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A visit to the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Yesterday I took the train into the city to see what wonders might be on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. I hadn’t been there in a while, and there’s always that slim hope: a new work, something unexpected, something that stops you dead. The encounter you get in Berlin, when you …
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On “Palestine Will Be Free” and the Limits of Hate-Speech Law
There are calls here in Australia to expand hate-speech legislation to include the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, which risks collapsing an already fragile distinction between speech that incites harm and speech that contests history. However, confronting the slogan may be to some, it is not, in itself, hate …
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Promoting hate?
There’s a guy here in Australia, Josh Freydenberg, who was a member of a past conservative federal government, who happens to be Jewish, and who, in comments made at the scene of the Bondi Beach shooting, called for more laws, harsher penalties, and that our anti-war, anti-genocide, pro-peace demonstrations be banned. According to this man, …