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Attack the 18C disease, not the symptoms

Conservative commentators railing against the latest aggrieved and offended victim are missing the real target

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

13 February 2016

9:00 AM

Thanks to a petty official in a politically-correct administrative unit buried deep in the bowels of the Queensland University of Technology, there’s been yet another periodic eruption of that Vesuvius of conservative causes, section 18C of the Race Discrimination Act.

This time, it wasn’t a column by Andrew Bolt that led to trouble at t’race relations mill.

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Terry Barnes is a regular contributor and former adviser to Tony Abbott

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