On account of /auspol being absolutely dead and there being nothing in the catalog. Let's talk Australia.
So; today, in the Senate, 20 senators are going to speak about the Coalition's proposed changes to 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act.
These changes are to remove the phrase "the act is reasonably likely, in all the circumstances, to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people" and replace the words "offend" and "insult" with "vilify".
These changes have been proposed and supported by a wide range of knowledgeable people:
Attorney-General George Brandis
Paul Howes, a dirty unionist, who nevertheless the less said "section 18C stretches into the realm of what Orwell might have called a Thought Crime"
The Australian Law Reform Commission who announced "In particular, there are arguments that s18C lacks sufficient precision and clarity, and unjustifiably interferes with freedom of speech by extending to speech that is reasonably likely to ‘offend’." The Australian Law Reform Commission is an independent statutory body created specifically to talk about these things.
The President of the Human Rights Commission Gillian Triggs.
These laws have been used successfully to silence such thought as Andrew Bolt's articles where he questioned people's ability to claim special status due to their Aboriginal Heritage. A topic, that despite the Labor and the Green's constant battle, is still a topic that people discuss.
Yes, politicians on the left keep saying things like "this is not a topic being talked about around australian kitchen tables."
Well guess what fucktards? I'm talking about it around my table; and so are a damn lot of other people. The left in Australia seems to forget that we're a very racist country, and to be honest, we're a little proud of it.
Sources:
austlii.edu.au
abc.net.au
abc.net.au