Libs Amend Labor’s Laws to Counter Extremism, Antisemitism
In the national interest, the Liberal Party has today stepped up to fix legislation that the Albanese Government badly mishandled.
For more than two years, the Albanese Government failed to confront the rising tide of antisemitism and failed to keep Australians safe.
That failure was exposed by the worst terrorist attack on Australian soil and when leadership was required, the Prime Minister did not provide it.
Instead, Labor produced a clumsy and deeply flawed package of legislation that collapsed under scrutiny, divided the Parliament and risked encroaching on fundamental freedoms.
After months of exclusion and arrogance, the Prime Minister was forced to come to the Liberal Party to fix legislation he could not draft properly and could not deliver alone.
From the outset, we said we would be constructive, and we have been.
As a result of Liberal Party action, the legislation has been narrowed, strengthened and properly focused on keeping Australians safe, not political point scoring.
The key changes secured by the Liberal Party narrow the legislative focus to combatting antisemitism and radical Islamist extremism by:
These changes strengthen the law, close loopholes and restore clarity and accountability.
The Liberal Party will always strongly defend freedom of thought, freedom of worship and freedom of speech.
Those freedoms define who we are as a nation, and they must be defended even when the task before us is confronting hatred and extremism.
As a direct result of the Liberal Party’s veto, Labor’s attempt to criminalise free speech is no more.
The Liberal Party will always act to keep Australians safe, defend freedoms and put the national interest first.
We have succeeded in narrowing the scope of this bill to deal with what we said it should do – tackle antisemitism and tackle radical Islamist extremism.
https://www.liberal.org.au/2026/01/20/liberal-party-fixes-labors-failed-laws-to-combat-islamist-extremism-and-tackle-antisemitism
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