In short:
Labor’s gun and hate crime reforms will be tabled in parliament as separate pieces of legislation after the omnibus bill was opposed by both the Coalition and the Greens.
The minor opposition party said it would not support the “divisive” hate speech laws over civil liberty and free speech concerns, but agreed to back the gun control laws.
What’s next?
The new legislation will be introduced in the lower house on Tuesday morning before proceeding to the Senate.
Thank god for multi-party system, lucky Australia… wtf
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 20 hours ago
I feel like Labor won the political week with this. Instead of being accused of going too soft and slowly, everyone is saying slow down and don’t go that far!
Yes, they’re being criticised, it seems they’re not going to be able to make any decision without that, but they’ve flipped the direction of policy indicated by that criticism. Can’t help thinking this was the plan in order to neuter the Coalition and Murdoch propagandists.