The repeal of Section 18C arises particularly out of the 2011 prosecution of Andrew Bolt, a columnist for News Limited, publisher of The Australian, for violating the so-called hate-speech laws.
Section 18C states that it is unlawful for a person to “offend offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person or a group of people… because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin.”
A Federal Court judge found he had breached the Racial Discrimination Act because a pair of articles he wrote were not written in good faith and contained factual errors.
And, the judge said, the articles would have offended a reasonable member of the Aboriginal community. [x]
Getting into trouble for racism? Simple, just remove the laws making it illegal. Problem solving: Abbott style.
God, I hate this man.
What a pile of rotten molars.
Every time abbott opens his mouth. I just want to punch him in the face and wipe that smug look off his freaking face.