A Coalition Government will provide much needed leadership in tackling knife crime.
We will work with states and territories to develop uniform knife laws across all jurisdictions.
Laws which give police the powers to stop and search using detector wands – like Queensland’s ‘Jack’s Law’.
And laws which limit and restrict the sale and possession of knives to minors and dangerous individuals.
A Coalition Government will also make it an offence to use mobile phone and computer networks to cause an intimate partner or family member to fear for their personal safety, to track them using spyware, or engage in coercive behaviours.
We will toughen the bail laws that apply to these new Commonwealth offences.
A Coalition Government will make it illegal to post material glamourising violence, drug and property crimes to increase a person’s notoriety.
It will take a Coalition Government – once again – to stop the people smugglers and to deport criminals.
It will also take a Coalition Government to turn the tide of anti-Semitism afflicting our country.
Anti-Semitism is not just a threat to one segment of our community.
It’s a threat to our social cohesion and democratic values.
Some of the most strident anti-Semitic standard-bearers have come from our university campuses.
We will also provide the moral and political leadership which makes it abundantly clear that we expect the law to be enforced readily – not reluctantly – against those inciting hatred and violence.