{"id":195311,"date":"2025-04-04T11:20:20","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=195311"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T01:20:21","slug":"hate-speech-law-passes-parliament-in-victoria-dilutes-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=195311","title":{"rendered":"Hate speech law passes parliament in Victoria dilutes free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victoria has passed strict new anti-vilification laws, with penalties of up to five years in prison for so-called &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The expanded laws now cover gender identity, sex, and sexual orientation\u2014but include a controversial \u201cSam Kerr clause\u201d to prevent them from being \u201cweaponised against their intended purpose.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greens MP Gabrielle de Vietri defended the amendment, saying it ensures that &#8220;First Nations and marginalised communities&#8221; are not unfairly targeted, while Animal Justice MP Georgie Purcell argued it would keep the laws \u201caccessible for the communities who need them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But with such broad definitions and selective protections, who really decides what counts as \u2018hate speech\u2019\u2014and who gets punished?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>with News Max<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria has passed strict new anti-vilification laws, with penalties of up to five years in prison for so-called &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":195310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[993,14036,8],"class_list":["post-195311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-melbourne","tag-sam-kerr","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195313,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195311\/revisions\/195313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}