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Outgoing Premier Hon Steven Miles addresses media for the first time following the Labor party’s defeat in the 2024 Queensland State Election.

Labor finds some spine on hate laws – and the LNP reaches for outrage

The opposition’s most significant symbolic gesture since it was swept from power at the 2024 state election carries risk for the party on two fronts.

  • Matt Dennien

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Ports in the United Arab Emirates and Oman have been targeted in Iranian retaliatory strikes.

Dubai influencers warned they face jail over war posts

With some of the harshest cybercrime laws in the world, in the UAE any commentary about regional conflict or security can be a criminal offence.

  • Patrick Sawer and Alice Lilley
The phrase “from the river to the sea” would be banned under the laws.

‘Dangerously low bar’: Labor says hate speech laws a gag on freedom of speech

The laws would ban two phrases associated with the pro-Palestinian movement, and give the attorney-general the power to ban further phrases at their whim.

  • Julius Dennis
‘Gays Against Groomers’ activist Celine Baumgarten.

Anti-trans activist wins fight against e-safety watchdog over queer school club tweet

A Federal Court ruling opens the door to legal challenges against hundreds of decisions made each year by Australia’s eSafety commissioner.

  • Noel Towell
The police action on George Street on Monday night.

I’ve worked alongside good police, but what my daughter saw this week shocked me

She asked me why the Herzog protest required such a violent police response. I did not have a simple answer. 

  • Violet Roumeliotis
Scott Morrison. “as a former prime minister, his first duty, surely, should be to champion Australians, including Muslim-Australians.”

He didn’t hold a hose, but Morrison’s still happy to fan the flames

An incendiary speech by former prime minister Scott Morrison has reminded us that when it comes to matters of cultural sensitivity, he’s still a bulldozer.

  • Jacqueline Maley
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Don Lemon, now an independent journalist, has become a harsh critic of the Trump administration.

Former CNN journalist arrested over anti-ICE protest at Minnesota church

Don Lemon said he was covering the demonstration as a reporter, while his lawyer labelled the arrest “an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment”.

  • Michael Koziol
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland presents the new laws to parliament last week.

Attorney-general tells imams new hate speech laws won’t silence criticisms of foreign governments

Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has written to the Australian National Imams Council to tamp down concerns of unintended consequences of the federal government’s hate laws.

  • Mostafa Rachwani
Australia’s biggest neo-Nazi group has been in direct contact with dozens of terrorists and extremist groups overseas.

‘A scary time’: Nazi terror links revealed as disbanding sparks fears of violence

Experts say far-right extremists are more dangerous than ever, even as they officially split, and this masthead reveals the extent of their connection to terror cells around the world.

  • Sherryn Groch
Randa Abdel-Fattah

‘Create tension and disruption’: Randa Abdel-Fattah’s road to festival fiasco

The outspoken academic and author was relatively unknown before the Adelaide Festival debacle but her activism, and the controversy surrounding her, has been building for decades.

  • Michael Bachelard