Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, Senator Rennick. I did notice that, overnight, Sam Kerr was actually cleared of the charges against her, so I'm not going to stand in the way of a British court and a British jury making the decision that she was not guilty of the criminal offence that she was charged with. You ask the broader question about hate speech. Our government is proud of the fact that we've taken serious action to restrict hate speech at a time in Australia when we are seeing too much division in the community and we are seeing antisemitic attacks take place. We are seeing Islamophobic attacks take place. And we are seeing a range of other racial slurs meted out against members of our community, and that should not happen.