Chaos. Gillard drops another attempt to muzzle New Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is dropping the Government's planned consolidation of the five anti-discrimination acts. He wants a ``lot more work to be done"" on changes that reversed the onus of proof, expanded the grounds of complaint and originally threatened to make giving offence on even political grounds unlawful: JULIA Gillard and her new Attorney-General have dumped their anti-discrimination reforms, breaking an election promise, outraging many Labor MPs and further destabilising the Prime Minister's leadership. Yesterday Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus ... said the exposure draft was being sent back to his department for a "lot more work to be done" on the proposed reforms. "We can't go forward at this time," he said... What I can't do, between receipt of the Senate committee's report and the end of these autumn sittings, is taken account of, fully consider what are more than 100 suggestions that arise from the Senate committee's report. We could attack Dreyfus for demonstrating how dysfunctional this Government is, proposing draconian limits to free speech (now with the media laws) only to be forced into a messy retreat. All pain for the government, for no gain. But I'd rather thank him for withdrawing the bills. I'm disappointed Dreyfus did not acknowledge how outrageous some of the Government proposals were - how authoritarian - but be grateful they are gone. For now. Janet Albrechtsen is grateful to Roxon - and to Communications Minister Stephen Conroy - for reminding us that the Left is the natural enemy of free speech: Her equally misguided attempt to set boundaries around speech pursuant to her Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bill is another example of what many members of the Left will do if given the chance. Their paternalist preference for a new measure - fair speech, not free speech, where they determine what is fair - reeks of conceit and an assumption that people are too stupid to be trusted with unfettered speech.