Link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-08/government-announces-hate-speech-reforms-antisemitism/106318730

The laws to be introduced in parliament this week will ban the phrases "globalise the intifada" and "from the river to the sea", as well as offensive symbols.

@Quokka Can't they see just how stupid this looks?Coal to Newcastle.Pants to everything.Don't be silly.

This touches on an important issue, but it is an appalling failure of an article from the ABC. I have just submitted my complaint to the ABC through their complaints form. Here is the text of my complaint, if anyone else wants to join in. (Please use your own words, but feel free to take inspiration from me.)

This article about a recently-announced law in the Queensland Parliament is woefully inadequate at representing a diversity of perspectives and maintaining impartial reporting, one of the most important principles of the ABC Code of Practice.

It fails to seek the input of any pro-Palestine groups, such as Justice for Palestine Magan-djin or the Jewish Council of Australia.

It fails to note the context in which phrases such as “globalise the intifada” and “from the river to the sea are used”—the ongoing genocide by the state of Israel of Palestinian people. Or to explain the meaning of these phrases as meant by the people using it—resistance against the genocide and support for the human rights of the Palestinian people.

Instead, the article completely implicitly accepts the false premise of the Government's position: that these are terrorist phrases, that criticism of Israel is antisemitic, and that the opinions of zionists are the only ones worth considering.

Ned Hammond's article quotes the Opposition's tepid support for the policy, but not the voices of those actually affected. In so doing, it fails ABC Standards 4.1 “Gather and present news and information with due impartiality”, 4.2 “Present a diversity of perspectives...so that no significant strand of thought or belief within the community is knowingly excluded or disproportionately represented”, and 4.5 “Do not unduly favour one perspective over another.”

This is an appalling failure to represent the voices of anti-genocide, anti-zionist protestors, and is yet another in a string of failures of the ABC to resist pressure from the pro-Israel lobby.

Sadly the ABC doesn't give a fuck, they've been pro-genocide this whole time and made it perfectly clear where their biases lay.

The MSM in this country needs to die off. Michael West and Independent Australia are the only sources I bother to actually read these days.

I sent them a complaint as well, not because I expect anything from them but to amplify your own message.

I also wrote an email (I usually prefer physical letters, but the turnaround time on this one meant I wanted it received asap) to my (Labor) state MP.
Got a lazy form response in reply.

More details on that in the !brisbane thread.

Thank you for taking the time to send your feedback about the report on Queensland Parliament's proposed hate laws.

A spokesperson for the Justice for Palestine was interviewed later in the afternoon on the day of the announced reforms.  Her comments were included in the video version of the story and should have been sent through to our digital team to be added to the online story.  This didn't happen.  It was an error and after receiving your complaint I asked the team to amend the article.  A quote from the Justice of Palestine spokesperson and an explanation of the contested nature of the phrases has been added, along with an editor's note identifying the update.

I've spoken directly with the journalists involved in an effort to ensure they learn from the mistake.

Once again, thanks for sending through your complaint which will help improve our work in future.

Aye, that was the response the ABC sent me. I think I already posted my Labor MP's office's much swifter response elsewhere in the thread.