The Abbott Government has promised to amend the Racial Discrimination Act by repealing section 18C, which makes it unlawful for someone to publicly "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" a person or a group of people.He said the Government is acting in the interests of free speech.
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"People do have a right to be bigots you know," [George Brandis, Attorney-General] told the Senate.
"In a free country people do have rights to say things that other people find offensive or insulting or bigoted."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-24/brandis-defends-right-to-be-a-bigot/5341552
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/george-brandis-people-have-the-right-to-be-bigots
ROLL CALL
Spoiler:
PERTH
Vivixenne, Blake T, Butler, Waka Laka, Kincaid, Dublo7, chrishallettbunchanumbers, BigKev, noobert, AJR, flynnie, Dhalphir, desperaterobots, PixelMonkey, Tallweirdo, Tef, Anzekay, Samuelson, RocketScience, CuZZa, webofink, EmbracethePing, Vegemyte
SYDNEY
Oden, Air, Tweaked_Bat_, bsjezz, Prohass, Gatsby, Ambassador, TrueHereticX, TheSquid, Flay, HyperBallad, Jintor, Seguer, Aegeri, stimtokolos, Lalabox, pimento
MELBOURNE
Synthetic Orange, Cyvros, YaYa, grug, ruzkin, Mr Fuzzbutt, Hitsuraptor, LaCabra, The Boy Satellite, Unlucky, SorC, Cobalt60
BRISBANE
Flyingman, Avicus, SwissLion, Crimson King, joshua11, Lorahalo, PaperLuigi44
CANBERRA
The Black Hunter, marty_0001, Chronocide
OTHER NEAT PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA
- Glorfindel (Gold Coast)
- bezerk bob (Toowoomba)
- Veldrin (Darwin)
ACTUAL AUSTRALIANS WHO ARE NOT IN AUSTRALIA (BUT PROBABLY WISH THEY WERE)
- tynic
- Tube
- #pipe
2011 HONORARY AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
- Wimble
2012 HONORARY AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
- Wimble
AWESOME KIWIS WHO ARE AWESOME
- Fishman
- lonelyahava
- KiraKiraKira
- Fletcher
- Katat
- L|ama
Vivixenne, Blake T, Butler, Waka Laka, Kincaid, Dublo7, chrishallettbunchanumbers, BigKev, noobert, AJR, flynnie, Dhalphir, desperaterobots, PixelMonkey, Tallweirdo, Tef, Anzekay, Samuelson, RocketScience, CuZZa, webofink, EmbracethePing, Vegemyte
SYDNEY
Oden, Air, Tweaked_Bat_, bsjezz, Prohass, Gatsby, Ambassador, TrueHereticX, TheSquid, Flay, HyperBallad, Jintor, Seguer, Aegeri, stimtokolos, Lalabox, pimento
MELBOURNE
Synthetic Orange, Cyvros, YaYa, grug, ruzkin, Mr Fuzzbutt, Hitsuraptor, LaCabra, The Boy Satellite, Unlucky, SorC, Cobalt60
BRISBANE
Flyingman, Avicus, SwissLion, Crimson King, joshua11, Lorahalo, PaperLuigi44
CANBERRA
The Black Hunter, marty_0001, Chronocide
OTHER NEAT PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA
- Glorfindel (Gold Coast)
- bezerk bob (Toowoomba)
- Veldrin (Darwin)
ACTUAL AUSTRALIANS WHO ARE NOT IN AUSTRALIA (BUT PROBABLY WISH THEY WERE)
- tynic
- Tube
- #pipe
2011 HONORARY AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
- Wimble
2012 HONORARY AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR
- Wimble
AWESOME KIWIS WHO ARE AWESOME
- Fishman
- lonelyahava
- KiraKiraKira
- Fletcher
- Katat
- L|ama
And, introducing the 2013 Honorary Australian of the Year, which is a title of absolutely no value and chosen only by me:
@Wimble
AGAIN. But only because @lonelyahava is a Kiwi and that's a disqualification for this completely pointless award.