New South Wales (NSW) Labor Premier Chris Minns is planning to tighten hate speech laws when state parliament resumes next month amid a rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the community.
“Hate speech laws have been in place in the state for a long period of time but they’ve criminalised acts that have induced violence in the community, not for example vilification which has been in the civil courts and civil penalties. [They’re] still against the law but requires a private individual to launch prosecution,” he told the ABC.
