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Flat White

How the High Court has endorsed identity politics in Love and Thomas

12 February 2020

7:43 PM

12 February 2020

7:43 PM

On Tuesday the High Court of Australia has handed down a decision that for all intents and purposes looks like the dictionary definition of racism enshrined in law on precedent. In determining that Daniel Love and Brendan Thoms cannot be deported due to the invocation of a new and unprecedented ruling, the High Court has, perhaps unwittingly, although not necessarily so, unlocked a Pandora’s Box of what will now become an era of what I predict will now become the most divisive identity politics yet seen by modern liberal democracies.

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