Free speech: Labor taketh away, Abbott concurs?

Posted on February 14, 2014 by KG

‘Attorney-General George Brandis seems not to be delivering on his promise to restore our free speech..’
If true, this is a cowardly betrayal.

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10 Responses to Free speech: Labor taketh away, Abbott concurs?

  1. Michael in Nelson says:
    February 14, 2014 at 09:11

    This involves government and politicians….you expected something different?

  2. mawm says:
    February 14, 2014 at 10:14

    What a shame, Abbott’s government has been showing a lot of promise.

    • KG says:
      February 14, 2014 at 10:26

      If he fails in this, then nothing he does subsequently is worth a damn. He makes much of improving the lot of Aborigines – and good on him for that – but free speech must be a much higher priority.

      • thor42 says:
        February 14, 2014 at 14:23

        If Brandis wimps out on this it is an unforgivable betrayal.

        I’ve been putting this quote of his all over the place (and a very good one it is too) –

        “You cannot have a situation in a liberal democracy in which the expression of an opinion is rendered unlawful because somebody else finds it offensive or insulting.”
        – George Brandis, Attorney-General of Australia.

  3. Mathew says:
    February 15, 2014 at 05:57

    Once you give leftism a chance, then it’s like crapping in the pool, whoever takes over, you get the same crap, it’s just different management.

  4. Wombat says:
    February 15, 2014 at 07:50

    We all know these laws exist to stomp on the little guy and keep the elite in power through selective prosecution.
    For example. Tony runs on a “stop the boats” campaign, and although the law demands he be prosecuted for making chocco refugees feel “humiliated” he won’t be because he’s a part of our special oligarchy.
    Pauline Hanson does the exact same thing and you can bet she’ll be in the docks quicker than you can blink because she’s NOT part of out special oligarchy.

    Of course, if we’re going to be trussed up and whipped for simple speech then it follows that we might as well expend our liberty on actions rather than words. :x

  5. KG says:
    February 15, 2014 at 07:59

    They’re fond of quoting the U.N. yooman rights charter, so when they try to censor us, this is my answer:
    Article 19.
    Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.