In a dishonourable capitulation to right wing pressure to change s.18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, Prime Minister Turnbull has given the green light to all those who think it is fine to insult, offend and humiliate their fellow Australians.

In support of this Prime Ministerial imprimatur and institutional endorsement of bigotry, the PM, in true Orwellian speak, has claimed that the amendments actually “strengthen the race hate laws.”

Supported by such notable empathisers as George Brandis and Cory Bernardi, the government has with one fell swoop managed to marginalize all non White Anglo Saxon Australians who have contributed so much to the development and to the multi-culturalism of this country, while at the same time arrogantly ignoring the fervent wishes of the very groups in our community that the Act purports to protect.