@MRowlandMP & @Tony_Burke wrote to Imams to reassure them that the new laws wont silence criticisms of foreign governments.
https://x.com/MaryKostakidis/status/2016327716052860941
If you’re interested in what you can now say without going to jail for 5, 10, or 15 years in Australia under opaque, tyrannical new laws, here is a little more insight into them.
The SMH reports today that & wrote to Imams to reassure them that the new laws wont silence criticisms of foreign governments.
Here is what is revealed by her comments about how the law is intended to operate in my view, with a link to article below, as well as the legislation 
‘Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has advised the Australian National Imams Council, the leading body representing Muslim religious leaders, that new hate laws will not prevent criticism of foreign countries or political ideologies despite concerns the laws could silence debate.
In a letter seen exclusively by this masthead and co-signed by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, Rowland told ANIC president Imam Shadi Alsuleiman that the legislation would not “prevent legitimate, non-violent criticism of the actions of a foreign country or of particular political ideologies”….
Rowland clarified in the letter that the new legislation did not “expand criminal offences for hate speech”, but had only increased penalties and incorporated “aggravating factors for particularly egregious and insidious forms of hate crime offending”.
“Crucially, those existing offences apply only where a person advocates or threatens force or violence against a group, members of a group, or their property or places of worship,” she wrote…
‘Attorney-General Michelle Rowland has advised the Australian National Imams Council, the leading body representing Muslim religious leaders, that new hate laws will not prevent criticism of foreign countries or political ideologies despite concerns the laws could silence debate.
In a letter seen exclusively by this masthead and co-signed by Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke, Rowland told ANIC president Imam Shadi Alsuleiman that the legislation would not “prevent legitimate, non-violent criticism of the actions of a foreign country or of particular political ideologies”….
Rowland clarified in the letter that the new legislation did not “expand criminal offences for hate speech”, but had only increased penalties and incorporated “aggravating factors for particularly egregious and insidious forms of hate crime offending”.
“Crucially, those existing offences apply only where a person advocates or threatens force or violence against a group, members of a group, or their property or places of worship,” she wrote…
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