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Keiran Hardy, Associate Professor, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University

We can’t coerce our way to social cohesion. Here’s what else governments should be doing

Last week, Queensland followed the New South Wales and federal parliaments by passing stronger hate crime laws in response to the Bondi terror attack.

The Queensland laws target two specific phrases – an approach that risks the laws being struck down as unconstitutional. Two protesters were arrested on Wednesday – the day the laws came into effect.

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