WATCH: Benjamin Law & Nakkiah Lui Go In On The 18C “Circle Jerk” On ‘Q&A’

I have always staunchly warned against watching ‘Q&A‘ – there are a million better things you could be doing with your evening that don’t involve watching a lot of belligerent, self-satisfied politicians rolling their eyes at each other as audience members slowly realise that their question will never be answered.

“What we’re saying is, we’re looking at changing an entire law for less than 0.001% [of the population], so to say that this is an issue that affects the majority of Australians, to say that this is something that’s on the tips of the tongues of every single Australian … is not correct.

“What we have is a bunch of elite politicians abusing their power and wasting funds on their personal pursuits and their own agendas, that are not a public matter nor are they in the public interest. We’re paying a senator $195,000 a year on an issue that effects 0.001% of Australians.”

“The whole discussion and debate around 18C has never been about ordinary Australians’ access to freedom of speech – it’s about powerful individuals and powerful organisations having an angry circle jerk about how horrible it is to be called out for being racist in a public forum.”

You can and should watch the whole clip here, as Law quite successfully argues as to how 18D nullifies pretty much all of their shitty complaints: