{"id":6567,"date":"2018-06-07T01:27:36","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T15:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2018-06-07T01:27:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T15:27:36","slug":"nsw-parliament-to-toughen-hate-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/nsw-parliament-to-toughen-hate-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"NSW Parliament to toughen Hate Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;<b><a title=\"Hate speech\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hate_speech\">hate speech<\/a>&nbsp;laws in&nbsp;<a title=\"Australia\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Australia\">Australia<\/a><\/b>&nbsp;give redress to someone who is the victim of&nbsp;<a title=\"Discrimination\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Discrimination\">discrimination<\/a>,&nbsp;<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Racial vilification\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Racial_vilification\">vilification<\/a>, or&nbsp;<a title=\"Injury\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Injury\">injury<\/a>&nbsp;on grounds that differ from one jurisdiction to another.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposed amendments introduced to the Parliament, individuals who incite violence against a community or person based on their race could face up to three years in prison and an $11,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, if passed, will create a new offence in the Crimes Act of &#8220;publicly threatening or inciting violence&#8221; on the grounds of race, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity and intersex or HIV\/AIDS status.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney-General Mark Speakman said current provisions in the Anti-Discrimination Act have been ineffective in prosecuting people accused of encouraging violence and have not led to a successful prosecution in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-06-05\/nsw-hate-speech-laws-to-be-toughened\/9837816?pfmredir=sm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Click here to read more &#8230;.]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source includes Wikipedia.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;hate speech&nbsp;laws in&nbsp;Australia&nbsp;give redress to someone who is the victim of&nbsp;discrimination,&nbsp;vilification, or&nbsp;injury&nbsp;on grounds that differ from one jurisdiction to another. Under the proposed amendments introduced to the Parliament, individuals who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,45],"tags":[77,88,208],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-nsw","tag-australia","tag-nsw","tag-racism","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6580,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwip.com.au\/hcaold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}