Fairfax-Ipsos poll: Eight in 10 voters oppose 18C changes

By Matthew Knott
Updated March 28 2017 - 4:48pm, first published 4:43pm
2016 Australia Day Address. Portrait of Australia Day Adress Speaker Deng Thiak Adut. Deng Adut came to australia as a refugee followling life as a child soldier in Sudan, he put himself through law school and has become a formidable advocate fighting for his client????????????s rights. Deng practices in the areas of criminal, family, employment and international law. He is especially well known for his work as a criminal lawyer assisting the Sudanese community in Blacktown.. Photographed atfer his speach at Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Thursday 21st January 2016. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 160121 Photo: James Brickwood
2016 Australia Day Address. Portrait of Australia Day Adress Speaker Deng Thiak Adut. Deng Adut came to australia as a refugee followling life as a child soldier in Sudan, he put himself through law school and has become a formidable advocate fighting for his client????????????s rights. Deng practices in the areas of criminal, family, employment and international law. He is especially well known for his work as a criminal lawyer assisting the Sudanese community in Blacktown.. Photographed atfer his speach at Verbruggen Hall, Sydney Conservatorium of Music. Thursday 21st January 2016. Photograph by James Brickwood. SMH NEWS 160121 Photo: James Brickwood

An overwhelming majority of Australians oppose legalising speech that "offends, insults or humiliates" on the basis of race, according to a new Fairfax-Ipsos poll that underscores the political danger the Turnbull government faces in softening the nation's race-hate laws.

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