‘Bad’ hate crime laws quickly passed after terror ‘con job’ must be reversed, crossbenchers insist

Independents and legal experts say Labor and the Coalition's team-up to ram laws through parliament' was rushed, lacked transparency and was bad politicking'

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Labor and the Coalition have been accused of bad politicking" by teaming up to pass tough hate crime laws in the wake of a series of antisemitic incidents, including one revealed this week to be a fake terrorism plot".

Crossbench MPs also backed a review - or a reversal - of the laws, after the revelations about the caravan plot.

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