How Abbotts proposed changes to the RDA works Australian of the Year Adam Goodes would have had no cause to point out the fan who called him an ape under the proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act. According to Amnesty International Australia’s legal spokeswoman Katie Wood, the Sydney Swans star “wouldn’t be able to make a complaint under the new proposal” if he was racially vilified like he was during the AFL’s Indigenous round last year. “It would be a bit tricky,” Ms Wood told news.au. “An ordinary person sitting on a bus who is racially vilified by somebody random wouldn’t have that spotlight available to them. That’s why it’s important that they have the opportunity to make a complaint through the Racial Discrimination Act.” The draft proposes to repeal Section 18C of the Act, which makes it unlawful for someone to “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate” a person based on the colour of their skin or their cultural background. Within that section, the government wants to remove the words “offend, insult and humiliate”, while retaining “intimidate” and adding “vilify”. Along with removing Section 18C, other sections are out to get cut, including 18D, which protects freedom of speech.Section 18B, which allows race or colour as cause for hate speech, and 18E are also in the firing line. . Read the full story here: goo.gl/dW0lWp
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 22:25:17 +0000
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