Albo’s hate speech laws are the biggest attack on free speech since Menzies tried to ban the Communist Party in the 1950s. By Nationals Senator Matt Canavan, on the Today show, quoted by Thomas Henry in The Australian.
I read the bill last night and I can’t support these laws. (It’s) the biggest attack on free speech since Robert Menzies tried to ban the Communist Party in the 1950s …
The government’s facing a lot of criticism, rightly in my view, about its migration policies. And there’s no doubt in my mind that under these laws, legitimate criticism of migration policies, integration (in our) country, maintaining the Australian way of life could easily be construed as somehow a racist attack, and you could be prosecuted. …
The proposed laws are undemocratic, unconstitutional and so vague that they could easily be used to unjustly silence legitimate criticism of government policy …
Rammed through without discussion:
These proposed laws were only released today and the government plans to force them through parliament in just a week. Labor is giving people just three days to comment on the laws. It is a mockery of our democratic process.
The Australian government plans to make “Islamophobia” punishable by up to 5 years in prison with new hate speech laws rushed in after the Bondi jihadist terrorist attack.
This is legitimately stunning. Two jihadists massacred 15 people and their response is to make it illegal to criticise Islamic extremism.
Censorship is the tool to use when the lie loses its power.
hat-tip Scott of the Pacific