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Headlines: New laws to target Nazis in NSW · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Christinamie with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. The New South Wales government will rush
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  Speaker 1: through new laws that will make it illegal to utter
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  Speaker 1: Nazi slogans in public. That's after members of the National
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  Speaker 1: Socialist Network Nazi group rallied outside the state's parliament on
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  Speaker 1: the weekend. Here's what Premier Chris Mins had to say
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  Speaker 1: on Monday.
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  Speaker 2: This proves in my view that letting anti semitism and
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  Speaker 2: racism out of the bag in any context metastasizes in
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  Speaker 2: the community and results in more division and racism, not
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  Speaker 2: less not less so. The hate speech laws that we're
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  Speaker 2: pursued in the New South Wales Parliament, we believe are
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  Speaker 2: important and send the clear message that we are not
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  Speaker 2: going to stand for this kind of hatred in our
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  Speaker 2: community and we're going to take steps to get in
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  Speaker 2: the way of it and disrupt it.
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  Speaker 1: We might have misjudged it, that's the admission from the
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  Speaker 1: Reserve Bank Deputy Governor Andrew Hauser. He told investors O
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  Speaker 1: the rate cuts are looking unlikely due to limits on
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  Speaker 1: the economy's ability to supply enough goods and services to
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  Speaker 1: meet demand. Tributes are flowing for iconic talkback radio broadcaster
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  Speaker 1: John Laws, who died on Sunday. He was ninety. Prime
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  Speaker 1: Minister Anthony Albanizi, New South Wales Premier Chris Mins, Laws's
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  Speaker 1: former neighbor Russell Crowe, and his longtime rival Ray Hadley
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  Speaker 1: all reflected on his legacy.
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  Speaker 3: He was not just a legend, he was a radio
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  Speaker 3: icon and those who follow him and drink from the
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  Speaker 3: well like I have in the past, should remember the
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  Speaker 3: person who dug that well, and that will was dug
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  Speaker 3: by the great John Laws.
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  Speaker 1: Known for much of his decades long career as the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Tonsils, Laws only retired from talkback radio a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: His no holds barred approach to broadcasting fostered deep loyalty
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  Speaker 1: among Sydney radio listeners and also landed him in hot water.
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  Speaker 2: Hello world, this is John Lawd's a little dream of
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  Speaker 2: exquisite bliss. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: How fantastic to hear your voice?
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  Speaker 3: So? I don't think anybody cares to beat?
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  Speaker 1: Oh they do?
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  Speaker 2: Are they doing?
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  Speaker 1: It's time for a rest is what I think. Laws's
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  Speaker 1: reputation was shaken at the turn of the millennium when
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  Speaker 1: the so called cash for comment scandal broke, He never
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  Speaker 1: formally apologized for accepting payments from companies to present advertising
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  Speaker 1: on air as editorial content. He was born in the
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  Speaker 1: New Guinea Highlands in nineteen thirty five and began his
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  Speaker 1: working life as a jackaroo in regional and remote parts
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  Speaker 1: of Australia. Ever, the entertainer Laws took to life behind
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  Speaker 1: the mic after singing at a ball in Wellington in
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  Speaker 1: the New South Wales Central West Slopes region. He famously
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  Speaker 1: later commuted to and from two yui's Sydney offices in
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  Speaker 1: his rolls Royce Phantom. Laws is survived by two sons
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  Speaker 1: and five step daughters, as well as his grandchildren. Check
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  Speaker 1: out those stories live right now at the Australian dot
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  Speaker 1: Com dot a U and come back to the front
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  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for a look at the
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  Speaker 1: moment that changed Australian politics and Australia forever, the dismissal
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  Speaker 1: of the Whitlam government fifty years ago.