The Australian has published an excellent editorial today, poking fun at the Gillard government’s proposed changes to anti-discrimination law:
In our vibrant democracy, even from the fragile disposition of this national broadsheet, we must accept that the contest of ideas and the struggle for power will lead to occasional bouts of such intemperate verbal jousting. We beg forgiveness for having the temerity to point this out but the Attorney-General perhaps needs to be careful that her own legislative activism doesn’t jeopardise these exchanges, or at the very least expose future participants in such debates to endless return exchanges in the courts.
It’s certainly worth a read.
About Simon Breheny
Simon Breheny is Director of the Legal Rights Project at the Institute of Public Affairs. Simon has been published in the Australian, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Herald Sun, the Punch and the Canberra Times and is regularly interviewed on radio in relation to legal rights and rule of law issues. He also recently appeared before the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security to give evidence on the government’s contentious data retention proposal. Simon is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Laws at the University of Melbourne. While completing his studies, Simon was elected President of the Melbourne University Law Students’ Society and appointed Vice-President of the Victorian Council of Law Students’ Societies.
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