Philip Ruddock (Berowra, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Last year the government implemented the antiterrorism act and it included the offence of urging the use of force or violence against other groups of people in Australia—and I might say that measure was enacted despite the best efforts of the Labor Party to have it removed. As I have said before in relation to these matters, if the law needs to be further strengthened, that is what we will do. I have asked my department for some advice on that matter, in the light of some recent material about which it has been said that the measures that we enacted would not enable those publications to be dealt with. But one thing is clear: if the opposition had its way, there would be no laws dealing with this important issue in Australia today.

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