Introducing Uniform- A new season of All Things Equal

Missing your Just Words fix? We’ve got something else to fill your podcast app. Introducing a new season of All Things Equal. This series will take you into the school yard and beyond, where kids learn that things aren't always fair. Through the stories of real students and staff, will change the …

Just Words - The Live Event - sponsored by Audiocraft

A few weeks ago we broke out of the 2ser studios and headed down the road to our friends at 107 projects in Redfern, Sydney for the Just Words live event, sponsored by Audiocraft.We were overwhelmed when more than 100 of you turned up to sit in the dark and listen to us make a podcast as we put 18C…

Special live guest Jeremy Jones CONFIRMED: Audiocraft present a 2SER Just Words live listening event - Thursday 18th May 7pm

To celebrate the success of Just Words, 2SER 107.3 has teamed up with Audiocraft to present a live listening event at 107 Projects this Thursday May 18th We are excited to announce that we will be joined on the night by special live guest Jeremy Jones, Director of International & Community Affairs…

You are invited: Join the 2SER team for a LIVE recording of Just Words - sponsored by Audiocraft

Audiocraft Presents: 2SER's Just Words To celebrate the success of 2SER's first ever investigative podcast series Just Words, Audiocraft are teaming up with Sydney community radio station 2SER 107.3 for a live listening event.Just Words goes beyond the hype and headlines of Australia's racial discr…

White Bigot Fence

A low lying fence and a prejudiced neighbour see years of racial slurs rain down on an Aboriginal family. So how does 18C help to end racial abuse for everyday Australians?  In  2SER's last episode of Just Words, we look at a little known 18C case that plays out in the front yards of a suburban st…

Angry White Men

This is the story of what happens when a free speech advocate attempts to use 18C to restrict what another person can say.   In August 2016, Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm was interviewed on the ABC’s Insiders where he said offence is always taken, not given and if you don’t want to be offen…

Podcast EXTRA - Senator David Leyonhjelm on 18C - 'offence is taken and not given'

On March 30, a  late-night debate  in the Senate saw the  Government's attempt to change section 18C of the  Racial Discrimination Act reach defeat, after an alliance by Labor, Greens, Nick Xenophon’s team and Jacqui Lambie, voted down the proposed changes - 31 to 28.This means that the plan to rem…

Podcast EXTRA - Will the reforms to 18C capture Holocaust deniers?

Just Words spoke to 18C plaintiff Jeremy Jones, who has used racial hatred laws to fight anti-Semitism since the section was introduced over 20 years ago. Jones is concerned that the proposed draft laws will open the flood gates when it comes to racist speech. He says the Coalition Government's pla…

Podcast EXTRA - Changes to 18C?

On March 21, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced a potential watering down of the controversial Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act. Under the proposal the words “offend, insult, humiliate” will be replaced by “harass”. The reforms were debated in the Senate on Tuesday, but little at…

Prior v QUT

It’s a case that asks more questions than it answers. In 2013, three non-Indigenous students walked into an Indigenous computer lab. What happened next nobody could have predicted. The court documents tell you that the case was Cynthia Prior against the Queensland University of Technology and three…