The Serb and Boer racists had not attacked Australia and the nearest brush we had with the Soviet NKVD was when Beria's man Vladimir Petrov, who had been bullying Soviet embassy staff under NKVD authority, suddenly found himself without protection on the unexpected execution of his boss Beria, and in panic made a deal with Menzies and the Australian political police to tell a scripted story to a Royal Commission here. It was great to see our agents flattening Soviet stooges at Darwin Airport who tried to smuggle Petrov's wife Evdokia out of the country.

The Jap onslaught killed many Australian, American and British soldiers in addition to countless other also much better people than the Jap soldiers in Manchuria, China and places south. That makes it our direct historical business. Lest we forget.

Btw, if truth is not a defence under 18C it's high time this clause was amended to make it so.

The Japanese complaint based on 18c is just as legitimate as any other. The Japanese are offended by this, and have just the same right to challenge the statue as Cindy Prior did to challenge the students, and to drag the artist and council through $100 000s of litigation until they remove the statue. Even if the council wins the legal fees could bankrupt it as the Japanese society that brought the case simply folds and walks away from any costs if it loses.

18c is an ambulance chasers wet dream, and will continue to generate lucrative "victims" for many years to come.

Well, so far the judges involved in the cases
brought before them concerning 18C
have all made the right decisions. Be it Andrew
Bolt or Ms Prior

Certainly in the case of Ms Prior.

What about the hundreds that have been extorted that didn't go to trial. For example the 3 students that coughed up $5000 for a case they clearly would have won, but could not afford.

Australia would become a very inhospitable place for any Japs who used 18C to claim our soldiers died for nothing on the Kokoda trail and in other theatres.