It was good to see the government’s decision to amend Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, as the reforms will strike a neat balance between freedom of speech on the one hand and a reasonable embargo against racial vilification on the other. Part of my elation at the proposal is due to the fact that I proposed the same thing in a paper I circulated a few weeks ago; well, I proposed the same thing with an additional reform that the government did not pick up, namely trial by jury for alleged breaches of the Act.
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