This article examines a 2020 NSW Supreme Court judgment upholding the legality of English-only rules for communications by ‘extreme high risk restricted’ prison inmates. The article focuses on the reasoning regarding claims to human rights to freedom of expression and from racial discrimination. It explains that the decision provides a rare insight into problematic Australian judicial thinking about language choice in expression, the intersection of racial and linguistic discrimination and the characterisation of English as Australia’s ‘official’ or ‘de facto’ national language.

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哈姆齐诉矫正服务专员对言论自由权的新限制

本文考察了 2020 年新南威尔士州最高法院的一项判决，该判决支持“极端高风险限制”监狱囚犯仅使用英语进行交流的规则的合法性。这篇文章的重点是关于言论自由和种族歧视的人权主张的推理。它解释说，该决定提供了一个罕见的洞察力，以了解有关表达语言选择、​​种族和语言歧视的交叉点以及将英语定性为澳大利亚“官方”或“事实上的”国家语言的澳大利亚司法思维的问题。