Promoting and inciting racial hatred - the proposed new Australian offence | Constitutional Clarion

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The most salient point might be that the way it’s currently worded, pointing out that Israel is committing genocide could get you in trouble with this new law (and truth is not a defence) because your statements could reasonably cause hatred towards Israelis.

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  • itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What are facts and common sense but things that are to be debated and enforced with the rule of law, after all, people feelings are getting hurt by the truth so we have to make it less obvious otherwise these people might look bad.

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  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Israelis are not a race though, they’re just citizens of a country.

    So it would not be able to be classified as ‘racial hatred’ and then they would have to pivot to charging that you’re inciting hatred against Jews, which would be much easier to defend. Protesting against Israel is not protesting against Jews - in fact there are a lot of Jews that protest against Israel.

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    • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Israelis are not a race though, they’re just citizens of a country.

      The new laws include “nationality”.

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    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You should probably have actually watched the video

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• No1@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Promoting and inciting racial hatred”

  There must be exclusions for politicians and media, otherwise Hanson, Palmer and Sky News might be 8n b8g trouble.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Well, politicians get an automatic exemption for things they say in Parliament.

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• Psiczar@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s important the law distinguishes between individuals/groups and legal entities like governments. I have no problem with Jews, but I do have a problem with the Israeli government and the genocide they have committed in Gaza.These laws should protect the former while allowing criticism of the latter.

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• pulsewidth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its worth adding that this proposed legislation has now been abandoned by Labor thanks to the Greens saying they would not support the bill in its current format without provisions for genuine protest - the Liberal party also said they’d not support it, for very different reasons. Either way, it’s dead.

  From video description:

  UPDATE: The Government has since announced that it is abandoning its proposed law about promoting and inciting racial hatred. As this analysis now only has educational, not practical relevance, the comments have been closed.

  This video is about one part of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 (Cth) which will [was to] be introduced and debated in the Australian Parliament on 19 and 20 January 2026.

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m like 90% sure that the recent announcement by the government is that the specific part of the law Professor Twomey covers in this video is no longer proceeding.

  Which, if its current form were all that mattered, would be undoubtedly a good thing.

  But I’d have liked to see an attempt at making the spirit of this law work, without the risk of criticising genocidal regimes being caught up in it.

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