No "compromise". It has to go. It is totalitarian, enacted by totalitarians. There is no place in a democracy for such oppression of free speech. However, is Australia any longer a demacracy? Can white Australians expect fair treatment any longer? The self-loathing elites have the power - the "Anti Australian Axis", as they are described by David Flint in 'Give Us Back Our Country'.

I called a mate an old bastard a few weeks ago, when I ran into him at our local CBD, whereupon he produced a card proving him to be a fully paid up card carrying member of the old bastards club!

!8C needs to be seen in the contexts or normal social convention/mores and the any reasonable person test, then kept!

I'm planning to have a few cards printed for an old black bastards club, and lifetime membership is offered at just fifty dollars a card, and a bargain, given what it allows you to call other card carrying members &%#(*)+@! and get away with?

And plan to follow that with a stupid pom's club? Or effing nuggets? Brain dead old bar steward etc? And am open to suggestions with a fifty dollar tellers cheque, money order? A box number in a distant town, soon to be available.

We can be a little too precious here and start seeing offense and insult in normal strine!

Like someone confecting intended abuse at the sight of Coon labeled cheese, not understanding that the label originated with the founder Dr. Coon, of said cheese factory fame, way back in the distant past, well before some local yokels adopted it as a regionally specific derogatory term!

That said, no harm would ensue, if we saw 18C in the light of being allowed to unintentionally offend?

As may well be par for the course, in a multi ethnic community?

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater for heaven's sake!
Alan B.

fixing 18C won't do much unless you start to defund the victimhood industry. Isn't Triggs being paid over 300000 per year to conjure up false images and demonise white men. The leftist thugs protesting against Trump by beating pregnant women and others have this permanent victimhood status mentality. Gillard after making 'naive' choices throughout her life and then running a total incompetent Government still believes she was/is a victim.

" That said, no harm would ensue, if we saw 18C in the light of being allowed to unintentionally offend?"

The author of the article left out s18C(1)(b):
" (b) the act is done because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the other person or of some or all of the people in the group."

That implies intentional offence.

(And no one ever quote s18D.)

It's odd that the libel law, which so many thin-skinned politicians use for personal enrichment, is ignored when the issue of freedom of speech is raised. A campaign for the right to hurl insults at others doesn't seem likely to gain widespread, passionate support.

Hear, hear and well said Mayan!
Alan B.

Turnbull should introduce Legislation to delete 18c immediately.

Then we shall see who opposes it and thus are supporters of hounding Students and Cartoonists..