Melbourne journalist, Andrew Bolt, was found guilty on Wednesday of having contravened the Racial Discrimination Act.

The Judge said that two articles he wrote in the Melbourne Herald Sun contained “errors of fact” and were “inflammatory and provocative”.

Mr Bolt had spoken about what he termed “political Aborigines” – i.e. white-skinned people, with minimal Aboriginal blood in their family tree, who choose to identify as Aboriginal in order to receive benefits, scholarships, awards, celebrity status etc. on the strength of it.

The Prime Minister has declined to comment.

The Attorney General says the government supports the Act.

The Opposition says it will amend the Act — so as to preserve some vestiges of free speech in this country.

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The question is not whether Mr Bolt’s remarks were inaccurate or impolite . . . .

Listen to Australia’s Parliament on radio — or to anything at all on television — and you’ll encounter a wall-to-wall torrent of lies and rudeness exceeding anything Mr Bolt ever descends to.

No doubt he could have made his points less abrasively, and perhaps he should have.

But criticism is something everyone has to put up with at times.

Special laws protecting certain minorities from criticism are classic examples of the mentality that Mr Bolt rightly wants to protect Australia from.

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God has made the human race – with all its variations — one in status and value in his sight.

He requires of us all, regardless of race, to keep his Ten Commandments and seek him through the Sacraments of his Church.

That is what really matters.