In short:
Religious groups and unions have made submissions to a Queensland parliamentary committee probing new laws that would ban certain phrases and expressions.
The Islamic Council of Queensland and the Archdiocese of Brisbane raised concerns about religious freedom and civil liberties.
What’s next?
The committee will table its report on February 27.
The legislation before the parliament does not specifically ban any phrases, but it gives the government of the day the power to outlaw a phrase through regulation.
The legislation would allow the government to ban an expression if the attorney-general was satisfied it was regularly used to incite discrimination, hostility, or violence towards a relevant group.
Could you elaborate? I don’t really understand what bit you don’t understand. Particularly since the quoted bit that you said you didn’t understand leaves off the payoff that that was an introduction to?
I think its the first sentence that throws me,
I’m not sure what ‘it’ is in this sentence.
“it” is “banning phrases that call for resistance to oppression and for freedom from that oppression”. I had just said “it” is disgusting, and then say “but let’s say it’s not?”
Cheers :) I don’t know why that threw me, maybe Sunday morning, brain not switched on.
Glad we worked it out.