a libertarian conception of freedom of speech....
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Without the right to freedom of assembly or freedom of speech in its Constitution, and without a Bill of Rights, the despotic conduct of Australian governments has run out of control, accelerated first by the overreach of the terror response post the September 11 attacks in the United ...
Further, such a mandate by the government “would also have great implications for the users as such takedown orders could infringe on their fundamental rights like freedom of speech and expression, especially in today’s situation where the Government is available to the public through social media...
Matt Kean is the former treasurer and energy minister of NSW. He now chairs the Climate Change Authority. This is an edited extract of his speech at The Australian Financial Review’s Energy & Climate Summit. Tags:climate change,energy,environment,renewable energy,sustainability ...
Young people such as students may dress to mimic imagined styles valued for their symbolic rejection of wealth, and some working-class families go into debt to purchase expensive cars and other commodities. Patterns of speech, consumption patterns associated with entertainment and the arts, and ...
“So people are either being hypocrites when they say Je Suis Charlie, or they actually believe in free speech and recognize that laws that make it unlawful to insult or offend people are censorious and would see thatCharlie Hebdowould be censored in Australia,” he added....
Once in Australia Carnarvon commented on the value of the Imperial Institute to the colonies—but without specifically calling for donations—when Clarke mentioned that letter in his speech proposing Carnarvon’s health at a Masonic banquet in Melbourne, Victoria, on 14 November 1887.[41] I have ...
Australia: Anti-terror laws designed to stop ISIS recruitment will curb free speech, leaders warn Australia's controversial proposed anti-terrorism law could be used against Muslims with no connection to terrorist activities and could stifle free speech and debate, ac...