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Gillian Triggs deceived and now defames
Human Rights Commission boss Gillian Triggs - who has already admitted to misleading Parliament - also told a rank untruth about the Queensland students she helped to persecute. And is now faces legal action for defaming them as well.
Enoch is wrong, which is why I cannot show you
Palaszczuk Government Minister Leeanne Enoch claims the Racial Discrimination Act still allows free speech. False. Legal action she took means I cannot legally republish the article I wrote to show that I did not see about her what she now suggests.
Albrechtsen to Turnbull: please lead
Malcolm Turnbull had two options with the debate on restoring free speech. He could be dragged to it kicking and screaming, or he could have led it, thus honoring a promise, defending a principle and showing strength. He chose wrong again, and Janet Albrechtsen is not impressed.
Sure, attack Triggs. But, PM, what about your law?
I am all for criticising Gillian Triggs over her record for bias and untruths. But Malcolm Turnbull attacking her - inaccurately - for administering the Racial Discrimination Act is like a government blaming the warders for building the jails and passing the laws that filled them.
On my shows tonight - Pauline Hanson and Australia's Donald Trump
On The Bolt Report on Sky at 7pm: Pauline Hanson, after voting against her own Senator Rod Culleton today. Is One Nation falling apart? Plus Peta Credlin on Donald Trump - and who will be Australia's version. And my say about the Aboriginal woman who got the Human Rights Commission to drag in cartoonist Bill Leak.
Turnbull, arriving late to free speech, slaps Triggs
On the ABC Malcolm Turnbull today still refused to argue for change to the Racial Discrimination Act, although said he'd like others to agree on any changes. Weak. But he did at least slap the Human Rights Commission of Gillian Triggs, saying it had wasted its time on a complaint against seven students.
Carr and Frydenberg call for free speech reform
Important interventions today in the fight for free speech: from Labor's Bob Carr and from Turnbull Government Minister Josh Frydenberg, ahead of all the other Liberal frontbenchers in calling for change.
The politics of race: look, but do not comment
The Age runs a picture of Aborigines 181 years ago selling land to John Batman, founder of Melbourne. It then runs another picture of Australians identifying as Aborigines this week demanding another treaty. The Racial Discrimination Act prevents a frank discussion of the merits of their demands. You may observe but not comment.
A list of the media's enemies of free speech
One of the most alarming things about our laws against free speech is that so many journalists, journalism academics and writers support them. These are also the kind of people allergic to truth-telling about totemic issues of the Left. Now you can read the names of 173 people who actually want Bill Leak's cartoon banned.
Where did Turnbull, the free speech warrior, go?
Piers Akerman remembers when Malcolm Turnbull was quite the crusader for free speech. Guess he listens too much to the ABC campaigning against it. Hope he's listening instead today to Minister Josh Frydenberg.
Wicked law stops me answering this Aborigine's complaint
The sinister Racial Discrimination Act makes it dangerous to argue against identity politics and the new push to racially divide us. It also makes it too dangerous to discuss frankly the absurdity of this Aboriginal woman getting the Human Rights Commission to investigate cartoonist Bill Leak to shut him up, too, for alleged racism.
How could Gillian Triggs have backed this insanity? UPDATED
One astonishing thing about the disgraceful attempt by a university staffer to sue students under the Racial Discrimination Act is that Gillian Triggs and her Human Rights Commission aided what was clearly a stupid and hopeless case. Check what a judge has now found.
How activists use Aborigines to censor debate
This is both shocking yet unsurprising: claims that white activists recruited Aborigines to complain against cartoonist Bill Leak so they could help the Human Rights Commission to close him down.
Why can't this gormless Government defend free speech?
Sociologist John Carroll is by no means a man of the Right. But he can say what this timid and clueless and weak "Liberal" Government dare not about free speech. And he knows the Turnbull Government is protecting the enemies of our freedom.
ABC's Jonathan Green backs attempts to censor cartoonist
ABC presenter Jonathan Green's exchange with Gay Alcorn over attempts to silence cartoonist Bill Leak demonstrates two things: how dangerously keen many journalists are to censor others, particularly conservatives, and how truly terrible Green is at arguing a case.
Brisbane "race hate" three: case finally dismissed
A Federal Court judge has finally ended a three-year nightmare for three Queensland University of Technology students sued for $250,000 under the Racial Discrimination Act. He has said the case cannot proceed. No word yet on the case against the university and two staff.
Will the other three students get their $5000 back?
After three years, the Federal Court today stopped three Queensland students from being sued for $250,000 under the Racial Discrimination Act for complaining that reserving university computers for Aborigines was racist. But three other students paid the complainant $5000 each to stop her suing them, too. Do they get a refund?
Just say nothing, Bill
Caroline Overington is right. Bill Leak should refuse to defend his cartoon to the Human Rights Commission, which has given him two weeks to come up with excuses. How dare this commission ask a cartoonist to defend his right to draw?
The war on free speech reaches its Stalingrad
A court may today finally end the nightmare for three students sued under the Racial Discrimination Act for complaining about racism - while the case against cartoonist Bill Leak gets even more stupid. The Human Rights Commission and other enemies of free speech may finally be smashed.
"Demented":John Howard damns persecution of Bill Leak
John Howard has attacked the Human Rights Commission and the Race Discrimination Act it's using for its "demented" persecution of Bill Leak. We cannot have laws that stifle debate like this.
Keryn Pholi: is it 'coz I'm black?
Kerryn Pholi wonders why she's not sued by the offence-takers along with Bill Leak. Perhaps she should herself sue the Racial Discrimination Commissioner for offending Aborigines like her with their patronising ways. Meanwhile, even Stan Grant has a few doubts about our disturbing law against free speech.
Nothing is funny to the censors of the Left
Tim Dick, columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, now approves of the use of the Racial Discrimination Act to censor cartoonist Bill Leak on the grounds that Leak's "crime is not being funny".
Warren Mundine: reform the Racial Discrimination Act now
No, it's not just "privileged" whites and "racists" who say the Racial Discrimination Act is an outrageous restriction on free speech that stifles important debate on Aboriginal welfare and the politics of race. Now the head of the Prime Minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, Warren Mundine, agrees.
Halloween at the HR
Rowan Dean has wonderful tips for celebrating Halloween at the Human Rights Commission wonderworld. For instance, you can carve your own soutpumpkinase!
Spectator Australia is out now. Buy!
Plenty of great reading again in the latest Spectator Australia, out now.
Most Australians defend the Queensland three
How sick that 21 per cent of Australians are so intolerant, punitive and contemptuous of free speech that they still think three university students complaining against segregation should be sued for $250,000. Thank God the majority of those surveyed, though, know that the Racial Discrimination Act is a menace that needs reform.
A topic too dangerous to discuss
An idiotic meme of journalists opposing any change to the Racial Discrimination Act is to ask what it is that free-speech campaigners want to say that they can't now, as if it could only be abuse. But reading this piece about me I can think of several important things the law makes too dangerous to say in reply. Which is why comments are banned.
Where are the cartoonists to defend Leak?
Cartoonist John Spooner is astonished that so few fellow cartoonists have the courage or integrity to defend Bill Leak from the censor's eraser. And he disagrees with me on the best way for Leak to defend himself. (UPDATE: Another cartoonist attacked.)
The Australian shouldn't "justify" Leak's cartoon
The problem with The Australian's defence of Bill Leak's cartoon is that it already cedes the right to the censors to delete cartoons and articles they think are not justified. I'd prefer the lawyers to offer no defence but the defence of free speech in a free society.
Bill Leak right, says top cop
Bill Leak drew an Aboriginal drunk who did not remember his son's name. SBS told Leak to f... himself. The Race Discrimination Commission branded him a racist. Now the Human Rights Commission is investigating him. But WA's top police officer says the cartoon is an "accurate reflection" of reality - and has the evidence.
Tim Wilson: 90 seconds on free speech
Liberal MP Tim Wilson takes just 90 seconds to explain why the wicked Racial Discrimination Act must be changed to stop it from being used as a weapon to censor debate.
Why doesn't Turnbull say "je suis Bill Leak"?
Remember the crowds last year claiming to be appalled by the massacre of four cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris? Remember their chant of protest at the slaughter of those cartoonists and eight others by Islamists upset by their drawings? “Je suis Charlie” — I am Charlie — they lied.
Steyn: where are the Liberals to defend Leak?
The great Mark Steyn is appalled that Liberals -even those who say they're his fans - now won't defend the free speech of Bill Leak. And he's right: Leak should not defend the rightness of his cartoon but attack the foulness of those wanting to shut him up.
Mr Turnbull, tear down this law
The Turnbull Government and the Human Rights Commission should know that attacking Bill Leak's right to draw is the last straw for News Corp. Today's editorial in The Australian is a declaration of war: the wicked Racial Discrimination Act that has already silenced and cowed too many must change. Leak will be defended to the last.
Tips for Tuesday, October 18
Say it here. And my editorial from The Bolt Report: Malcolm Turnbull said "Je suis Charlie" when French cartoonists were persecuted. Why does he not now say "Je suis Bill Leak"?
Je suis Bill Leak: where is the Left now?
Tony Abbott damns the laws that now have cartoonist Bill Leak being taken to the Human Rights Commission - but where is the Left that once cried "Je suis Charlie"? I said then that they were lying. UPDATE: Leak is my guest on tonight's The Bolt Report.
Bill Leak latest victim of wicked race law
First two of my own articles were banned. Then seven Queensland students were sued by a staffer at their university for complaining that Aboriginal-only computers were racist. And now cartoonist Bill Leak is being attacked under this same wicked Racial Discrimination Act.
Are these students for real with these "trigger warnings"?
La Trobe University’s student union is either proving it is intellectually bankrupt with its list of "trigger warnings" to be issued before debates, or it is brilliantly parodying this modern and militant anti-intellectualism. Judge for yourself:
Mad to be muzzled by people like this
There are just three likely reasons Australians now pay professional bullies to stop them saying what they please and reading what they like.
Polite disagreement is now "hate speech"
"Hate speech" is now one of the most dishonest phrases in the mouths of the Left. A Greens Senator has proved that "hate speech" is just saying no to the Left's agenda - especially on same-sex marriage. Check out this sign:
Trigger warning proves this uni is shot
How stupid, how feeble - and how much of a precursor to censorship - is this sign at the Hofstra University, warning nervous students who might be shocked to see a TV screen showing Donald Trump debate Hillary Clinton?
Je suis Hattar: Jordanian writer shot
Jordan's government should have defended writer Nahed Hattar, not attacked his right to comment and made him such a target for Muslim totalitarians. But now Hatter is just the latest to die for simply publishing a cartoon.
Shameful law means you can't comment on this
On repeated legal advice, I cannot comment because of the Racial Discrimination Act. To protect ourselves, we must stop you from commenting here, too. But don't you think it's obscene to have laws making it too dangerous to discuss how a woman had her alleged Aboriginality first accepted and then denied?
Printer bans book against gay marriage
First two commercial TV stations banned an ad backing traditional marriage. Then a Catholic Archbishop was taken to the Tasmanian Anti-Discrimination Commission for defending traditional marriage. Next, a meeting of Christian was bombarded with threats, forcing its cancellation. Now a printer refuses to print a book against same-sex marriage:
A call to Jews: free speech must save you
I spoke at the WIZO charity breakfast and warned the Jewish community that government is no longer their ally. The politics of multiculturalism means Jews now lose. Their tribe is too small. Free speech is now critical to defend themselves. And, thank heavens, Australian Jewish News publisher Robert Magid agrees. (UPDATE: Video fixed.)
Hate-preaching ABC viewers abuse ABC for allowing debate
ABC viewers are so used to having the ABC exclude conservatives that they explode with anger when one is allowed onto the state broadcaster we all pay for. Here is some of the abuse after I appeared on ABC Radio National Breakfast this morning to argue that changing the constitution to divide us by race is, er, racist and dangerous.
How dare the ABC let a white man speak?
The taxpayer-funded Conversation attacks me as too white to be allowed to speak in an ABC documentary. It also attacks the documentary and complains the recognition debate is dominated by (white) men, even though our documentary is directed by a woman, co-stars a woman and interviews four women.
This monstrous law must go
Barrister Louise Clegg says the clock is ticking on a wicked law used to persecute seven Queensland students.
Baldwin: how my Left is killing civilisation
Peter Baldwin was a Left-wing Labor minister. But now the Left has changed into a neo-fascist force that promotes racism, anti-Semitism and a violent intolerance of debate. Baldwin unleashes.
Don't dare answer. The Racial Discrimination Act forbids debate
It is not very brave for an article on the interestingly broad definition of "Aboriginal" to present a range of faces and ask: "Which face belongs to an Aboriginal woman?" In fact the law permits only one answer, with those who dissent facing prosecution.
Mikey Cahill
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