Australia politics live: house agrees to mandatory minimum sentences for hate crimes; Dutton says Trump a ‘big thinker’
Lower house of parliament approves amendment to add mandatory minimum sentencing for hate crimes. Follow the latest updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastUnited Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, tells ABC RN Breakfast Donald Trump’s statement the US “will take over” Gaza is “utterly unlawful”.The implications is that the president of the United States says that it’s country [is] ready to commit an act of aggression.It’s pathetic … I think that there are many countries which have a word to say about the two state solution, and then they do not even recognise the state of Palestine. If Australia is not ready to recognise the state of Palestine, it has nothing to say about the two state solution, it has nothing to contribute with when it comes to the two state solution, but it still has obligations under international law not to aid and assist a system that is committing international crimes.There really is no discretion here. We have set a mandatory minimum sentence. The judges are free to impose sentences a lot longer than those mandatory minimums, and there’ll be some cases where that’s very necessary for very serious terrorism offences, people can be jailed for 20 years or more Continue reading...
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United Nations special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, tells ABC RN Breakfast Donald Trump’s statement the US “will take over” Gaza is “utterly unlawful”.
The implications is that the president of the United States says that it’s country [is] ready to commit an act of aggression.
It’s pathetic … I think that there are many countries which have a word to say about the two state solution, and then they do not even recognise the state of Palestine. If Australia is not ready to recognise the state of Palestine, it has nothing to say about the two state solution, it has nothing to contribute with when it comes to the two state solution, but it still has obligations under international law not to aid and assist a system that is committing international crimes.
There really is no discretion here. We have set a mandatory minimum sentence. The judges are free to impose sentences a lot longer than those mandatory minimums, and there’ll be some cases where that’s very necessary for very serious terrorism offences, people can be jailed for 20 years or more Continue reading...
