The Australian chapter of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir has said it has no plan to disband before Labor’s hate speech legislation is brought to parliament, a day after the National Socialist Network (NSN) claimed it would do so.
Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia and the neo-Nazi NSN, which are not associated with each other, were named by the home affairs minister, Tony Burke, on Saturday as organisations that could be targeted by proposed legislation to ban alleged “hate groups” after the Asio general director, Mike Burgess, raised concerns about both.
