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jorday discovered 8 weeks ago- Yay for Civil Rights!
- Ausearth rated 8 weeks ago
- These broken catholic laws are nothing but fascist control tools. Thank god someone has some sense Catholics and slavery? Scary stuff, They crucify there god,they would crucify anyone that is not enslaved to there false ego.
- advena rated 8 weeks ago
- Woohoo! Thanks to the NoToPope coalition and a still independent judiciary Morris Mugabe's ridiculous anti-constitutional law has been thrown out. We are free to be annoying! "Two Sydney activists have won a Federal Court challenge to special World Youth Day laws that carry $5500 fines for annoying pilgrims. The NoToPope Coalition scored the victory when the Federal Court ruled that legislation that would have prevented its members from handing out leaflets and other items was invalid in law. The court, comprising Justices French, Branson and Stone, said that part of the World Youth Day Act, passed by the NSW Parliament to keep order during the World Youth Day events, "should not be interpreted as conferring powers that are repugnant to fundamental rights and freedoms at common law in the absence of clear authority from Parliament"[...] [...]The judges said that the interpretation of clause 7.1 of the act, which allowed regulation of conduct deemed to be a cause of "annoyance", was invalid because it "affects freedom of speech in a way that, in our opinion, is not supported by the statutory powers". There was "no intelligible boundary" on what "causes annoyance". The regulation relating to annoyance "could be expected to have a chilling effect upon the exercise of their freedom of speech because of the very uncertainty about the degree of its infringement upon that freedom", they said."
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