NSW Premier: Australia Doesn’t Have the Same Freedom of Speech Laws as America Because ‘We Want’ a ‘Multi-Cultural Community’

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MINNS: "There's been some that had been agitating in the Parliament to nullify the laws, to remove them off the statute books. Think about what kind of toxic message that would send to the New South Wales community. And I think the advocates for those changes need to explain what do they want people to have the right to say, what kind of racist abuse do they want to see or be able to lawfully see on the streets of Sydney. I recognize and I fully said from the beginning that we don’t have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States, and the reason for that is that we want to hold together a multicultural community and have people live in peace, free from the kind of vilification and hatred that we do see around the world."