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Source: The Noticer

The consensus among human rights organisations is that the Act was a blatant example of political overreach that had produced a rushed piece of legislation that bypassed essential democratic checks and balances in order to severely limit freedom of expression.

To claim Joel Davis’s social media post was either a genuine threat or that he deserved to spend 133 days in jail under one of the most restrictive prison regimes in Australian history would undoubtedly seem like ridiculous overreach to anyone outside of the Australian establishment