Former Queensland LNP premier Campbell Newman has hit out at the Crisafulli government's push to give the state the power to ban certain expressions. Mr Newman has described the move as an assault on freedom of speech and democracy — and has insisted the legislation is open to "significant abuse". The LNP has brought forward the sweeping hate speech laws as part of its crackdown on antisemitism in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack. The government has confirmed it intends to ban the phrases 'from the river to the sea' and 'globalise the intifada' once the legislation passes...