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

As I have started to explain, they will do so by introducing a prohibition on racial vilification under Commonwealth law, and that term will be defined as 'the incitement of racial hatred'. The Commonwealth law has had a gap; the Racial Discrimination Act has had a gap in lacking such a prohibition hitherto. I wonder why all of those on the Labor side and the Greens side of politics has spent all this time accusing this government of proposing to weaken the provisions of the Racial Discrimination Act when in fact, when it comes to the core question—that is, introducing a provision to deal with racial vilification and the incitement of racial hatred—we have completed the act by inserting provisions that did not exist before.