Flip-flops on both sides of politics as hate laws and civil liberties clash
The battle to contain antisemitism in Australia finds both sides of politics embracing measures they would otherwise abhor.
Nazi salutes to be punished with jail under Australian hate crime laws
Australia has imposed a mandatory one-year prison sentence for performing the Nazi salute as part of an effort to tackle ...
Grattan On Friday: We Don't Need An Inquiry Into The Caravan Affair But We Do Need Some Answers
The battle to contain antisemitism in Australia finds both sides of politics embracing measures they'd otherwise abhor.Spectacularly, the ...
NSW Premier Chris Minns’ claims caravan bomb plot was terrorism yet to be stood by investigators
NSW Premier Chris Minns’ ­description of a caravan containing decades-old explosives and details of Jewish-Australians and a ­synagogue as a potential “mass-casualty event” and “terrorism” is yet to ...
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No Inquiry Needed, But Answers Urged in Caravan Affair
The battle to contain antisemitism in Australia finds both sides of politics embracing measures they'd otherwise abhor.Author Michelle Grattan ...
AFP grilled over decision to keep PM in dark on major terror investigation involving a caravan packed with explosives
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw has stonewalled MPs over why police failed to inform the Prime Minister about a major terror investigation involving a caravan packed with ...
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Peter Dutton demands inquiry into when Anthony Albanese was briefed about Dural caravan plot
Peter Dutton is demanding Anthony Albanese come clean on what he knew when about an anti-Semitic ‘mass casualty’ terror plot, ...
AFP boss declines to tell Senate whether PM was briefed on Dural caravan — as it happened
Deputy Commissioner Reece Kershaw says the Dural caravan investigation is ongoing, and a Senate investigation into the AFP's annual report is "not an appropriate forum" to discuss it.
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‘Inconceivable’: Call for probe into why PM left in dark
Liberal leader Peter Dutton has written to the Prime Minister to call for an independent inquiry into why Anthony Albanese was not briefed by the AFP or ASIO on a caravan packed with explosives and ...
Albanese defends backflip on mandatory minimum sentences for antisemitism offences
A communications breakdown between state and federal police kept Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the dark over the ...
Plot thickens on why Anthony Albanese won’t just say when he first learned of van bomb
Mr Albanese said anti-Semitism has “no place in our nation” and pledged that his government would fight the scourge with the ...
Police communications breakdown kept PM in the dark on caravan
After a day of fraught debate about antisemitism, Labor caved to a Coalition demand to create mandatory minimum sentences for ...