Opinion

'Get it through your thick skulls. There is no freedom of speech in Australia'

Crispin Hull
Updated July 2 2021 - 2:32am, first published August 10 2019 - 12:00am

You can almost hear the exasperation in the words of the High judges last week. They wrote: "As has been emphasised by this Court repeatedly ... the implied freedom of political communication [in the Australian Constitution] is not a personal right of free speech."

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Crispin Hull

Crispin Hull

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Crispin Hull is a former editor of The Canberra Times and a regular columnist.

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