Dreyfus determines to take offence New Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus plays the absurd more-offended-than-thou game that's helped to give us Labor's sinister new proposals to limit free speech: The trouble is Dreyfus is a hypocrite who feels perfectly entitled to himself make comparisons with Nazis: Abbott's wildest claim is that he is running a â"truth campaign"." Leaving aside the Goebbellian cynicism of labelling a scare campaign a â"truth campaign"," I think it shows Abbott's contempt for the Australian electorate. Just do demonstrate how out of touch Dreyfus is with his manufactured outrage over a reference to the Downfall video, note how many spoofs have been made of it. Would Dreyfus perhaps like to ban them all? Thanks to reader the Old and Unimproved Dave. UPDATE A very tiny shift from Dreyfus towards free speech, but far, far from enough: INCOMING attorney-general Mark Dreyfus has expressed personal concern about the risk to freedom of speech from legislation that encourages people to sue each other for invasions of privacy... "Legislating in an effective way to protect privacy while at the same time not unduly affecting freedom of speech has proved to be a very difficult task," Mr Dreyfus said. Sadly, it's one step forward but a hundred back: Mr Dreyfus's remarks ... come at a time when the government is considering a range of other measures on free speech, including: â¢ The future of criminal sanctions on public servants who reveal government ineptitude and wrongdoing to the media. â¢ Proposals to create a statutory regulator to police media content. â¢ The future of federal "hate speech" laws that impose legal liability for statements that offend and insult people because of race... Mr Dreyfus ... is taking office just days after concerns about the threat to free speech led Ms Roxon to abandon some of her proposals for federal anti-discrimination law... Mr Dreyfus, who will now take carriage of the consolidation project, has drawn a line on extending the backdown to federal laws against racial vilification, which have long penalised speech that people find offensive and insulting because of their race. These provisions were used in the Federal Court against columnist Andrew Bolt, who was sued over articles he wrote about light-skinned Aborigines.