Free speech, toleration and equal respect: the Bolt affair in context

Title: Free speech, toleration and equal respect: the Bolt affair in context
Creator: Tate, John William
Relation: Australian Journal of Political Science Vol. 51, Issue 1, p. 34-50
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2015.1093092
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2016
Description: It is a rare moment when free speech becomes a potent political issue within the Australian polity. But the Andrew Bolt affair, the Abbott government's subsequent move to repeal §18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), and its ultimate abandonment of this reform, is one of those moments. This article seeks to place these political events in a broader political and philosophical context, investigating how the conflicts and tensions to which these events gave rise can be understood in terms of competing perspectives within a wider liberal tradition, producing rival imperatives centred on free speech and equal respect. The differing priorities which these competing liberal perspectives placed on free speech and equal respect give rise to two very different conceptions of toleration, and its application within liberal democracies.
Subject: liberalism; democracy; multiculturalism; <i>Racial Discrimination Act</i>
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1323503
Identifier: uon:24824
Identifier: ISSN:1036-1146
Language: eng
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