Under the amendments approved on Thursday, offering hateful symbols or offering Nazi salute, can now be sentenced to at least one year imprisonment.
Other penalties include at least three years to finance terrorism and six years to commit or plan terrorist operations.
Former Labor Senator Kim Car criticized the party, saying that “a clear violation of the Labor Party’s national platform”.
Labor opposes the mandatory punishment on the basis that such fines does not diminish crime, does not harm the freedom of the courts and is often practically discriminated against.
But the opposition parties also did not rush to welcome the new amendments, and alleged that the labor dragged his feet on the amendment.
Liberal Senator James Patterson told reporters in Canberra, “Parliament is not working today because of the Labor Party’s decisiveness.”
“The Prime Minister has finally introduced a strict legislation to kick and scream, which will ensure that there are real penalties for this behavior.”
Nazi salute has been banned from January 2024 and has been in jail for a year from displaying symbols of Nazi hatred. The amendments made on Thursday have been declared mandatory.
Interior Minister Tony Burke said Wednesday night, Interior Minister Tony Burke said, “This is not about politics.” “It is about whether the Australian Parliament believes that it is acceptable to threaten or commit violence against another person because who they are, whom do they pray or who love them?”
In recent months, there have been several attacks on Jewish targets in Australia.
Last week, authorities found a caravan in Sydney that contained a note of explosives and an enmity. The discovery came just a week later, when a children’s care center and synagogue were set on fire near a Jewish school in Sydney and anti -esteemic grafts were visible on the wall.
In December, a synagogue in Melbourne was prepared with inside worshipers. No one was seriously hurt in the incident, but he sent shock waves across the country.
