Proposed Changes to Racial Vilification Laws – Key Submissions
The Federal Government is currently considering amendments to the racial vilification protections contained in the Racial Discrimination. An Exposure Draft has been released and the Government invited submissions on the proposed changes by 30 April 2014.
The following is a handful of key submissions on the Exposure Draft on changes to the Racial Discrimination Act:
- Australian Human Rights Commission | Additional comment by Tim Wilson
- African Community Organisation of SA
- All Together Now
- Amnesty International
- Arab Council Australia
- Australian Association of Social Workers
- Australian Multicultural Council
- Australian Hellenic Council
- Australian Tamil Congress
- City of Greater Dandenong
- Close the Gap Steering Committee
- CyberRacism and Community Resilience Research Group
- Executive Council of Australian Jewry
- Joint Submission - Appleby, Branson, Grenfell, Owens and Stubbs
- Maurice Blackburn Lawyers
- Multicultural Council of the Northern Territory
- National Aboriginal & Torres Straight Islander Legal Services
- National Congress of Australia's First People's
- National Indigenous Education Consultative Bodies Network
- National Union of Students
- North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency
- NSW Bar Association
- Reconciliation Australia
- Refugee Council of Australia
- Prof Simon Rice, ANU
- Save the Children Australia
- Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus
- Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission
The Castan Centre have also compiled a list of publicly available submissions: Freeing the RDA ‘Free Speech’ submissions.