“Right now in Sydney, if you're a Muslim woman sitting on a train and someone yells at you for wearing a hijab, you've got no protection under the law from that.”
What RMIT ABC Fact Check found
Ms Plibersek's claim is overreach. There are no religious vilification laws at either a state or federal level which would protect someone in NSW from vilification as described by Ms Plibersek, but experts told Fact Check other legislation could come into play. For example, laws governing offensive language in public and behaviour on public transport could offer the woman some protection against the harassment described. As one expert said, there was "nothing to stop the use of [offensive lan...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tanya Plibersek (Shadow Minister for Education and Women) made this claim around 10 February 2022. RMIT ABC Fact Check (Australia) looked into it and published its finding on 17 March 2022, 35 days later. Its rating was “Overreach”.
Tanya Plibersek has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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