Australia’s spy boss will be given powers to recommend an organisation be proscribed as a hate group under the Labor government’s new religious vilification protections. The draft bill, which the government released on Tuesday, includes new hate speech and anti-vilification laws, powers to formally designate groups as proscribed organisations, and provisions for the largest gun buy-back scheme since the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. The neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Network posted to Telegram on Tuesday claiming it will disband before 11.59pm on 18 January, the day before the legislation will be introduced to parliament. Sign up: AU Breaking News email
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