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Chapter 15<br />

SUBMISSIONS TO THE FEDERAL<br />

ATTORNEY-GENERAL<br />

Letters about my case were sent by Peter Hartung, the new director of the<br />

Adelaide Institute, to Robert McClelland, the Federal Attorney-General in<br />

Canberra.<br />

5 th<br />

September 2009<br />

Dear Sir,<br />

As reported in the Jewish Australian Online News, I note that you have<br />

recently met with a delegation from the Executive Council of Australian<br />

Jewry. I understand from this report that what was discussed concerns<br />

the following points:<br />

1. The Government to consult with ISP providers in Australia, suggesting<br />

to them that they should impose a voluntary code of conduct banning<br />

sites found to be promoting racial hatred.<br />

2. That once the Australian Human Rights Commission publishes an<br />

opinion upholding a racial vilification complaint, such a ban could<br />

come into effect pending any final determination by a court.<br />

3. That the current legislation be amended to allow for the total removal<br />

of a website should there be repeated offences.<br />

4. That the law be amended to deal with whichever persons were<br />

involved in the contravention.<br />

5. That any new convention should obligate the individual States to enact<br />

legislation to require ISP operators within their borders to ban hatesites.<br />

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