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Leading article Australia

We won’t shut up

5 November 2016

9:00 AM

5 November 2016

9:00 AM

The last few weeks – and the last few editions of The Spectator Australia – have seen a flurry of articles and editorials about section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Lest there be any doubt, this magazine will not stop talking about these few sentences of legislation until they are repealed, and until Australians can talk and draw and write and indeed think about controversial issues without the spectre of state sanction.

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