George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Again, Senator Di Natale, you seem to have misunderstood the legislation entirely. The exposure draft I have circulated for community feedback is clear that there is a specific prohibition on an act 'reasonably likely to vilify another person or a group of persons'. That is new to Australian law. 'Vilify' is defined to mean 'incite hatred against a person or a group of persons'. If those are the sorts of issues you are concerned about, I wonder why it is that you are so critical of a government which, for the first time, proposes to bring a bill to this parliament to outlaw racial vilification.