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Racial debate is legal.

Australasian Business Intelligence, September, 2005

Byline: Bernard Lane

Sep 20, 2005 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Simon Rice from Macquarie University says Australia's racial vilification laws allow for potentially controversial academic debate. Rice was responding to the decision by Deakin University to cancel the publication of an article by academic Andrew

Fraser, defending the "White Australia" policy. Lawyer George Newhouse had threatened a racial vilification action against the university if it published the article. The university received legal advise that publishing the article would be

in breach of racial vilification laws. The courts would have had the first opportunity to determine...

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