'Advocating genocide' to be crime under proposed new national security laws
by Michael Safi from on (#KCMG)
George Brandis announces move as part of hate speech crackdown seemingly aimed at the radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir
A new crime of advocating genocide, apparently aimed at the radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir, will be introduced as part of the Abbott government's next tranche of counter-terrorism legislation, George Brandis has announced.
"Free speech has no greater advocate than I," the attorney general wrote in Sydney's Daily Telegraph. "But advocating extremism or violence to achieve political change, or to hurt, threaten, or vilify others, is not a legitimate use of free speech and has no place in our society."
