Kimberley Kitching (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Brandis. Yesterday the Coalition to Advance Multiculturalism, a collection of 20 organisations, including the Council of Christians and Jews and the Vietnamese community in Australia, said:

The Turnbull Government's decision to pursue the watering down of protections against racial vilification is utterly shameful and at odds with the principles of multicultural Australia.

Why is the government ignoring the concerns of the very communities that section 18C was legislated to protect?