2m agoTue 23 Dec 2025 at 12:57am
Government working with Jewish leaders on hate speech laws
Burke says the government is also working with “the leadership of the Jewish community” on hate speech laws.
“[That] will feed directly into the drafting which will take place,” he said.
“But people should be in no doubt about where the target is as this drafting is done.
“We want to make sure that those hate preachers who have managed to keep themselves just on the legal side of Australian law, that the threshold is lowered.
“Those statements that we have seen, that every reasonable Australian has viewed as horrific and as having no place in Australia, will become criminal.”