George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Furner, I am aware of a variety of views in the community, and the government are currently considering those. We went to the last election promising to reform section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act because we were of the view that, as currently written, it does not serve to effectively protect people from racial vilification, with which it does not even deal—were you aware of that, Senator Furner?—and, the extent to which it does seek to address the issue, it does so by unreasonably using the technique of political censorship, which we think in a free society should never be used.