{"id":424448,"date":"2026-01-20T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424448\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T01:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T01:44:09","slug":"parliament-recalled-to-pass-hate-speech-gun-laws-in-response-to-bondi-attack-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424448\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament recalled to pass hate speech, gun laws in response to Bondi attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow attorney-general Andrew Wallace has slammed the government for its handling of hate reforms following the Bondi attack, labelling its first attempt a \u201crushed, sprawling and incoherent omnishambles of a bill\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He flagged support for the bill, however, \u201csubject to the safeguards and amendments we have sought to ensure these measures are targeted, proportionate and lawful\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Andrew Wallace speaks in parliament on Tuesday.\" aspectratios=\"[object Object]\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/079446c8a6a858ac734c91d4d45c17a29dae96ca.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d2942506-1 wgbit\"\/>Andrew Wallace speaks in parliament on Tuesday.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>Wallace said measures before the House today \u201ccould and should have been taken after October 7, 2023\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, the government delayed, it dithered, and ultimately produced a failed omnishambles bill that had to be dismantled. There is much more to do if we are to stamp out antisemitism once and for all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace said the snap inquiry into the reforms held last week was insufficient, with stakeholders given just days to make submissions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [joint committee on intelligence and security] is an important committee of this parliament, tasked by the PM to conduct what could only be described as a sham inquiry,\u201d Wallace said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe committee\u2019s report was only tabled this morning, making the committee\u2019s process an absolute farce.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shadow attorney-general Andrew Wallace has slammed the government for its handling of hate reforms following the Bondi attack,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-424448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}