It's Not What You Say But the Way That You Say It: Australian Hate Speech Laws and the Exemption of "Reasonable" Expression
Judith Bannister · Scholorship Repository - Florida State University College of Law (Florida State University) · 2008
Racial and Religious Tolerance Act, 2001 (Vict.);Criminal Code, § § 76-80F (W.Austl.).9. Apologies are sometimes ordered, but some magistrates and judges have expressed doubts about the utility of such orders."An apology should come from the heart and not be the subject of a court order."San v. Dirluck Pty Ltd. (2005) 222 A.L.R. 91, ¶ 49, (2005) F.M.C.A. 750, ¶ 49 (find at http://austlii.edu.au).10.Several complaints were not sustained as vilification.See, e.g., Miller v. Wertheim (2002) E.O.C. ¶ 93-182, (2002) E.O.C. ¶ 93-223, (2002) F.C.A. 156, ¶ 1 (find at http://austlii.edu.au)(involving criticism of the Orthodox Jewish community in a speech at a Jewish Board of Deputies meeting); Bryl v. Kovacevic (1999) E.O.C. ¶ 93-022, (1999) HREOCA 11, ¶ ¶ 1, 7 (find at http://austlii.edu.au)(involving a theatrical play about the turmoil in Bosnia-Herzegovina); Francis v. YWCA Austl.(2006) V.C.A.T. 2456, ¶ 3 (find at http://austlii.edu.au)(involving a t-shirt with the words "get your rosaries off my ovaries"); Fletcher v. Salvation Army Austl.(2005) V.C.A.T. 1523, ¶ 1 (find at http://austlii.edu.au)(involving a claim that Christian teaching vilified witchcraft); Judeh v. Jewish Nat'l Fund of Austl.Inc. (2003) V.C.A.T. 1254, ¶ ¶ 9, 10 (find at http://austlii.edu.au)(involving an advertisement in a newspaper with the outline of a map of Israel that incorporated Palestinian