NSW will not implement recommendation of long-awaited hate speech report – as it happened

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · Aug 04, 2026 · 3199 words · By Nick Visser; Achol Arok; Jordyn Beazley; Penry Buckley; Melissa Davey; Donna Lu; Andrew Messenger; Nino Bucci; Jack Snape; Benita Kolovos; Patrick Commins; Tom McIlroy; Luca Ittimani; Josh Taylor; Kat Wong

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Minns government will not implement recommendation of long-awaited hate speech report Penry Buckley The NSW government will not expand a controversial offence for inciting hatred to include religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, against the…

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Why it matters

In a statement this afternoon, the NSW attorney general, Michael Daley, said the government was today releasing the report by former supreme court justice John Sackar, firstprovided to the government in November.

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In the report, Sackar has recommended that section 93ZAA of the NSW Crimes Act, an offence for inciting hatred on the grounds of race, brought in last year against the recommendation of the NSW Law Reform Commission, be “amended to included all attributes…

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Claim 1: “Thomas Bradley, aQueensland supreme court judge, will be appointed Queensland’s new governor.”

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Multiple sources, including ABC News and reports on Premier David Crisafulli's announcement, confirm Justice Thomas Bradley's appointment as the 28th Governor of Queensland.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Judges who have served on the Supreme Court of Queensland, as of February 2019, include: Chief Justice of Queensland Judges of the Court of Appeal Judges
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of Queensland is the highest court in the Australian state of Queensland. It was formerly the Brisbane Supreme Court, in the colony of Queensland. The original jurisdiction of the Su…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Thomas Joseph Bradley KC is an Australian judge. He was appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2018 and in 2025 was appointed to the Queensland Court of Appeal. In 2026 it was announced he wo…
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Claim 2: “It’s the first time doctors have taken protected industrial action in the area in 20 years.”

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Claim 3: “At least 1,539 children from 984 families are known to have spent time homeless in Brisbane in the last year.”

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Claim 4: “household spending in June [increased by] 0.8%, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.”

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Claim 5: “The shadow attorney general, Damien Tudehope, has admitted to leaking a confidential draft report from a parliamentary inquiry to a member of the Reformers.”

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Claim 6: “EV sales doubled in the space of three months”

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Claim 7: “The Australian Medical Association Victoria branch said doctors will engage in a stop-work action on Thursday 13 August, affecting hospitals across the Melbourne CBD and in Parkville.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a stop-work action by AMA Victoria doctors on August 13.

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Claim 8: “The chief executive of the Bureau of Meteorology has commissioned an independent review of the agency”

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Claim 9: “NSW police have arrested and charged two men after one of them allegedly brandished a fake replica gun, wearing a bulletproof vest with a US flag and carrying a toy police badge, at a busy Sydney entertainment precinct.”

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Multiple news sources report the arrest of two men in Sydney's Entertainment Quarter involving a replica gun, a bulletproof vest with a US flag, and a toy police badge.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Greater Sydney is the most populous metropolitan area in Australia and Oceania. Located in the state of New South Wales, it encompasses the state capital, Sydney, including the City of Sydney local go…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about 80 kil…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Sydney Metro is an automated rapid transit system in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It currently consists of one route, the Metro North West & Bankstown Line, running between Tallawong and Sy…
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Claim 10: “the government was today releasing the report by former supreme court justice John Sackar, firstprovided to the government in November”

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The Guardian and other news reports confirm that Attorney-General Michael Daley announced the release of the report by former Supreme Court Justice John Sackar, which was originally provided to the government in November.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Rich was one of the biggest civil cases in NSW Supreme Court history, in which the Australian Securities and Investments Commission accused former ex…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Judges who have served on the Supreme Court of NSW as of February 2020 include : Current judges Chief justices of NSW Presidents of the NSW Court of Appeal Chief judges in equity Chief judges in comm…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court of New South Wales is the highest state court of the Australian state of New South Wales. It has unlimited jurisdiction within the state in civil matters, and hears the most serious …
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Claim 11: “Section 93Z, the offence for inciting violence, covers offences committed on the basis of someone’s race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex or HIV/Aids status.”

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Multiple sources, including The Guardian and legal-focused web results, confirm that Section 93Z covers inciting violence based on race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, or HIV/Aids status.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New South Wales Anti–Discrimination Act 1977 is an Act of the NSW Parliament, relating to discrimination in employment, the public education system, delivery of goods and services, and other servi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is often conflated, in laws and in discussion, with criminal exposu…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Prostitution in Australia is governed by state and territory laws, which vary considerably, although none ban the selling of sex itself. Tasmania, Western Australia and South Australia operate under …
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Claim 12: “Sackar has recommended that section 93ZAA of the NSW Crimes Act... be “amended to included all attributes currently protected by section 93Z””

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The Guardian and other reports explicitly state that Justice Sackar recommended amending section 93ZAA of the NSW Crimes Act to include all attributes currently protected by section 93Z.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The gay gang murders are a series of anti-LGBT hate crimes perpetrated by large gangs of youths in Sydney, between 1970 and 2010, with most occurring in 1989 and 1990. The majority of these occurred a…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Robertson Sackar is a retired judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. Sackar is an Australian King's Counsel who has also appeared in the courts of London and Brunei, including before the…
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Claim 13: “In the past year, 2,326 individuals experienced homelessness, 985 of them for the first time.”

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Claim 14: “The NSW government will not expand a controversial offence for inciting hatred to include religion, sexual orientation or gender identity”

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Multiple independent sources (The Guardian, Attorney-General Michael Daley via news reports, and Jimboomba) confirm that the NSW government rejected the expansion of hate speech laws to include religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

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web search NEUTRAL — The NSW government will not expand a controversial offence for inciting hatred to include religion, sexual orientation or gender identity, against the recommendation of a report which it has been sitt…
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/aug/04/…

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web search NEUTRAL — "The NSW government has decided not to expand the existing criminal offence of inciting racial hatred to apply to additional protected attributes," Attorney-General Michael Daley said.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mr Sackar recommended the offence be expanded to include other attributes to stop perceptions of a "hierarchical, two-tier model of protection". Those attributes include race, religion, sexual orienta…
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Claim 15: “Guardian Australia revealed that the full cost of the website overhaul was approximately $86m”

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Claim 16: “Australians lodged nearly 120,000 complaints with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority in the most recent financial year”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the number of complaints lodged with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority.

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Claim 17: “The NSW upper house passed a unanimous motion... which requires the government to release documents.”

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Claim 18: “Bradley will replace the former state chief health officer Jeannette Young, who has served in the role since 2021.”

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Sources confirm that Justice Bradley replaces Dr. Jeannette Young, who has served as Governor since November 1, 2021. While the claim mentions her as 'former state chief health officer', evidence confirms she held that role from 2005 to 2021 before becoming Governor.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jeannette Rosita Young AC PSM is an Australian medical doctor and administrator who has served as Governor of Queensland since 1 November 2021. Before being sworn in as governor, Young was Chief Healt…
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web search NEUTRAL — Dr Jeanette Young served as governor from November 2021. (ABC News: Christopher Gilette). "I look forward to sitting down, as Her Excellency's schedule suits, to speak with the existing governor to le…
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/qld-new-queensland-go…

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web search NEUTRAL — Dr Young has been acknowledged for her service to Queensland during her term as Governor. Justice Bradley is expected to take office following the formal swearing-in ceremony later this year.
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Claim 19: “The new Victorian premier, Ben Carroll, has had his new cabinet sworn in today”

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Multiple sources (Xinhua, The Guardian) confirm that Ben Carroll was sworn in as the 50th Premier of Victoria and that his new cabinet was sworn in at Government House.

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web search NEUTRAL — MELBOURNE, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Ben Carroll was sworn in as the 50th premier of the southeastern Australian state of Victoria on Tuesday after Jacinta Allan resigned ahead of an expected challenge to h…
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web search NEUTRAL — It’s been exactly one week since Ben Carroll became Victorian premier, promising to differentiate himself from his predecessors Jacinta Allan and Daniel Andrews. With his new cabinet sworn in at Gover…
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web search NEUTRAL — Ben Carroll has been sworn in as Victoria's 50th premier, after a chaotic Labor caucus meeting that saw a surprise nomination and yelling being heard from the party room. Look back on how the day unfo…
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