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Tony Burke says Jewish Australians will be safer after passage of hate speech laws
Home affairs minister Tony Burke said he believes Jewish Australians are safer after the government’s hate speech laws passed parliament last night.
Part of delivering safety is doing something about bigotry. The laws that have gone through do give us more tools to effectively to be able to combat antisemitism. They don’t give us as many tools as the government would have liked, but we have to deal with the parliament that we have.
And there’s no doubt that we now have the strongest protections Australia has ever had.
If we can’t get those criminal hate speech laws through in the wake of the Bondi massacre, then I just don’t see how the situation in the parliament’s about to change.
Twelve years to the day since they were announced, we are now declaring the lockout laws have been completely abolished. I’m delighted to say goodbye to this chapter of Sydney’s nightlife story.
The lockouts had good intentions but a diabolical impact on the night-time economy and the reputation of our city.