By the time the Turnbull government is booted from office, the people who speak out on our behalf will be silenced. They will be unable to campaign on poverty, health or the Coalition's pathetic attitude to the environment.
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| Agents of foreign influence? A charity collector in Sydney. |
The lifeblood has already drained from the Human Rights Commission. Gone are the days when its president would stand up for the dispossessed and the disadvantaged. For the Liberal government, that was just the beginning of undermining those who speak out. Now, Attorney-General George Brandis, chief architect of the "great silencing", is off to Britain. Lucky him.
Read the comment by Jenna Price in today’s Melbourne Age - “Turnbull government's holiday plan to silence criticism from charities.”
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