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Does Daniel Andrews have new bars on free speech coming?

19 April 2021

4:00 AM

19 April 2021

4:00 AM

In 2018 a Scottish comedian was convicted of a hate crime after filming his girlfriend’s pug performing the Nazi salute and putting it on YouTube. 

In Canada recently, a man was reportedly jailed for contempt of court for refusing to stop talking about his son’s gender transition and referring to him as “she” and “her”.

Now I need to say that I do not endorse misgendering people or teaching dogs to do Nazi salutes – but getting the government involved in this is a road to madness. 

But buckle up, because it looks like at least one Australian state might be about to...

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