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Enforcing Tolerance: Vilification Laws and Religious Freedom in Australia |
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Professor Patrick Parkinson is one of the most renowned legal academics and practitioners
in Australia. He is the Head of School at the Faculty of Law at Sydney University and well
respected in Government for his contributions to family law in particular. In late 2004 he
produced a paper for presentation at an international legal conference examining the
Victorian law in detail, and registering all the concerns for it that we hold. (You can
find this paper, ‘Enforcing Tolerance’, at www.acl.org.au)
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Quotes and Extracts re: Victorian Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, 2001 |
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"All these anti-vilification laws have achieved is to provide a legalistic
weapon by which religious groups can silence their ideological opponents, rather
than engaging in debate and discussion...Who, after all, would give credence to a
religion that appears so fragile it can only exist if protected by a bodyguard of
lawyers?"
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Andrew
Bolt exposes Victorian Government Plans on Religious Tolerance
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"Andrew Bolt
has written a strong article exposing and criticising the
government's plans to make the Racial and Religious Tolerance
Act tougher
- not amend it to remove the 'flaws'."
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