Equality Tasmania has welcomed a review of Tasmania’s hate crime laws with a view to tougher penalties if crime is motivated by anti-LGBTIQA+ hate. Currently, penalties for hate-motivated crimes can only be tougher if racial hatred is involved. The Sentencing Board has proposed this be extended to include prejudice and hatred on the basis of […]
Category: Justice/Policing
EQUALITY TASMANIA WELCOMES NATION-LEADING ANTI-NAZI LAW
Hopes long history of Nazi attacks on state’s LGBTIQA+ community will end Equality Tasmania has welcomed the passage of an anti-Nazi law that is the best in the nation. Equality Tasmania president, Rodney Croome, said, “LGBTIQA+ Tasmanians have been subject to harassment from Nazi sympathisers using Nazi symbols at least since the 1970s.” “Harassment using […]
CALL FOR LEADERS TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST HATE AS TRANS MEMORIAL VANDALISED
A memorial to a Tasmanian trangender woman has been vandalised with a hateful anti-trans slogan, prompting calls for Tasmania’s leaders to speak out against anti-trans hate. A memorial to Marjorie Harwood who died after an anti-trans sexual assault in Hobart’s Risdon Prison has been spray-painted with an anti-trans slogan, “YWNBAW”, which is an acronym for “you […]