{"id":31191,"date":"2025-02-04T03:29:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T03:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=31191"},"modified":"2025-02-04T03:29:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T03:29:56","slug":"greens-will-support-hate-crimes-bill-to-strengthen-protections-for-vulnerable-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/greens-will-support-hate-crimes-bill-to-strengthen-protections-for-vulnerable-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens will support Hate Crimes Bill to strengthen protections for vulnerable communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian Greens have confirmed their support for the&nbsp;<em>Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill,&nbsp;<\/em>recognising it as a step in strengthening protections for vulnerable and targeted communities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greens will move amendments recommended in the Bill\u2019s Senate Inquiry Report, including adding disability as a protected attribute in hate symbols offences, extending protections to associates of protected groups, and updating language around gender and sexuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and Spokesperson for Anti-racism:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens will support Labor\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Hate Crimes Bill<\/em>&nbsp;as it ensures stronger protections for vulnerable and targeted groups. It is a considered piece of legislation which is a step towards combating hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will move amendments proposed in the Bill Senate Inquiry Report to include disability as a protected attribute in hate symbols offences and to extend protections for associates of protected groups, as well as to update language around gender and sexuality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe will consider our position in relation to amendments moved by other parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Greens will continue to call for a national&nbsp;<em>Human Rights Act<\/em>, for the government to urgently and fully fund the implementation of the National Anti-Racism Framework to tackle all forms of racism, and for investment in responses to hate that are grassroots and community-led.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Greens have confirmed their support for the&nbsp;Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill,&nbsp;recognising it as a step in strengthening protections for vulnerable and targeted communities.&nbsp; The Greens will move amendments recommended in the Bill\u2019s Senate Inquiry Report, including adding disability as a protected attribute in hate symbols offences, extending protections to associates of protected &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/02\/04\/greens-will-support-hate-crimes-bill-to-strengthen-protections-for-vulnerable-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens will support Hate Crimes Bill to strengthen protections for vulnerable communities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31192,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31191\/revisions\/31192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}