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Religious Discrimination Bill Has Many Problems And Could Be A Risk To Religious Freedom

Religious Discrimination Bill Has Many Problems And Could Be A Risk To Religious Freedom

Morgan Begg 29 August 2019 Constitution and law, Freedom of speech,

“The federal government’s plan to prohibit religious discrimination is a welcome start, but more work is needed to avoid counter-productive and unintended consequences which may limit rather than...

Opinion
Why Abolish 18C? Consider This Vexatious Complaint’s Threat To Free Speech

Why Abolish 18C? Consider This Vexatious Complaint’s Threat To Free Speech

Simon Breheny 28 September 2017 Constitution and law, Freedom of speech,

When the legal affairs editor of this paper, Chris Merritt, sent a carefully worded reply on March 9 to an email he had received two days earlier, that should have been the end of a matter...

Originally appeared in The Australian
Opinion
Hello Triggs-Lite, Goodbye Free Speech

Hello Triggs-Lite, Goodbye Free Speech

Morgan Begg 22 June 2017 Freedom of speech, Ipa today,

It’s clear now that the Coalition government is not only uninterested in the idea of restructuring the bureaucracy, but it also is not even interested in making decent appointments. The...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Media Releases
Triggs-Lite Appointment A Disgrace

Triggs-Lite Appointment A Disgrace

Morgan Begg 20 June 2017 Freedom of speech, Ipa today,

“The federal government’s decision to appoint Rosalind Croucher as the next President of the Australian Human Rights Commission represents a failure to defend fundamental human rights in...

Hardly On The Hunt For Facts

Matthew Lesh 18 June 2017 Freedom of speech, Ideas and liberty,

The ABC and the Australian Human Rights Commission have teamed up with far-left student activists for a blatant propaganda campaign about campus sexual assault and harassment. Tomorrow the ABC is...

Originally appeared in The Australian
Opinion
Filling Triggs’ Shoes

Filling Triggs’ Shoes

Morgan Begg 3 June 2017 Freedom of speech, Ipa today,

The Human Rights Commission’s selective agenda does not include the protection of fundamental human rights like freedom of speech. For that reason alone, it must be abolished. But while the...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Opinion
What Part Of Free Speech Doesn’t Liberty Victoria Understand?

What Part Of Free Speech Doesn’t Liberty Victoria Understand?

Morgan Begg 4 May 2017 Freedom of speech, Ipa today,

Liberty Victoria’s decision to reward Gillian Triggs with its annual Voltaire Award is a perfect example of the left’s perverse interpretation of freedom of speech. Today, the Victorian “civil...

Originally appeared in The Spectator Australia
Return of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill?

Return of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill?

Morgan Begg 23 March 2017 Freedom of speech, Ipa today,

Chris Merritt in The Australian today reporting on the ALP’s plan to resurrect the Gillard government’s failed attempt to consolidate federal anti-discrimination laws in 2012: Mr Dreyfus has...

Opinion
Section 18C Of The Racial Discrimination Act Will Be Repealed

Section 18C Of The Racial Discrimination Act Will Be Repealed

Simon Breheny 3 March 2017 Ideas and liberty, Ipa today,

Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act will be repealed. It won’t happen today, and it may not happen in this term of parliament. But section 18C has become such an iconic issue for...

Originally appeared in The Australian
Opinion
Fake News Meets 18C

Fake News Meets 18C

Morgan Begg 1 March 2017 Freedom of speech, Ipa today,

Earlier this month Professor Andrew Jakubowitz of the taxpayer-created Cyber Racism and Community Resilience Research Group attempted to debunk a poll commissioned by the IPA showing a plurality...

Originally appeared in The Spectator
Media Releases
Free Speech Inquiry Disappoints In Failing To Recommend 18C Repeal

Free Speech Inquiry Disappoints In Failing To Recommend 18C Repeal

Simon Breheny 28 February 2017 Constitution and law, Freedom of speech,

“It is disappointing that the human rights committee has today failed to recommend the complete repeal of 18C as an option for reform in its freedom of speech inquiry report tabled...

Media Releases
Taxpayer Funded Submissions Distort Inquiry As Racial Hatred Claims Blowout

Taxpayer Funded Submissions Distort Inquiry As Racial Hatred Claims Blowout

Simon Breheny 28 February 2017 Constitution and law, Freedom of speech,

“Contributions to public debate from taxpayer-funded, ideologically-biased groups distort the public policy process,” says Simon Breheny, Director of Policy at free-market think tank...

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New research released today by free market think tank the Institute of Public Affairs has found that the bottom fifth of income earners saw over half a million jobs disappear because of lockdowns...

Constitutional Ban On Fracking Autocratic, Illiberal and Undemocratic
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The state government’s attempt to impose a constitutional ban on fracking is an unprecedented attack on democracy. No policy restriction like this exists in the Victorian constitution. Never...

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