Professor Adrienne Stone, a constitutional law expert from the University of Melbourne, said she was not convinced the legislation would stand up in court. She said the protests could be seen as a protected form of expression and the legislation might not be constitutional. It focuses really clearly on certain types of workplaces, mining workplaces, forestry workplace, agriculture and food producers, she said. It seems to raise a question in my mind about whether this is absolutely targeted towards the environmental movement and, if the court took that view, it might view it as an unreasonable discrimination amongst protesters. We can but hope!
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:32:59 +0000
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