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5 November 2016

9:00 AM

5 November 2016

9:00 AM

And they wonder why their supporters are deserting them…

The whole 18C hate-speech saga is now verging on the pathetic. By that I mean that our supposed right-of-centre political parties, the Libs and the Nats, confronted with a feral Human Rights Commission and the use of this 18C law to go after three QUT students and this country’s premier political cartoonist, have done nothing.

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