Senate kills off Turnbull government's changes to 18C race discrimination law

By Michael Koziol, Latika Bourke
Updated March 31 2017 - 3:48pm, first published 3:38pm
Attorney-General Senator George Brandis in the Senate at Parliament House on Tuesday 28 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares  Photo: Andrew Meares
Attorney-General Senator George Brandis in the Senate at Parliament House on Tuesday 28 March 2017. Photo: Andrew Meares Photo: Andrew Meares

Three years of wrangling over a section of Australia's racial discrimination laws has again amounted to naught after the Senate killed off the Turnbull government's proposed changes late Thursday night.