Minns must release report on hate speech laws

April 2, 2026 — 5:21pm

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The Minns government’s hate speech legislation, rushed in response to a series of antisemitic incidents including a terrorist scare that turned out to be a criminal scam, faces fresh scrutiny after the refusal by police to prosecute a neo-Nazi leader who made the spurious claim that the Jewish community paid bikies to firebomb synagogues for political gain.

The Herald’s Jessica McSweeney and Patrick Begley reported that Joel Davis, a leader of the now disbanded National Socialist Network, shouted at a rally outside state parliament last November that the “Jewish lobby” and “Jewish-controlled media” had engineered a “fake antisemitism crisis” to justify hate speech laws and........

© The Sydney Morning Herald