They are coming for your right to speak...beware at your own perilNew Qld LegislationRespect at Work and Other Matters Amendment Bill 2024Trying to stop vilification on grounds of age, gender identity, impairment, race, religion, sex, sex characteristics or sexual orientationHow it is measured is, of course, this subjective measure of a "reasonable" person who then has a "feeling" of being harrassed, vilified or even just ridiculed by someone else. All in the minds of the "aggrieved"Hateful, reviling, seriously contemptuous, or seriously ridiculing conduct(1)A person must not, because of the age, gender identity, impairment, race, religion, sex, sex characteristics or sexual orientation of another person or a group of persons, engage in a public act that a reasonable person would consider hateful towards, reviling, seriously contemptuous of, or seriously ridiculing the other person or members of the group.And it now includes social media postsMeaning of public act(1)In this part, public act—(a)includes the following conduct—(i)any form of communication, including speaking, writing, displaying notices, playing of recorded material, broadcasting and communicating through social media and other electronic methods, to the public;(ii)any conduct, including actions and gestures and the wearing or display of clothing, signs, flags, emblems and insignia, observable by the public;(iii)the distribution or dissemination of any matter to the public; but(b)does not include the distribution or dissemination of any matter by a person to the public if the person does not know, and could not reasonably be expected to know, the content of the matter.(2)Conduct mentioned in subsection (1) may be a public act even if it happens on private land or in a place that is not ordinarily accessed by the general public.
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