Communities lobby politicians to protect Racial Discrimination Act

They've met federal politicians to warn against making any changes which they say would affect all Australians, no matter what their ethnicity.

Liberal Senator Zed Seselja Source: AAP

Earlier this month, the Prime Minister agreed to a parliamentary inquiry into whether section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act imposes unreasonable restrictions on freedom of speech.

 

It makes it illegal to "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" because of a person's "race, colour, national or ethnic origin".

 

Rod Little, from The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples, is among almost a dozen representatives from community groups who've visited Canberra this week to make their message clear.

They want the Racial Discrimination Act left alone.