A lot more than a “few” of us are well aware that freedom of speech - and democracy itself - is under threat in Australia. And the reason? Australian politicians are in thrall to the lunatic Left. In fact, more and more politicians are of the lunatic Left, no matter what the call themselves.

Yes. 18c should be repealed, but the lunatic Left will see that it is not.

Offence-takers and deliberate victims should just be ignored.

The the third bill will not get off the ground. The press is disgrace, and is held in contempt by most people.

But, given the unpopularity of this senator, and the thuggery that his bills will be met with from the lunatic left (which now has crept into the Liberal party) he is wasting his time.

Great that we have at least one politician prepared to stand up for our liberties. It is shameful that a liberal government has been unable or unwilling to remove s18C despite being in power for several years. It seems the two main parties are in lock step when it comes to freedom of speech issues.

I can see grounds for a bill of rights that include the right to free speech, David. But not the grab bag of barely veiled risible rubbish that allegedly supports it, espoused here.

Paliamarterians like yourself can say almost anything in the coward's castle of parliament, which you have used entirely unsparingly with your unwarranted attack on the moral values (none of your business sir) Senator Hansen Young and the number of men she may or may not sleep with.

You should man up, apologise and withdraw!

Certainly never ever post something like this to preach to your homophobic xenophobic support base?

To what end?

Possibly extend your time there and the comfortable salary you'd miss as another old and opinionated hasbeen?

If you really want to get up the Honourable Senator's nose sir?

Suggest you mount a spirited and drawn out campaign for (carbon-free) MSR thorium and Power prices as low 2 cents per KwH!

Through that, for the hundreds of currently sacrificed lives that regularly exceed the annual road toll. Be they those facing death sentence cancer like ovarian or brain cancer.

These two have remained stubbornly high for the last three decades and the annual death toll from curable (just not here) cancer, with the expert application of alpha particle isotope bismuth 213.

which is attached to a specific antibody, that then destroys the cancer cells and in minutes, without significantly harming adjacent healthy cells.

Bismuth 213 is the nuclear decay product of U233. We only get U233 from the nuclear conversion of thorium.

Now extremely limited! Because of asinine prohibition!

Suggest you wedge the good senator on ovarian cancer, her and her party's stubborn obtuse resistance to MR thorium and through that, the only pathway to the manufacture of, miracle cancer cure, bismuth 213!

Proven effective against even death sentence stage four ovarian cancer in 2006 European treatment trials, OVER TWO DECADES AGO!

Green resistance condemning hundred to an entirely unnecessary premature and horrible death! For which she and her party of moribund misfits advocate euthanasia!
As their only preferred solution!?
Alan B.

what on earth would our 400000 dollar a year Human Rights Commissioner do if he/she could not search desperately for white male 'racist'. The victim industry would be dealt a major blow should we get rid of 18C. The real victims like uni students who just want to use a computer (but banned because they were white) might avoid such witch hunts and Bill Leak who was 'investigated' for making a valid point about fatherless Indigeneous kids might even be alive today.

Dear Alan B.,

Well said.

We have noticed this Senator's remarkable transformation
in the last months from a sex-starved boa constrictor
to a Mr Bean.

He won't be coming back after the election!

No, Alan. We do not need a Bill of Rights. The AHRC should have put everyone except the loony Left right off that idea. We have laws more than adequate to deal with everybody's rights, most of which are really privileges.