2024 Plunkett Lecture - Dr Jeff Kildea (10 Sept 2024)
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"Liberty not Licence: The law's response to the challenges of ethno-religious sectarianism in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia”In nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia sectarianism between Catholics, mostly of Irish descent, and Protestants, mostly of British descent, threatened to destroy the vision of a society in the new world based on religious tolerance and social harmony freed from the conflicts of the old. In this lecture Dr Jeff Kildea will describe the challenges sectarianism posed for Australia's emerging democracy and examine how those responsible for making and administering the law responded to those challenges. Our forebears' attempts to balance freedom of thought, belief, and expression with the maintenance of peace, social harmony, and order provide lessons for us today as we face the challenges of our own new world of ‘culture wars’, ‘identity politics’, 'hate speech’ and ‘cancel culture’.
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2024 Plunkett Lecture - Dr Jeff Kildea (10 Sept 2024)
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