This shift marked a notable departure from Labor's long-running stance, with the party historically opposing mandatory sentences due to concerns about restricting judicial discretion. The Attorney ...

Displaying Nazi symbols will be punished with mandatory minimum sentences of a year. These swastikas were graffitied on a Sydney synagogue.Credit: Dion Georgopoulos Labor’s national platform ...

Sky News host Chris Kenny discusses Labor’s support for the Coalition’s push for minimum sentences for hate crimes. “Good news in the antisemitism front today,” Mr Kenny said.

Terrorism and hate symbol offences will now carry a mandatory minimum sentence after the federal government passed new laws that are a departure from the Labor Party's national platform.

The federal government has agreed to implement mandatory minimum jail sentences for terror crimes and the display of hate symbols. Amendments to the government's Hate ...

The government has buckled and agreed to legislate mandatory minimum sentences for terror offences in a bid to pass tougher hate crimes laws. Follow all the updates ...

When a 22-year-old Mike Wainwright joined Trafigura as an accounts assistant in 1996, the quietly spoken Englishman could hardly have imagined that three decades later he’d be making history. By the ...

Dhanu said judges don’t often grant conditional sentences, meaning there may have been some kind of extenuating circumstances, such as a mental health issue or victims being unwilling to testify.

There are Pansy Deacons all over the place. She’s the focus of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths – a vessel of formless rage played by Bafta nominee Marianne Jean-Baptiste. When a furniture store ...

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits fell last week in a sign that the ...

With Hard Truths, we may have another title for the pile. It's a surprising addition given the subject matter — no war crimes, flyblown corpses or sewn-up bear carcasses are to be found in ...