Public urged to fight racism despite changes to RDA

The proposed changes to the Racial Discrimination Act stem from the federal government's belief that a 2011 judgment against Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt amounted to an attack on free speech. Federal Court judge Mordy Bromberg found Andrew Bolt breached the Racial Discrimination Act by writing two articles about fair skinnned Indigenous people that contained what he called errors in fact, distortions of truth and inflammatory and provocative language. One of the Indigenous people, who was part of the legal action, says the case was never about curtailing free speech and suggestions to the contrary are a complete distortion of the judge's findings.

Geoff Clark