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反对党领袖Tony Abbott说，如果他当选总理，他将修改反种族歧视法，重新启动有关言论自由的讨论。
周一，Abbott在悉尼说，联盟党如果获胜组阁，将会废除反种族歧视法中禁止基于种族和民族的原因而冒犯他人的描述的条款。
在公共事务学院发表的演讲中，他声称作为总理，他将从反种族歧视法中取消18C条款来作为“（关于）言论自由的新讨论”的一部分。
在现行的反种族歧视法中，禁止基于种族和民族的原因而对他人进行“冒犯、攻击、羞辱和恐吓”。
“（即使）某一特定个人被憎恨嘲讽和蔑视笼罩, 也不能因为有可能冒犯某一群体，就把（避免这种可能性的）行为测试作为一种行为准则。这实在是矫枉过正。”
“当你无畏地追寻真相的时候，不可能同时顾及是否对他人造成伤害。”
他的这番讲话是在他给《澳大利亚人报》发表文章称反种族歧视法的18C条款是对言论自由的“威胁”后发表的。
他在文章中写道：“仅仅因为一些冒犯他人的表述或主张就成了违法行径，这是不应该发生的。”
他再次捍卫新闻集团的专栏作家Andrew Bolt的权利。该作家由于在文章中描述浅肤色的土著人的词句而被判定违反了反种族歧视法。
该作家的文章写于2009年，其标题是“成为黑人实在太时髦了”、“黑人中的白小子们”。
Abbott说，虽然这不是Bolt写的最好的文章，但评论家们应该能承受言论自由。
OPPOSITION Leader Tony Abbott says he will open new debate about freedom of speech by rolling back racial discrimination laws if elected prime minister.
A coalition government would repeal laws prohibiting statements that offend people on racial or ethnic grounds, Mr Abbott said in an address in Sydney on Monday.
In a speech at an Institute of Public Affairs function, Mr Abbott said that as prime minister, he would remove section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act as part of a "new debate about freedom of speech".
Under the current law, statements are prohibited if they "offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate" people based on race and ethnicity.
"Making the likelihood of causing offence to a group the test of acceptable behaviour goes way beyond the time-honoured remedy when a particular victim has been brought into hatred, ridicule, or contempt," Mr Abbott told the function.
"A hurt feelings test is impossible to comply with while maintaining the fearless pursuit of truth."
Mr Abbott's speech came after he wrote in The Australian newspaper on Monday that section 18C of the act was a "threat" to freedom of speech.
"Expression or advocacy should never be unlawful merely because it is offensive," he wrote.
He again defended News Limited columnist Andrew Bolt, who was ruled to have breached the Racial Discrimination Act in articles he wrote on fair-skinned Aborigines.
The articles, published in 2009, were headlined "It's so hip to be black" and "White fellas in the black".
Mr Abbott said while the articles were not Mr Bolt's finest, the commentator should have been afforded the right of freedom of speech.
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