> On Thursday, Attorney-General George Brandis introduced a new national security bill into the Senate. This is the fifth tranche of national security legislation to be introduced into parliament since July 2014.
This bill includes a host of new measures designed to address the evolving threat posed by terrorism. These include:
a new offence of advocacy of genocide;
amendments to the control order regime, so it applies to persons 14 years and older, and new measures to monitor controlees; and
clarification of the basis for issuing a preventative detention order.
But the bill’s most concerning aspect is the proposal to expand the secrecy provisions available to courts in control order proceedings.
- http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/nov/13/government-could-retrospectively-use-secret-evidence-in-anti-terror-hearings
THE federal government today (Thursday) introduced to Parliament a new criminal offence of advocating genocide, which could see offenders who publicly “counsel, promote, encourage or urge” genocide imprisoned for up to seven years.
“Yet advocacy of genocide does go on, unpunished, in Australia today – in particular, directed against Jewish people and against the State of Israel. It will no longer be lawful to engage in such conduct.”
http://www.jewishnews.net.au/new-legislation-on-advocating-genocide/50550