Comments on: 18C: still no answer…writes Tony Burke

By: Ron Burdo

Ron Burdo — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 02:29:19 +0000

If you want kill racism, kill it by education, not by banning legitimate criticism about cultures, religions or other social grouping.

Say no to shutting mouths.
Say no to childish self-victimisation of minorities. Yes, including Jews.
Say no to the current 18C.
Say yes to free speech.

By: dr john nemesh

dr john nemesh — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 07:52:06 +0000

Tony Burke is a leading light of pro Palestinian advocay in a way that is decidedly anti Israel in nature.
The 18c-d issue in my mind cannot be disassociated with his other anti Israel and in my eyes, ant Jewish community activities.

By: Andrew Bolt

Andrew Bolt — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 05:57:54 +0000

Tony Burke makes a false claim against me to justify limiting free debate on racial issues. He says: “In one of the articles, titled ‘It’s so hip to be black’, he individually names several fair-skinned Aboriginal people saying they only claimed their Aboriginal heritage for personal benefit.” I said no such thing. In fact, I wrote in that article that I was NOT doing that. It was the judge who said that “reading between the lines” that I was.

If my articles were not now banned by law – can you believe that? – I would quote from them to show that Burke is also wrong to claim I did not discuss issues of racial identity in them. In fct, that was the whole point and subject matter.

Does he seriously think those articles should have been banned?

I note that Burke lightly skips over the trauma of three Queensland University students who were falsely accused of racism under the law and sued for $250,000 for pointing out that having Aboriginal-only computers at their university was racial segregation.

Burke claims they won, so what? But they lost – lost nights of sleep, lost reputation and in one cast lost more than $40,000 of legal bills. Their lawyers, working pro-bono, lost countless hours of their time.

And note: the lawyers working for the complainant thought this case was a strong one under this law. The Human Rights Commission thought it worth proceeding with under this law. And the staffer who sued the innocent students thought the law would enable her to get $250,000 from them.

Burke also overlooks three other students who were sued by the staffer under this same law, and – terrified – paid $5000 to the staffer to go away.

Tony, is there really nothing here you think needs changing?

By: Bruce Scott

Bruce Scott — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 04:30:17 +0000

I find Burke to always be a bog standard disingenuous leftist ideologue, who can never be trusted with the National Security of this Nation. 25 years ago, was a different world, which has no bearing on today. 18c as it is must go, or our individual freedom and democracy will faint away far too quickly.

By: Leon Poddebsky

Leon Poddebsky — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 00:38:12 +0000

Leading members of his party constantly abuse, insult, lie, incite against the Jewish nation-state and its people.
Most Australians recognise hollow hypocritical grandstanding.