It was a pleasure to take part with Associate Professor Christine Inglis and Leticia Anderson at the Sydney University Election Nerds Show about multicultural Australia.  Thank you to Dr Peter John Chen of the Department of Government in International Relations for organising it.

The Multiculturalism Show is available online and via itunes – http://www.electionnerds.info/?p=733 – feel free to share this link on your social media sites.

On 8 November 2016, pursuant to section 7(c) of the Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011, the Attorney-General referred to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights the following matters for inquiry and report:

• whether the operation of Part IIA of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) (including sections 18C and 18D) impose unreasonable restrictions on freedom of speech; and
• whether the complaints-handling procedures of the Australian Human Rights Commission should be reformed.

My submission to the parliamentary inquiry into freedom of speech in Australia has been published on the inquiry website of the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights.

To view it, please refer to the list of submissions on the inquiry website at:

http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Human_Rights_inquiries/FreedomspeechAustralia/Submissions.