{"id":73212,"date":"2026-02-16T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/rightwing-thinktank-joins-backlash-to-queenslands-vague-proposed-hate-speech-laws\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:50:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:20:38","slug":"rightwing-thinktank-joins-backlash-to-queenslands-vague-proposed-hate-speech-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/rightwing-thinktank-joins-backlash-to-queenslands-vague-proposed-hate-speech-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Rightwing thinktank joins backlash to Queensland\u2019s \u2018vague\u2019 proposed hate speech laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5f72fd79fad2a0deecc9dec78d35c4f4c470ede9\/383_0_3809_3049\/master\/3809.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=93713a82659c5c8f55e398599510952b\" alt=\"Rightwing thinktank joins backlash to Queensland\u2019s \u2018vague\u2019 proposed hate speech laws\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">Politics<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">Rightwing thinktank joins backlash to Queensland\u2019s \u2018vague\u2019 proposed hate speech laws<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">Institute of Public Affairs latest to raise free speech concerns over bill facing criticism from across the political divideFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThere is growing backlash to Queensland\u2019s antisemitism laws on all sides of politics, with rightwing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) the latest group to raise free speech concerns about the \u201cvague\u201d bill.Margaret Chambers, a research fellow at the IPA, said the bill would confer extraordinary power on a single minister to \u201cengage in censorship and the criminalising of opinions and debate\u201d on the basis of a subjective standard, without oversight by the courts. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2026\/feb\/16\/queensland-hate-speech-laws-ipa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics Rightwing thinktank joins backlash to Queensland\u2019s \u2018vague\u2019 proposed hate speech laws Institute of Public Affairs latest to raise free speech concerns over bill facing criticism from across the political divideFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThere is growing backlash to Queensland\u2019s antisemitism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":73213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75919,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73212\/revisions\/75919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}