Neo-Nazi group claims it will disband before Labor’s hate speech legislation is brought to parliament

The prime minster, Anthony Albanese, has promised a new listing of hate groups, which would have a lower threshold than the current terrorist organisation list. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Australia’s spy boss will be given powers to recommend an organisation be proscribed as a hate group under the Labor government’s new religious vilification protections.

The draft bill, which the government released on Tuesday, includes new hate speech and anti-vilification laws, powers to formally designate groups as proscribed organisations, and provisions for the largest gun buy-back scheme since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre.