The debate around amending Section 18C is a furphy: the law is there to guard against the most damaging vilification, and very few cases end up in court, writes Professor Luke McNamara.

Oracle chief technology officer Larry Ellison unveiled the company's autonomous database called 18c as well as a cybersecurity system that rides shot gun with it. The aim: Automate the database ...

The debate around amending Section 18C is a furphy: the law is there to guard against the most-damaging vilification, and very few cases end up in court.

However, 18C pursues it in an unconstitutional manner by being too broad and too vague. It should be repealed and a more tightly drafted provision put in its place. Until then, it is vulnerable to ...

It is no answer to say section 18D provides exemptions to 18C. 18C already creates uncertainties about how vague terms like offend, insult and humiliate will be applied in any given situation ...

Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act was used to prosecute conservative commentator Andrew Bolt. Credit: Justin McManus Arguments by critics that the wording of 18C – and specifically ...

The Labor MP said those in the Liberal Party who supported changes to 18C would be emboldened by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s support for changes. “Of course it’s not the last of it.

However, 18C pursues it in an unconstitutional manner by being too broad and too vague. It should be repealed and a more tightly drafted provision put in its place.