The long-awaited reforms will make serious vilification – such as incitement of hatred or physical threats – punishable by up to five years’ jail.
After weeks spent foreshadowing new anti-vilification laws in defiance of a recommendation from the state’s expert legal body,Minns announced on Thursday that he will move to criminalise hate speech when parliament resumes next week.
Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich is concerned the leak will discourage members of the LGBTQ community from reporting hate speech.
A motivated,radical group wants Mardi Gras to be more exclusionary. Less radical queers are now the enemy.
Premier Jacinta Allan has detailed the changes,which include up to five years’ jail for inciting hateful or threatening behaviour.
It is also facing opposition from women’s sex-based rights groups concerned that the proposed new laws will be weaponised by trans activists.
The NSW government has supported all 19 recommendations of a world-first inquiry into gay-hate crimes.
After 32 years,Steve Johnson finally got the news he’d been fighting for:the man who killed his brother was in custody.
As he fought to have them investigate his brother’s death,police resented Steve Johnson’s wealth,but he wasn’t born to money.
Herald senior reporter Andrew Hornery has spent several weeks talking to some who found themselves on the wrong side of the law against homosexuality in NSW.