Queensland announces major cost of relief measure ahead of election; a DIY store with about 200 people inside has been struck by Russian missiles in Kharkiv. Follow updates live.
Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus is expected to draft new hate speech laws that would increase protections for minority groups by imposing criminal penalties for serious instances of vilification based on a person’s sexuality or race, gender or religion. “The Albanese government is committed to promoting and supporting respect, acceptance and understanding across the Australian community,” Dreyfus told the Sydney Morning Herald.
” Communications Minister Michelle Rowland on Sunday said the Labor government would not tolerate “hatred and abuse on the basis of race or religion” after a Melbourne Jewish school campus was plastered with anti-semitic graffiti. Rowland said a friend whose child attends Mount Scopus in Burwood, rang her distressed about the incident. “She said, ‘my grandparents and my husband’s grandparents fled the Holocaust and now we are here in Australia seeing this’.
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