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Free speech is too important to be trusted to lawyers

28 August 2016

5:06 PM

28 August 2016

5:06 PM

On last week’s Q&A, comedian turned mature age law student Corinne Grant shed light on perhaps the most compelling reason why 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act must be repealed: free speech is too important to be left in the hands of courtrooms and self-regarding elites.

According to Grant, we should have no qualms that four students have spent years facing down a six figure law suit that could end with the Federal Court labelling them racists for criticising their university’s racially segregated computer labs.

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