Racial Hatred Act
The Racial Hatred Act ("RHA") was introduced in October 1995 and extends the coverage of the RDA to prohibit offensive behaviour based on racial hatred (racial vilification)(section 18C).
The RHA covers public acts which are done, in whole or in part, because of the race, colour, or national or ethnic origin of a person or group AND reasonably likely in all the circumstances to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate that person or group.
Read more about this topic: Racial Discrimination Act 1975
Famous quotes containing the words racial, hatred and/or act:
“Rarely do American parents deliberately teach their children to hate members of another racial, religious, or nationality group. Many parents, however, communicate the prevailing racial attitudes to their children in subtle and sometimes unconscious ways.”
—Kenneth MacKenzie Clark (20th century)
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“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)