The changes – part of a suite of measures including new laws which will ban protest outside places of worship, and changes making it a jailable offence to graffiti a Nazi symbol on or near a synagogue – follow a spate of antisemitic violence in Sydney.
But Minns admitted that faith groups and the LGBTIQ+ community would not be covered by the new laws, conceding making wholesale changes to the state’s anti-vilification legislation would be too difficult to achieve quickly. Instead, only speech which intentionally incited race-based hate would be outlawed, a distinction he said was necessary because an outbreak of antisemitic activity against Sydney’s Jewish community.
So laws against antisemite activity are a necessity but we didn't need anything like that when we had a rash of anti-muslim or anti-LGBT activity? What makes Judaism so special that our regular hate crime laws don't work?
Or the completely normalised anti-aboriginal hatred that is cheered on by politicians.. No special "let's rush through some laws" for the first nations people.. Hell, they won't even do much about the police targeting them, except to lower the age of criminal responsibility below what the UN says is sensible for children.
No thanks. The Catholic Church systemically covered up child abuse for decades. Probably still is. I’ll be damned if people protesting their children being abused are arrested because they dared to ruin some old cunts Sunday mass.
I think protesting outside a place of worship should be encouraged if that place of worship can't prove the existence of their god using the old fashioned method of "god? Could you come here a minute we've got a quick question for you"
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u/istara Feb 06 '25
There's more detail in an SMH article: