Steve Price: Australian Correspondent on new hate speech laws in NSW and unofficial campaign launches from Dutton and Albanese

New hate speech laws have been strengthened in New South Wales after the latest antisemitic attack in Sydney. 

How will these laws be implemented? 

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and opposition leader Peter Dutton have made unofficial campaign launches without a date announced for the election. 

Australian Correspondent Steve Price joins the show to discuss the news happening across the ditch. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Steve Price is with us out of Australia this morning.
You hate speech laws, Steve, Good morning to you in
New South Wales.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah, today Ryan. This comes off the back, obviously of
the latest anti Semitic attack in the eastern suburbs of
Sydney that happened on Thursday night. There's now vision up
about the cars being fired Bond and the anti Jewish
sentiments being spread on the house of a formerly owned
by one of the senior Jewish spokesmen in Australia, Alex Rufchin.

(00:31):
And so Chrismins, the Premier is announced today that he'll
strengthen hate speech. A lot of people critical of these
laws exist and they're not used and so I mean
good on Chrismins for doing this, but will they actually
then be implemented. He said he was increasingly of the
view that hate speech was the initial spark of this

(00:52):
brazen antisemitism. You might remember, way back just after the
October seventh terror attack by Hamas, there was a gathering
on the steps of the Opera House in Sydney and
there was some conjecture about what was being chanted, but
it was certainly anti Semitic, and so he says the
governor's strength and the laws. If someone's preaching hatred in
the community that doesn't manifest itself two or three months

(01:14):
later in a fire, bombing or an attack or something worse,
no stone we left unturned. This will include bans on
protests that are scheduled to take place out of outside
religious institutions. So that's going to be pretty a pretty
big and significant change to those laws.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
I believe it certainly will be, and quite a job
for the police side to menge. The Dozen's unofficial campaign
launch taking off.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Yeah, both Dunton and Albaneza yesterday. Look, we've got an election.
We don't know the date. Our system is that it's
a floating date. The Prime Minister decides he has to
go by sometime before June this year. The conjecture is
that it will be probably April or May. But yesterday
Peter Dutton was in Bridgin, thin year's home state. He

(02:02):
made a major announcement that small businesses that turn over
less than ten million dollars a year will now be
able to claim back twenty thousand dollars as a tax
deduction on entertainment. Now we used to have a tax
deductible entertainment in this country. For Keating stopped that bought
in a fringe benefits tax and so your boss couldn't
take you out to lunch and fill you up with

(02:22):
red wine and give you a good stake and claimant
on his tax. Well that's going to come back in now.
Peter Dunton thinks that'll bring him some boats. While he
was doing that, Anthony o Aneasy was in the western
side of the Sydney with the new Southwales Premier christ
Wins I just mentioned, and they're going halves in a
billion dollar road widening project to Sydney's new second airport. Now,

(02:45):
this second airport, we've been talking about it since I
was in shorts at school. But it is being built
and it will be finished. But there's only a two
lane road that heads into that region at the moment,
and so they're going to spend a billion dollars. What's
this all about, Well, the road is needed. He was
probably already factored in and it was probably already announced,
but they've re announced it hoping that will bring some

(03:07):
votes for the western sobs of Sydney. The Labor Party
whenever that election.

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Is is Novak Djokovic right, where is he justified and
refusing to be interviewed by this Channel nine reporter.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
No I was there last night at the Djokovic match
and he would normally have a chitty chat with Jim
Courier live on the coverage. He grabbed the microphone off
Courier and said until he gets an apology from Channel nine,
he won't be appearing on any of which is a

(03:40):
bit ridiculous given nines to the actual tennis broadcaster, he
won't appear on air with anyone from Channel nine. Tony
Jones is a crusty old veteran sports reporter from Melbourne.
He was doing a live cross to nine News last
week and he had a joke about how Djokovic would

(04:01):
boot it out of Australia, who might remember he got
chucked out of the country during COVID. He then had
a bit of a crack at Serbian supporters. No one
was taking it seriously. Intil Novak decided to go on
line on his social feed and complain about it and
says he now won't appear on Channel nine, which is
a bit silly. He's now going to play Alcoraz in
the quarterfinals, which will be a massive match. I think

(04:24):
Channel you'll find Channel nine will be pretty quickly putting
Tony Jones out there today to apologize. But they really
shouldn't need to.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
All right, Steve, thanks so much for that, Steve Price,
our Australia correspondent, I thought to play you that clip
just so you can make up your own mind. So
there's to set the scene. Basically, a bunch of Drokovic
fans in the background and the Channel nine reporter is
doing a cross in front of them, and I don't
know throws a few slogans out there that are quite
derogatory towards Drokovic, including one referencing when he got booted

(04:54):
out of Australia a few years ago.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Have a listen the Novak Djokovic fans there in full
voice answer quite extredin Novack, he's overrated. No Vaksa has
the no back kick him in Oh, I'm glad they
can't hear me. I don't know, I don't know. For
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