The director-general and minister do not need to observe procedural fairness in either providing advice or listing a hate group, meaning affected parties will not have the right to dispute allegations against them before they are listed as a hate group.
Don’t have to consider procedural fairness?? So groups the Home Affairs Minister and Director General don’t like can be freely listed and defamed with no recourse. Theres a reason defamation payouts can get so large, but cunts in these two positions can now throw out a listing that is a whisker under terrorist status and its all cool 😎
They also have the powers to,
- deport or cancel the visas of individuals associated with hate groups,
- increase penalties for hate crime offences, and
- create new aggravated penalties for hate preachers and leaders who advocate violence.
“The great concern we have about banning organisations is there is no requirement for procedural fairness, known as natural justice.” “The executive always has to be subject to checks and balances, including by the courts — not to do so breaches the rule of law and is fundamentally undemocratic.” - Barrister Greg Barns
What the fuck are they doing. Laws like these can be used by capricious bad actors in the future. This smacks of the US Patriot Act level of democratic undermining.
“But our job is to find the people who are hiding themselves in society — and we’re good at that.” - ASIO Chief Mike Burgess
15 Australians have just been killed in the largest mass shooting since Port Arthur… on your fucken watch pal!! Cool your jets, put your head down, and do your job with a little more humility.
Where do certain foreign dignitaries fall if they are entering the country in these new laws if they are blatantly spreading hate? Are they also to be deported?
They may be firmly asked to leave, depending on what they do, but they’ll be exempt.
Has the Australian branch of the BDS movement announced that it is disbanding yet?
Hadn’t looked it up before.
From About Us page,
BDS is a peaceful and non-violent means to pressure the State of Israel to end the illegal occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the blockade of Gaza; to allow the internationally recognized Right of Return to Palestinian refugees to the land and homes from which Israel forcibly expelled them in 1948; and to ensure equal rights for all Palestinians living in Israel according to international law and human rights conventions.
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) is a strategy initiated in 2005 by 170 Palestinian civil society organisations calling for boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel’s government and those entities which support and benefit from its actions in relation to Palestinians, until such time as the Israeli government abides by international law and Palestinians are given the rights and freedoms they are entitled to. It is based on the successful South African anti-apartheid boycott movement of the 1970s and 80s.
