Racial Discrimination Act
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Normalising Holocaust Denial, Aboriginal Memes and more
The Online Hate Prevention Institute (OHPI), the national harm prevention charity dedicated to online hate issues, today warned that proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act will have the effect of normalising Holocaust denial, racist Aboriginal memes and more in social media. The charity’s CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, today highlighted the important role of the…
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Reporting Proud Holocaust Deniers
Summary The Facebook page Proud to be a Holocaust Denier (page id: 1420505938199432) was created on March 24th 2014. It currently has 262 supporters. The page propagates antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Some of the page’s content could be described as deliberately misleading, while other content could be described as deliberately offensive. The content, however, goes…
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Racial discrimination: they just don’t get it
The underlying problem the Government is facing over changes to the Racial Discrimination Act is that it still doesn’t understand the point the Judge was making in the Bolt case. It still doesn’t understand what Bolt did wrong. They don’t understand the danger to the social cohesion of Australia that comes from actions like Bolt’s.…
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Potential Fight Over Federal Racial Discrimination Act s 18C: Unbolting “Bolt”
February 25, 2014, www.timebase.com.au, http://www.timebase.com.au/news/2014/AT097-article.html Recent press has reported that Federal Attorney-General George Brandis (the Attorney) has said that the Federal criminal laws banning racial violence “have been too narrowly drawn” in that they should in fact also prohibit the “incitement to racial hatred”. This appears to be a deviation from the Attorney’s (and his government’s) previously…
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Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech in Australia
December 18, 2013: Andre Oboler, Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech in Australia, Jerusalem Post, http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Internet-Engagement/Freedom-of-Speech-and-Hate-Speech-in-Australia-364133 Freedom of speech is an important right, but it is not absolute. Like all other rights, it can at times clash with other fundamental rights. The balance struck between conflicting rights forms part of the fundamental nature of a society.…
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Statement from Victorian community organisations
We have read with growing concern that the Federal government has plans to remove or water down the protections against racial vilification which presently extend to Australians of all backgrounds under the Racial Discrimination Act (RDA). This would be a step backwards for Australia. We oppose absolutely any such change. The proposal to change the…
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Proposed changes to Racial Discrimination Act’s S18C re “insult” & “offend”
As reported yesterday in the Australian, the first legislation to be introduced into the Parliament by Australia’s new Attorney-General George Brandis will focus on altering or repealing Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. The move, in response to the Bolt Case, is being sold as a move to protect traditional freedoms. It realigns Australia further…