New hate speech laws cracking down on 'dehumanising' rhetoric will go to constitutional limit, Tony Burke says

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : There are already state laws that have criminalised serious vilification of race or religion, and a federal civil penalty for vilification under the Race Discrimination Act.
41% : The government hasn't singled out organisations that could be listed under the new hate speech regime although the Islamic political organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir and neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network could be possible targets.
33% : The New South Wales treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, said the slogan - which means uprising or resistance, and is used by Palestinians to describe uprisings against Israel - was an example of hate speech.

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