Family First is worried it may be banned as a \u201chate group\u201d after the Liberals backed Labor\u2019s antisemitism, hate and extremism laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are plenty of radical activist groups that don\u2019t like our advocacy for women\u2019s and children\u2019s rights or against mass immigration and want us shut down. Now they can claim woolly terms like \u2018social, economic and psychological harm\u2019 as justification to launch criminal proceedings against us,\u201d National Director Lyle Shelton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The minister has unprecedented powers to abandon due process and shut down organisations at the behest of activists who claim their feelings are hurt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a stake in the heart for free speech and freedom of religion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Shelton said he has been pursued through the courts for six years under Australia\u2019s existing regime of deeply flawed \u201chate speech\u201d laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Liberals voting for yet more ill-defined \u2018hate speech\u2019 laws will do little to stop Islamic terror, but it will entrap mainstream Australian groups who speak their minds on things like LGBTIQA+ child gender clinics, Islamic extremism and the traditional definition of marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After some promising signs last week, the Liberals abandoned the fight for freedom of speech and freedom of religion and capitulated in a late-night deal with Australia\u2019s most anti-free speech government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Shelton praised the Nationals and One Nation for voting against the new \u201chate speech\u201d bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Shelton welcomed the banning of Hizb ut-Tahrir, a terrorist group banned in many European and even in Islamic countries like Indonesia and Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Groups with links to terrorism have no place in Australia and Family First had long called for its banning here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inciting violence is where the line should be drawn when crafting hate speech laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sadly laws against inciting violence were not enforced or strengthened since Muslims and left wing activists started supporting Hamas in the wake of October 7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clearly the Albanese Government has used the antisemitism crisis it created to dust off its anti-free speech agenda with the Liberals happy to play the part of useful idiots in the latest clampdown on freedom in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Shelton said Family First was standing candidates at the upcoming South Australian, Victorian and NSW elections who will fight to repeal the anti-free speech provisions of state-based \u201chate speech\u201d laws so freedom can be restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Family First is worried it may be banned as a \u201chate group\u201d after the Liberals backed Labor\u2019s antisemitism, hate and extremism laws. There are plenty of radical activist groups that don\u2019t like our advocacy for women\u2019s and children\u2019s rights or against mass immigration and want us shut down. Now they can claim woolly terms like … Continue reading “Libs drive stake in the heart of free speech, endanger groups like Family First”<\/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-36979","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\/36979","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=36979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36980,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36979\/revisions\/36980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}