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Andrew Bolt has fired a warning shot ahead of the looming judgment in his racial discrimination case, using his regular column in this morning’s Herald Sun to launch an attack against “left-wing” judges.

The Herald Sun has launched an unprecedented bid to publish the totality of “proceedings, argument and evidence” in the Andrew Bolt racial discrimination case, sparking fears of a massive media campaign to bag the trial in the eyes of the public.

The two senior silks representing nine prominent members of the Aboriginal community in the Andrew Bolt race case have concluded their submissions with a passionate plea for Judge Mordy Bromberg to ban the Herald Sun from publishing “unlawful” stories in the future.

Andrew Bolt will not be forced to apologise over a series of articles on lighter-skinned members of the Aboriginal community, the Federal Court was told this morning.

Andrew Bolt’s defence QC has mounted a torturous argument to show his high-profile client failed to fall foul of the Racial Discrimination Act in the Federal Court this morning.

Federal Court judge Mordy Bromberg has questioned key elements of Andrew Bolt’s defence in a racial discrimination case brought by nine prominent members of the Aboriginal community this morning.

Right wing Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt has been verbally restrained by a Federal Court judge after he slammed an anti-discrimination case brought against him as an “unforgivable travesty” designed to “smear me.”

Australia’s most popular opinion writer has branded the equation of his views on Aboriginality with Nazi eugenics as “false and grossly offensive” in the Federal Court today.

Again, the courts have been the venue for a savage attack on free speech, this time involving Andrew Bolt.

Short of force of arms, there is surely no more awesome power in the modern world than the ability to define and represent people in the public eye.

As we hit the publish button, Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin is announcing the passage of the welfare reform bill, thereby restoring the Racial Discrimination Act.

The Government should withdraw the proposed paternalistic social security legislation, pass the Greens’ Bill to reinstate the RDA and start a wider discussion on how to achieve real welfare reform.

The Federal Government will shortly announce the extension of income management Australia-wide as part of its reintroduction of the Racial Discrimination Act in the Northern Territory.

John Howard’s rejection of a charter of rights in comparison with the UN’s criticism of the Northern Territory Intervention, highlights the problems with Australia’s parliamentary process, writes wmmbb.

Jenny Macklin was advised by her department against formally consulting with Aboriginal people over the compulsory acquisition of their land, reports Chris Graham.

No other Australian is asked to surrender land rights to secure basic services, write Alison Vivian and Larissa Behrendt.

The postponement of the NTER Review Board report is characteristic of the whole unhappy intervention adventure, writes Graham Ring.

NT intervention … A Google election … turning off the election … Kirribilli house - yours for $15 … One-Two-Go crash … Greenspan … Flint … Crikey ME07 T-shirts …

Since federation there have been four major landmarks in Indigenous affairs. Howard has now reversed them all, writes Alan Austin.

In moves seemingly impossible to reconcile with the protection of Aboriginal children on remote towns and communities in the Northern Territory, a document has come into the hands of Crikey that presages a federal government takeover of millions of dollars worth of assets owned by Aboriginal organisations.

In the third of five extracts from her new book The Content Makers, Crikey media commentator Margaret Simons meets Graeme Samuel and wonders at the ACCC’s role in media regulation.

The fact that the Howard Government’s new legislation is racist - that is, it breaches the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 - is beyond doubt, writes Greens Senator Rachel Siewert.