Senate debates

Wednesday, 12 February 2025

Questions without Notice

Hate Speech

2:55 pm

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

I'm surprised that the opposition want to contest the fact that we've taken this action, because only last week they voted with us to pass that legislation. The reality is that, in Australia's laws, we've always had a number of restrictions on freedom of speech within Australia. We've got defamation laws, which prevent people from going out there and saying defamatory things about people. We've got laws around the contempt of court, which also restrict people's—

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