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Fool’s gold

The Australian Law Reform Commission is wrong.

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

12 March 2016

9:00 AM

On March 3rd the President of the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC), Professor Rosalind Croucher, wrote an opinion piece in the Australian commenting upon that body’s recently released report ‘Traditional Rights and Freedoms – Encroachments by Commonwealth Laws’. A fair few people on the side of more free speech (including this magazine’s editor) have interpreted this ALRC report as being a positive step on the road to fixing free speech in this country.

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