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Are We Already Losing Democracy?

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nicknamenick,

Actually the computer room that the students were kicked out of had no signage whatsoever that it was for aboriginal students and was unoccupied.

The supposedly racist comments cited include:

“Just got kicked out of the unsigned ­indigenous computer room. QUT stopping segregation with segregation?”

These are so innocuous that 18d should have had the case chucked out as QUT did, but then the students are still facing a very costly criminal trial.

Next we see another brilliant example of "democracy" with:

"A ferocious campaign against Christian groups planning to meet on same-sex marriage has forced them to cancel the event at a major hotel next week, amid claims of physical threats from marriage-equality advocates.

The Accor Hotels group confirmed late yesterday that the function had been abandoned after a social media storm triggered phone calls that “rattled” employees and left the company concerned about the safety of staff and guests."

The left whingers are using text book fascist tactics.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Sunday, 18 September 2016 8:08:38 AM
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Aidan,

You obviously do support totalitariansim. You are a totalitarian, and there is no point in denying it.

Under the "current" what?

Your ridiculous claim that free speech is "not absolute" proves your totalitarianism. In a free society, freedom of speech is, and must, be absolute. Your totalitarian Section 18C is the thing stopping that freedom, going a long way to proving that that both Australian major political parties, plus the Greens, and the Nick Xenophon group, are the most elitist and totalitarian in the Western world.
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 18 September 2016 9:02:18 AM
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Albie,

So, no snags within 100 metres, but you still have to put up having how to vote propaganda in your face as voters are too stupid to have made up there minds before they arrived, or that they will suddenly change their minds because some daggy hack shoves a bit of paper at them?
Posted by ttbn, Sunday, 18 September 2016 9:08:39 AM
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Shadow Minister
The lack of sign was irrelevant and there's no problem with being there, they were asked to leave and did.
The quoted comment was also OK and the uni just pointed out that it resulted in other responses. Those also were not offences under the Act except for one , still in the court it seems. The Act is not an automated system, judges still use common sense ..well , legal sense..
The 100 metre law. It would be legal for volunteers to stand next to your voting booth with a bull-horn shouting "Vote Malcolm or you're a poofda wog n-g- bludging f- priest".
Posted by nicknamenick, Sunday, 18 September 2016 9:53:51 AM
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Nick,

The problem is that the students now face a full federal criminal trial that requires representation by Barristers that cost $400/hr or more, with no legal aid and no refund of costs which could leave the students with $100 000s of debt even if the case is thrown out of court, whereas the gold digger who has prior records of frivolous lawsuits does not have to stump up one cent.

The comment in my previous post is the single comment that one student is facing court for even after the case was dismissed by the university.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Sunday, 18 September 2016 11:06:41 AM
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Yes they do seem to be up for a lot of costs . And the lady didn't have to look up the facebook page which didn't name anyone , it seems.
The crazy thing is that similar comments are made in this blog and if I type them then my grocery bill will shrink... I hereby reject all comments in the following website.
Cindy Prior, Hedley Thomas - News - Morning Mail
morningmail.org/cindy-prior-hedley-thomas/
Posted by nicknamenick, Sunday, 18 September 2016 1:53:59 PM
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