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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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Palestinian DJ ‘heartbroken’ after visa not approved ahead of major music festivals
Sama’ Abdulhadi was due to play at huge events in two states this weekend, expected to attract about 120,000 revellers.
- Kayla Olaya
Labor opposes hate speech and gun control law to LNP jeers
Queensland’s Deputy Premier has launched an inflammatory tirade accusing Labor of supporting terrorists and antisemitism after Thursday’s parliamentary vote.
- Matt Dennien
State walks back attorney-general’s powers as Labor moves to support hate speech bill
Queensland’s opposition will ultimately back the contentious hate speech and gun law changes, while the government has made a last-minute change to the bill.
- Matt Dennien and Catherine Strohfeldt
Police will ‘choose their mark’ to enforce protest slogan ban
High-ranking police faced questions about how they would crack down on crowds of thousands if they chanted phrases banned under the new laws.
- Matt Dennien
Arnold’s daughter died in an intifada. He says calls to globalise it are ‘madness’
The father of a Melbourne-born girl who died at 15 in a Jerusalem suicide bombing says Grace Tame’s calls to “globalise the intifada” have grim consequences.
- Matthew Knott
Crisafulli insists his hate speech laws will ‘stand the test of time’
Dozens of groups have raised concerns about the laws, which will ban any phrases – spoken or written – decided by the A-G, and extend police search powers.
- Matt Dennien
‘Attack on freedom of speech’: Labor faces grassroots push to reject Qld hate laws
The Labor opposition is facing pressure from a grassroots movement to vote against the state government’s hate speech laws.
- James Hall and Matt Dennien
Herzog Melbourne protest as it happened: Israeli president faces protests in final leg of controversial trip
The Israeli president is visiting Melbourne briefly before returning to Israel after a controversial trip to Australia to meet with victims of the Bondi terror attack and politicians.
- Cassandra Morgan, Sherryn Groch, Angus Delaney, Adam Carey, Jackson Graham and Chip Le Grand
Police keep pro-Palestine and pro-Israel supporters separate
Police keep pro-Palestine and pro-Israel supporters separate during Israeli President Isaac Herzog's visit to Melbourne.