Last year the Victoria Police were given powers to issue on-the-spot fines of up to $240 to punish people caught using language deemed to be indecent, disorderly, offensive or threatening.
The move, part of the government’s extensive law-and-order agenda, has outraged civil libertarians, who accuse the Coalition of eroding fundamental rights such as freedom of speech, and of granting police excessive powers to make value judgments about decency and morality.

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