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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Dan Jervis-Bardy and Krishani Dhanji

New hate speech laws cracking down on ‘dehumanising’ rhetoric will go to constitutional limit, Tony Burke says

Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke (L) and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (R) speak to the media at Parliament House
Tony Burke and Anthony Albanese speaking to the media on Friday. The federal government has announced a five-step plan to strengthen hate speech laws to combat antisemitism. Photograph: Hilary Wardhaugh/Getty Images

The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, says new hate speech laws will be drafted to the limits of the constitution to capture the “completely dehumanising” rhetoric deployed by so-called “hate preachers”.

But while Burke said he believed protesters chanting “globalise the intifada” was “horrific”, he couldn’t confirm whether the phrase would be outlawed under legislation to be fast-tracked in the wake of the Bondi beach massacre.

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