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New hate speech laws in focus as social cohesion frays

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Anti-Semitic graffiti scrawled on the perimeter fence of a Jewish school has been condemned by the prime minister as the government considers tougher penalties for hate speech.

The wall of the Jewish school in Melbourne’s east was vandalised with an anti-Semitic message on Friday evening, prompting Anthony Albanese to declare there was “no place for this in Australia or anywhere else” on social media platform X.

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