Michaelia Cash calls for focus on antisemitism in Labor’s new hate speech law

The shadow attorney general, Michaelia Cash, said the detail of the hate speech law proposal would be ‘crucially important’. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

The shadow attorney general, Michaelia Cash, has queried whether Labor intends to criminalise the use of the phrase “from the river to the sea”, demanding clarification of an extensive new anti-hate speech proposal.

The Albanese government is working on a hate speech bill to be introduced in August that would protect people from vilification and hate speech.