Unfortunately, Australia's constitution contains very little in the way of protections for people.
It certainly provides no assurances of freedom of speech, and this is provided, in basic form, by precedence and common law (made by Parliament, can also be repealed by the same).
Australia is moving more and more towards right-of-centre politics in a number of regards, our only protection at the moment is that the right-of-center political forces have managed to carve up the conservative vote, hence removing them from power all together, but eventually this will change, and I'm sure we'll see more along these lines very soon.
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Unfortunately, Australia's constitution contains very little in the way of protections for people.
It certainly provides no assurances of freedom of speech, and this is provided, in basic form, by precedence and common law (made by Parliament, can also be repealed by the same).
Australia is moving more and more towards right-of-centre politics in a number of regards, our only protection at the moment is that the right-of-center political forces have managed to carve up the conservative vote, hence removing them from power all together, but eventually this will change, and I'm sure we'll see more along these lines very soon.