4BC Drive with Gary HardgraveWhy Queensland’s Hate Speech Laws were just sent back to the drawing board
The Queensland Government has performed an 11th-hour backdown on proposed hate speech laws that would have granted a single minister the extraordinary power to ban phrases by decree.
Gary Hardgrave and the IPA’s Margaret Chambers unpack how these "meaningless" safeguards risked weaponising subjectivity to silence mainstream political debate.
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