Australia enacts stringent anti-hate crime laws in response to sharp uptick in incidents of antisemitism in the country.

Terrorism and hate symbol offences will now carry a mandatory minimum sentence after the federal government passed new laws that are a departure from the Labor Party's national platform.

Australians convicted of displaying a terrorist symbol in public will spend at least a year in jail, under a new hate speech law passed in Parliament on Thursday.

Weeks after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announced his support for mandatory minimum jail terms for antisemitic offenses, ...

Federal Parliament has passed what the government calls Australia’s toughest laws against hate speech and hate crimes. Labor ...

The battle to contain antisemitism in Australia finds both sides of politics embracing measures they would otherwise abhor.

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The amendment to the legal framework has prompted a wave of anti-Semitic attacks that have opened a major debate in the country ...

Australia has imposed a mandatory one-year prison sentence for performing the Nazi salute as part of an effort to tackle ...

PM Albanese’s government has approved measures in the House of Representatives that will create new and bolstered hate crime offences.

Australia significantly toughened its laws against hate crimes on Thursday, adopting amendments that make prison sentences ...

Australia has passed tough laws to tackle hate crimes, after a spate of antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne. The new ...