In Queensland, the phrases “river to sea” and “globalizing the intifada” can no longer be used to threaten or offend anyone under legislation passed by the state parliament on Thursday.

Under the changes, it will be considered an offense to use language that threatens, harasses or offends the public.

The new law includes written and verbal use of phrases such as chants and placards at protests, punishable by up to two years in prison.

The banned phrase was deemed anti-Semitic by the state government.

The bill originally left room for the attorney general to ban speech that incites violence, harm or attack.

of Crisafulli’s government changed the law at the last minuteon the eve of Congress being in session for a week, to specifically prohibit two expressions.

The change in policy meant additional language needed to be passed into law.

The Labor Opposition voted against the bill.

“Decisive action”

Police Minister Dan Purdy told Parliament on Thursday that the legislation is necessary and strong.

“Jews in Queensland simply don’t feel safe. They don’t feel protected,” he said.

“This government is committed to ensuring all Queenslanders live free from hate and violence.”

Mr Purdy said the government was taking “decisive action” by putting this language into law.

Mr Purdy said the state government had always made clear it only intended to ban two phrases.

“We never wavered in our intentions,” he said.

“In fact, we have repeatedly stated that we are not proposing to ban any other expressions.”

The law also includes restrictions on symbols and the crime of intimidation at places of worship, which carries a penalty of up to seven years in prison.

gun control changes

Purdy said the state’s new gun regulations include “state-directed penalties for misuse of firearms.”

“This bill takes a wide range of measures. [are] Designed to improve community safety. ”

The bill is part of the state government’s response to December’s Bondi Beach terrorist attack, and includes another part focused on major changes to gun regulations.

These include requiring new gun license applicants to be Australian citizens.

It also includes changes that increase penalties for various firearms offenses related to theft and trafficking, as well as new offenses specifically for shooting from a vehicle in a place of worship.

Queensland will not take part in the federal gun buy-back plan introduced in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack.

“A complete fake”

During the debate, shadow police minister Glenn Butcher raised concerns that the original bill “went too far in criminalizing free speech and not enough on gun reform”.

“The consultation on this bill was a complete sham, and now last-minute amendments have been announced,” he told parliament on Tuesday.

The Labor Opposition said it first saw the amendments, which included the two words, on Wednesday afternoon.

Mr Butcher said the Labor leader wrote to the state government in December offering bipartisan support for legislation in response to the Bondi Beach terror attack.

He said the LNP government had rejected the offer.

“We believe in free speech, we believe in gun reform legislation, and we believe more needs to be done in this Congress to strengthen the laws against defamation and hate speech,” said Gladstone.

“We owe it to current and future generations to get these laws right, not rush them.”

In a submission on the bill, the Islamic Council of Queensland (ICQ) suggested the bill posed a threat to civil liberties and political expression.

ICQ said the two phrases are understood by the community “not as an incitement to physical violence, but as a call for justice, democracy and equal treatment of all people in the Holy Land.”

In a submission, the Queensland Jewish Deputies Committee (QJBD) said the phrase played a key role in incidents aimed at intimidating Jews.

They said it was essential that the use of slogans promoting “Jewish hatred and violence” be addressed through reasonable and proportionate legal measures.