Attorney General Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/attorney-general/ Wed, 02 Jul 2014 05:11:10 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://journeyonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Journey-Logo-With-UCA-logo_Site-identity_Artboard-2_Artboard-2-copy-32x32.png Attorney General Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/attorney-general/ 32 32 Not so free speech https://journeyonline.com.au/national-news/free-speech/ https://journeyonline.com.au/national-news/free-speech/#respond Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:52:14 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=18859 The Attorney General George Brandis is refusing to make public any of the 5,557 submissions the Government has received for and against the controversial proposed changes to free speech laws. In what some have described as “about as ironic as it gets”, in a Senate Estimates Committee Senator Brandis refused to even say how many ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/national-news/free-speech/feed/ 0 Uniting Church says “NO” to racial discrimination changes https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/uniting-church-says-racial-discrimination-changes/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/uniting-church-says-racial-discrimination-changes/#respond Thu, 12 Jun 2014 22:34:37 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=18848 The Uniting Church in Australia is one of over 150 leading community organisations from around Australia that yesterday signed an open letter to the Attorney-General George Brandis urging the government not to proceed with proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act. The letter says racism is a serious, continuing problem in Australia and remains a major barrier ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/uniting-church-says-racial-discrimination-changes/feed/ 0 Uniting Church rejects Race Discrimination Act amendments https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/uniting-church-rejects-race-discrimination-act-amendments/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/uniting-church-rejects-race-discrimination-act-amendments/#respond Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:20:26 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=18683 The Uniting Church in Australia has submitted comments to the Attorney General’s Department on the Exposure Draft of the proposed legislation to amend the Race Discrimination Act. The Church strongly believes that the proposed Bill should be rejected in its entirety and the submission says the current legislation provides proper protection under law against racial ...

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