00:00It's been more than two months since Parliament last met, a chance to catch up on all the
00:07news from the break.
00:09I inform the House that the Governor accepted the resignation of the Honourable Joanna Elizabeth
00:14Halen MP as Minister for Transport.
00:18Jo Halen's move to the backbench still a source of regret for Chris Minns.
00:22The truth of the matter is, Mr Speaker, I should have changed the guidelines around
00:25ministerial drivers as soon as we got into Parliament.
00:27Reflecting on the summer, the Premier turned to a far darker chapter, the spate of anti-Semitic
00:33attacks he's described as depraved and shameful.
00:36A holy synagogue defiled by a hateful swastika, a childcare centre deliberately set on fire,
00:44Nazi slogans copied from the darkest pages of history spray-painted across Jewish cars
00:49and Jewish property.
00:51These attacks are a crisis of intolerance, a threat to social cohesion and a direct challenge
00:57to the values we all hold dear.
00:59The Government's introduced new laws to crack down on anti-Semitic graffiti so that courts
01:04can consider it a public act inciting violence.
01:07There'll be a doubling of sentences for displaying a Nazi symbol near a synagogue, Jewish museum
01:12or Jewish school with jail terms of up to two years, and the creation of a new offence
01:17for blocking a place of worship or harassing those coming and going.
01:21One of the key features of the Government's anti-Semitism crackdown is a plan to criminalise
01:26hate speech based on race.
01:28The Parliament has yet to see that proposal and Chris Mins is under pressure to expand it.
01:33Neo-Nazis and other hate-filled groups are targeting LGBTQ people and Jewish people.
01:40Just protecting one is extremely dangerous.
01:43The hate speech laws, and exactly who they'll protect, still a work in progress.
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