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Premier Jacinta Allan and then Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes announced the new laws in November.

Hate speech laws pass parliament as Liberals claim freedom of speech is at risk

The long-awaited reforms will make serious vilification – such as incitement of hatred or physical threats – punishable by up to five years’ jail.

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Premier Chris Minns has been criticised over ‘cruel’ new hate speech laws which will exclude the LGBTIQ+ community from protection

NSW Labor slammed for ‘cruel’ new hate speech laws that won’t protect LGBTIQ community

After weeks spent foreshadowing new anti-vilification laws in defiance of a recommendation from the state’s expert legal body, Minns announced on Thursday that he will move to criminalise hate speech when parliament resumes next week. 

  • Michael McGowan
Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich

MP accuses NSW Police of leaking ‘confidential details’

Independent Sydney MP Alex Greenwich is concerned the leak will discourage members of the LGBTQ community from reporting hate speech.

  • Michael McGowan

The secret reason behind Mardi Gras move to ban NSW police

A motivated, radical group wants Mardi Gras to be more exclusionary. Less radical queers are now the enemy.

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Premier Jacinta Allan and Attorney-General Jaclyn Symes with members of multicultural and advocacy groups on Tuesday.

‘United against American-style division’: Long-awaited anti-vilification reforms reach parliament

Premier Jacinta Allan has detailed the changes, which include up to five years’ jail for inciting hateful or threatening behaviour.

  • Carla Jaeger and Kieran Rooney
Trans rights activists protest against gender critical philosopher Kathleeen Stock outside the Oxford Student Union.

Allan government faces showdown with faith groups over hate laws

It is also facing opposition from women’s sex-based rights groups concerned that the proposed new laws will be weaponised by trans activists.

  • Chip Le Grand
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‘We fundamentally failed’: Apology for victims, survivors of hate crimes

The NSW government has supported all 19 recommendations of a world-first inquiry into gay-hate crimes.

  • Max Maddison
Mick Fuller told Steve Johnson and his wife Rosemarie over Zoom that an arrest for Scott’s murder was imminent.

Three miraculous words transformed everything for Steve and his family

After 32 years, Steve Johnson finally got the news he’d been fighting for: the man who killed his brother was in custody.

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Scott Johnson and his brother Steve.

I thought I knew the brilliant Johnson brothers, but Steve had more to reveal

As he fought to have them investigate his brother’s death, police resented Steve Johnson’s wealth, but he wasn’t born to money.

  • Rick Feneley
Official apology by the NSW Parliament to those arrested in 1978 at the gay march. Members of the original gay march, known as ’78ers’ attended the apology in the Legislative Chamber.

We commend Minns for committing to an apology to LGBTQ community

Herald senior reporter Andrew Hornery has spent several weeks talking to some who found themselves on the wrong side of the law against homosexuality in NSW.

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