Following a surge in antisemitic attacks, Premier Chris Minns will introduce sweeping hate speech law reforms in NSW. The reforms, defying expert legal advice, include criminalizing intentional incitement of racial hatred, strengthening protections for places of worship, and expanding aggravated offences for graffiti on these sites.
Premier Chris Minns will introduce bolstered hate speech laws once parliament resumes, under sweeping reforms to be implemented in response to Sydney’s antisemitic crisis, defying the state’s expert legal advice body.
In a letter to parents on Wednesday, the principal of Bellevue Hill Public School in Sydney’s east said security had been bolstered with the presence of guards at night and in plain clothes during the day. A submission by the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies to the review in June last year argued for hate speech laws to be significantly strengthened through reform of section 93Z, including establishing a new criminal offence of inciting hatred.A second legislative change also relates to section 93Z.
In a statement Minns said the new laws were necessary to stop antisemitic attacks intended to “intimidate and divide” the state. The laws were not confined to antisemitism, Minns noted, saying they would apply to “anyone preying on any person of any religion”.
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