It was Victor Hugo who wrote that ‘an invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted,’
It was Senator Dean Smith (Liberal, WA) who echoed the French poet and novelist’s words, 164 years later, at a book launch in Perth in August. The new book, No Offence Intended: Why 18C is Wrong, slams the pernicious curtailment of free speech under 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act (1975) and calls for action to be taken forthwith.
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