In January, the leader of the opposition supported federal laws relating to the display of terrorist symbols. This week, he wants the book thrown at protesters. So what gives?
Does Peter Dutton read the legislation he votes for? This week he is outraged at the thought that protestersand photos of its slain leader Hassan Nasrallah may not automatically have committed a federal crime. Here, he’s referring to laws passed in January, which ban the display of Nazi and terrorist symbols.
It isn’t hiding, either. It’s not in some obscure nook or cranny. It is right there, clear as day, in the very section that creates the offence in the first place . In fact, it’s there twice: once in relation to terrorist symbols and once in relation to Nazi ones. When it came to vilifying racial minorities, they weren’t upset there was a threshold before an offence could be made out. They were upset that the threshold was too easy to reach. For them, the offence simply shouldn’t have existed.Clearly, the Coalition has lost its appetite for free-speech absolutism. I’m far from the first to observe that when it comes to the carnage in the Middle East this past year, nearly everyone seems to have reversed their positions on speech.
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