Re: [General] Content of aus.rail

["Dave Proctor" <daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au>]

"Tezza" <tezza2000@dingoblue.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Ronald BESDANSKY" <ronbest@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> > My last word on this subject: I believe that inciting racial hatred, by
> > suggesting that people of a certain race have particular negative
> > characteristics, where there is no basis in fact for such a claim, IS
> > contrary to the Federal and state race discrimination acts. For example,
> > suggesting that Indians can't drive trains, or that the Jews were
> > responsible for Germany's economic problems in the 1930s.
>
> Neither statement is discriminatory, nor incitement to racial hatred. as
to
> the truth of either statement, I neither know nor care as it's irrelevant
to
> me.

It is NOT discriminatory, as it falls within the boundaries of being a
reasonable requirement. The same could be said of someone with a thick Irish
or Scottish accent, if the operator wishes a clear, fluent announcement they
are perfectly entitled to restrict the making of announcements to those that
they wish to do so (although they would save themselves a stack of trouble
by individually accreditting announcers).

Dave