Scrap the Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism 2026 Bill

Christensen on the shocking implications of Labor's Hate Speech Bill

This Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 allows Australians to be investigated and jailed for speech that causes no harm and threatens no one.It punishes beliefs and motives, not just actions, and treats religious and community leaders as inherently dangerous speakers. It removes the need for real victims by criminalising hypothetical fear judged through historical grievance. […] The post Christensen on the shocking implication…

Scrap the Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism 2026 Bill

Socialist Alliance opposes the Anthony Albanese government’s Combating Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026.The proposed law’s main changes are to criminal law, making a new offence for inciting racial (including ethnic and national) hatred and setting up a scheme for outlawing “hate groups”.It is an assault on democratic rights and provides the Australian state with more means to police and imprison oppressed groups, starting with those wh