As a result, the commission is already inflaming existing political tensions. This is deeply unfortunate because it makes the ...

Probing the fixation with Israel must form part of the deliberations of the Bondi royal commission as it seeks out the ...

The announcement of a royal commission was necessary and welcome. But this cannot be where things end. We must be clear-eyed ...

Without a royal commission, many members of Australia’s Jewish community did not feel that we would properly be able to ...

A Macquarie University academic who researches Islamophobia and Palestine, Abdel-Fattah responded saying it was "a blatant ...

Australia's national parliament will cut short its summer break to pass laws tackling hate speech after the Bondi Beach mass ...

Federal parliament returns next Monday to debate a bill that the government hopes will combat antisemitism, hate speech and ...

Although the Royal Commission can discuss ‘religiously motivated extremism’, it will be reluctant to identify radical Islam.

Royal commissions are often held to confirm the obvious and squeak for modest change.  They offer no binding remedies, have ...

Hate speech should not be a Labor or Coalition issue and reforms due within days need to be embraced by all political parties ...

A cartoon by Cathy Wilcox, published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday, has been strongly criticised by ...

The proposed laws will also ease visa denials on the grounds of racial bigotry and lower the threshold for banning hate organizations, including neo-Nazi groups, officials said.