Compromise suggested on changes to Racial Discrimination Act

The Abbott government should make the protections against hate speech meaningful, says Human Rights Commission chief

The Abbott government can salvage its divisive proposal to overhaul the Racial Discrimination Act with a compromise that would see it stick with its favoured wording, but make the protections against hate speech actually meaningful, according to the president of the Human Rights Commission.

Gillian Triggs used an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday to press the government to find some constructive middle ground in the so-called freedom wars by amending its RDA proposal before bringing it to parliament.

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source Guardian