New hate speech laws cracking down on ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric will go to constitutional limit, Tony Burke says
by Dan Jervis-Bardy and Krishani Dhanji from World news | The Guardian on (#72979)
Home affairs minister would not say whether specific phrases such as globalise the intifada' would be banned under proposed laws
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The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, says new hate speech laws will be drafted to the limits of the constitution to capture the completely dehumanising" rhetoric deployed by so-called hate preachers".
But while Burke said he believed protesters chanting globalise the intifada" was horrific", he couldn't confirm whether the phrase would be outlawed under legislation to be fast-tracked in the wake of the Bondi beach massacre.
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