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What part of free speech doesn’t Liberty Victoria understand?

4 May 2017

7:31 AM

4 May 2017

7:31 AM

Liberty Victoria’s decision to reward Gillian Triggs with its annual Voltaire Award is a perfect example of the left’s perverse interpretation of freedom of speech.

Today, the Victorian “civil liberties” advocacy organisation had this to say about Gillian Triggs, who as President of the Australian Human Rights Commission since 2012 has overseen some of the worst known abuses of section 18C:

This year’s Voltaire salutes Professor Triggs for her courageous stand on people’s rights, especially free speech.

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