🚨 Stop Albo Criminalising Free Speech 🚨
Federal parliament has been recalled early to consider a 144-page Censorship Bill as a purported response to the Bondi terrorist attack against the Jewish community.
This legislation seeks to mimic the UK provisions (where 30 people a day are arrested for social media posts), but with even fewer safeguards. Amongst other things, it includes hate speech laws, which were originally conceived by the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin. As Noam Chomsky once said in relation to these types of laws, it is a poor service to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust to adopt a central doctrine of their murderers’. This isn’t about protecting Jews, but censoring legitimate criticism of the government.
Submissions to a last minute Committee inquiry are due by 4pm on 15 January. We have provided a submission tool below which takes 60 seconds. You can email quickly (this still helps), or to have a bigger impact, edit the individually generated draft and submit as a PDF through the official system. Whatever you do, please act now.
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