'Unfortunate tropes' are being used to justify proposed carve-outs of sweeping hate speech laws, a peak Jewish group says. Draft laws to be debated next week when parliament returns early would introduce hate speech and racial vilification offences, with a defence included for people quoting directly from a religious text. When asked to justify the defence of religious text in the bill, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the laws would 'set a principle-based test for conduct and speech that incites racial hatred towards another person or group'. 'We want to get the broadest possible support for this bill,' he said...
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