The draft Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012

By on December 22, 2012 in Liberal democracy, Personal liberties

anti-discrimination_subThe government’s exposure draft of the Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill 2012 is major threat to freedom of speech and thought. Here’s the IPA’s submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee inquiry into this deeply dangerous piece of legislation.

As we argue, “In a very real sense, these laws are not anti-discrimination laws. They are laws designed to give the government authority over our lives in completely new and unjustifiable arenas. This is an excessive and indefensible increase in state power.”

We’ve also produced a one-page fact sheet into this radical piece of legislation, available here.

About Chris Berg

Chris Berg is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs. He is a regular columnist with the Sunday Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and ABC's The Drum, covering cultural, political and economic issues. He is an award-winning former editor of the IPA Review. His latest book is In Defence of Freedom of Speech: from Ancient Greece to Andrew Bolt. A monograph, The Growth of Australia's Regulatory State, was published in 2008. He is also the editor of 100 Great Books of Liberty (with John Roskam) published by Connor Court Publishing in 2010, and The National Curriculum: A Critique (2011).
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