Listen to Attorney-General Michelle Rowland's response to David Speers asking how the law to ban organisations is different to an authoritarian country.

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The idea that criminalizing criticism of Israel — banning the use of the words genocide or apartheid as “hate speech” — would have done anything to stop the ISIS attack at Bondi Beach is divorced from reality.

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Robert Barwick

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Jan 20

Listen to Attorney-General Michelle Rowland's response to David Speers asking how the law to ban organisations is different to an authoritarian country. No denial, just justification, using the age-old assurance of despots*: It's to keep you safe. *I won't invoke Godwin's Law.

8:17 AM · Jan 22, 2026

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