But Liberal Senator Cory Bernardi this week called for this debate to be reopened in the wake of the French tragedy. Australian Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson also favoured changes to the law, saying yesterday that under current law, Charlie Hebdo cartoons would have faced censorship in Australia. What we do know is that at least some of the cartoons in Charlie Hebdo would have faced, certainly faced, complaints under this Act, may have been censored and certainly through legal processes and delay it would have been very hard for Charlie Hebdo to be published in Australia, he said. Its important to make it clear that section 18C doesn’t cover issues of religion but there are some religious groups that are the same as ethnic groups and therefore would be covered by the Act. sbs.au/news/article/2015/01/14/charlie-hebdos-latest-cover-brave-art-or-blasphemy
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