- Title
- Bill Leak, Andrew Bolt and section 18C: Freedom of speech and the limits of political criticism in Australia
- Creator
- Tate, John
- Relation
- The Western Australian Jurist Vol. 9, p. 130-184
- Publisher
- Western Australian Legal Theory Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- The Bill Leak affair, and prior to that the Andrew Bolt affair, have rendered freedom of speech a contentious political topic in Australia. It has also become an issue of significant parliamentary activity, with both the Abbott Government, and later the Turnbull Government, seeking to make amendments to s 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), in part in response to each of these affairs. This article focuses on both the Leak and Bolt affairs, and their implications for freedom of speech in Australia. It also investigates why affairs such as these often give rise to such unresolved (and unresolvable) disagreement.
- Subject
- freedom of speech; criticism; satire; Australia; politics; government
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1407463
- Identifier
- uon:35729
- Identifier
- ISSN:1839-1117
- Language
- eng
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