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OHPI Welcomes New Laws
Melbourne, 21 January 2026 – The Online Hate Prevention Institute welcomes the passage of the “Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism (Criminal and Migration Laws) Bill 2026” late last night. The key hate speech provisions were unfortunately removed by the government prior to the bill being debated by the parliament. Without these provisions, while the new…
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ABC interview and e-mails with the IPA
Earlier today I was interviewed on ABC Radio by Myf Warhurst. We discussed the problem of online hate and what the Online Hate Prevention Institute does about it. This was a head of talks scheduled for the evenings of Tuesday 16/4 in Sydney Wednesday 17/4 in Brisbane and Thursday 2/5 in Melbourne. The interview is…
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Proposed changed to S18C defeated
The Australian Senate last night rejected the government’s proposed changes to water down the Racial Discrimination Act. The defeat came as the Labor, the Greens, the Nick Xenophon team, Jacqui Lambie and others all voted in defense of the current legislation protecting Australians against racial discrimination. The move to seek such changes itself damaged Australia…
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OHPI gives evidence to Parliament on S18C and online hate
On January 31, OHPI’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, gave evidence at a hearing of the Joint Parliamentry Committee on Human Rights as part of their inquiry into Freedom of Speech and S18C. Dr Oboler appeared as part of the Victorian Multicultural, Multi-Faith and Community Coalition which OHPI is proud to be apart of. A full transcript of…
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Freedom of Speech Inquiry – what people said
The first submissions to the Federal Government’s inquiry into S18C and Freedom of Speech have been published on the Parliaments website. More submissions will be released in due course. Here’s some extracts of what some people and organisations said in their submissions: Professors Luke McNamara and Katharine Gelber (Submission 2): “Based on the evidence, therefore,…
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OHPI attends RDA@40
OHPI attended the conference RDA@40 in Sydney on February 19 and 20, 2015 organised the Australian Human Rights Commission. The conference was held to mark the 40th anniversary of the passing of the Racial Discriminate Act (RDA), and was a part of year long celebrations being planned by the Commission. The conference looked at both…
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OHPI releases report on free speech in light of the Charlie Hebdo attacks
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On January 20, 2015, the Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) released a new report “Je Suis Humain: Responsible free speech in the shadow of Charlie Hebdo”. The report is in response to the debate raging in the mainstream and social media on free speech and its limits, if any, in the wake…
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Hate among friends
Most of the online hate OHPI reports on is public content. The reason for this is that public content is able to go viral and can usually do far more harm than content shared between people privately or only between friends. It is because of the greater risk from public content that OHPI usually focuses…
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Lady Diamond explains S18C
In the second in our series of educational videos by Lady Diamond, the anti-hate campaigner explains what S18C of the Racial Discrimination Act is really about and why is it important. Your thoughts and feedback on this video can be shared on it’s main posting on Facebook – click here. Please help us share Lady…
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18C helped beat Facebook hate page
COMMUNITY leaders say section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA) helped them to persuade Facebook this week to close down a page run by the Australian branch of the far-right Greek political party Golden Dawn. The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI) presented the social networking site and the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) with…