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Tannin 
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Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Location: Huon Valley Tasmania
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In a new low even for it, the Turnbull government has stooped to heavy-handed legal threats and action in a vain attempt to shut down a Sydney grandfather freedom of speech.
Turnbull's goons have sicced the Government Solicitor onto this poor chap, threatening him and giving him less than 48 hours to shut down his tiny "Save Medicare" website.
It gets worse: their lawyers are demanding - with threats - that he also undertake never again to use the Medicare logo.
| Quote: | I've committed a terrible crime, I don't agree with a government policy. Medicare belongs to the people anyway, the government is simply the caretaker and yet I'm being pursued like I'm producing and selling a counterfeit product...
I'm trying to build the brand of Medicare rather than diminish it. It is the government which has threatened Medicare by cutting billions of dollars out of it. |
Note that this same Liberal Party which is persecuting this Sydney grandfather and threatening him with huge legal bills itself repeatedly used those same Medicare logos in its party political election advertising.
The free speech champions. Yer right. They are nothing but scum.
http://savemedicare.org/
http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/turnbull-government-threatens-to-sue-grandfather-over-save-medicare-website-20161123-gsvlyh.html
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That's terrible, I totally agree with him, but more importantly, yes, free speech. He must have them scared
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Jezza 
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This man's freedom of speech deserves to be protected.
What a waste of government expenditure if this goes all the way to the court system.
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stui magpie 
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Slow news day. 
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| Oh, you are a poet. |
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Pies4shaw 
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This isn't the first time. There was a case (Davis????) around the bicentennial logo - there was a concern that a political slogan was misappropriating it. My recollection is it was decided in the High Court.
Of course, such things are never really a waste of money - good lawyers seldom waste any of the money they are paid. |
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Jezza
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| Pies4shaw wrote: | This isn't the first time. There was a case (Davis????) around the bicentennial logo - there was a concern that a political slogan was misappropriating it. My recollection is it was decided in the High Court.
Of course, such things are never really a waste of money - good lawyers seldom waste any of the money they are paid. |
You're thinking of Davis v Commonwealth (1988), which related to the issue of whether the Commonwealth had an implied nationhood power.
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Pies4shaw
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| Yes, Davis v The Commonwealth (1988) 166 CLR 79. If anyone wants to read it, you'll find a version of it on Austlii. |
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Pies4shaw
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| Jezza wrote: | | Pies4shaw wrote: | This isn't the first time. There was a case (Davis????) around the bicentennial logo - there was a concern that a political slogan was misappropriating it. My recollection is it was decided in the High Court.
Of course, such things are never really a waste of money - good lawyers seldom waste any of the money they are paid. |
You're thinking of Davis v Commonwealth (1988), which related to the issue of whether the Commonwealth had an implied nationhood power. |
Well, yes and no. That's part of the reason we used to teach it in constitutional law - but the more entertaining issues underlying the case concerned where the Court thought the limits of the exercise of such a power might lie and whether it might, for example, permit legislative regulation of the use of specific collections of ordinary words. |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| That seems like a lot. |
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Culprit 
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| There was a case last year over Medicare with a bloke on Facebook,Facebook backed the guy and told the Feds to F off. To add, the rhetoric from the government is that it could confuse vulnerable people. At this stage not one person has complained. Also his website had maybe 100 hits, the server crashed today after the media attention due to the enormous amount of traffic lol This will backfire on the LNP and is just a case of bullying. |
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Wokko 
Come and take it.
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| Government is a protection racket. More news at 6. |
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