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Paul Scarr says parliament should be recalled to implement antisemitism laws

The shadow minister for immigration, citizenship and multicultural affairs, Paul Scarr, is speaking on RN now, where he said parliament should be recalled to implement new antisemitism laws:

Given what happened last Sunday, given the urgency of this matter, given the calls from the Australian community, in particular from the Jewish community, I think a strong message needs to be sent that parliament is being recalled and we’re tackling these issues as an urgency.

And we do whatever we can. We do whatever we can in the immediate term and then we continue the work into the new year.

These actions that we are taking will ensure that we have the strongest laws the country has ever had to combat antisemitism and the preaching of hate speech in our community. So there’ll be no excuses in the future.

And we’re providing our police, our security and intelligence organisations with the tools to prosecute people if they undertake these activities.

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Source: www.theguardian.com

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