NSW Premier Chris Minns is facing criticism for not including a ban on radical Islamic extremism in new laws set to be introduced in response to the Bondi massacre.
Mr Minns recalled state parliament to sit on Monday and Tuesday where he plans to propose major gun reforms, protest bans that will last for up to three months without judicial oversight and allow police to remove face covering, and the outlawing of “hateful symbols” and chants such as “globalise the Intifada”.
Independent NSW MP Mark Latham, a former federal Labor leader, asked in an X post on Sunday why there was a bill tabled to ban Nazi ideology, but not the ISIS ideology that inspired the Bondi Islamic terrorists.
Why has the Minns Labor Government got a bill before NSW Parliament banning neo-Nazi ideology but nothing tomorrow, in the special pre-Christmas sitting, banning:
1. Radical Islamic Extremism promoting terrorism
2. Islamic hate preachers indoctrinating young people to become…— Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) December 20, 2025
“Nothing tomorrow, in the special pre-Christmas sitting, banning: 1. Radical Islamic Extremism promoting terrorism 2. Islamic hate preachers indoctrinating young people to become jihadis 3. Practices that pervert the nature of Islam to turn it into a dogma of hate, violence and martyrdom,” Mr Latham wrote.
“Forget all the pious words of sympathy about Bondi by Labor. They are not fair dinkum in standing up to Radical Islamic Terrorism.”
In a separate post he said: “Incredibly, there’s nothing in the Minns Government’s Terrorism Bill before State Parliament tomorrow that’s directly relevant to the way in which the two Akram ISIS jihadis shot up Bondi.
“It takes a special kind of political cynicism to exploit the Bondi tragedy by using it was a mechanism for legislating a wish list of unrelated draconian measures.”
One person replied: “Labor have realised it is much easier to solve a problem that doesn’t really exist (Nazis) as opposed to a massive problem that Labor helped create, (violent Islamic extremism).”
Another said: “They need to look after their Western Sydney Seats pandering to their ‘constituents’.”
“He is like Anthony Albanese. They don’t want to upset the 1% groups out of fear of losing votes which will cost them their jobs,” said a third commenter.
The Prime Minister last week announced new federal legislation cracking down on “hate speech” and racism along with a national gun buyback in response to the Bondi attack, and also faced criticism for failing to use the phrase “radical Islam” while repeatedly mentioning “neo-Nazis”.
Mr Minns’ Nazi ideology ban was proposed before the Bondi attack, in response to a National Socialist Network protest outside NSW parliament on November 8 that also led to Immigration Minister Tony Burke deporting demonstrator Matthew Gruter to South Africa, and arresting speaker Joel Davis for a Telegram post.
The Premier, who has repeatedly said that free speech is incompatible with multiculturalism and earlier this years rammed through “hate speech” laws in response to a hoax terror plot, was last month accused by a former Labor staffer of involvement in an illegal donations conspiracy a decade ago.
The matter was referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, the NSW Electoral Commission, and the state prosecutor’s office, but Mr Minns said he rejected “any suggestion of wrongdoing comprehensively”, and said the allegations had already been investigated.
Header image: Chris Minns at an interfaith memorial prayer service at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney on Wednesday (Facebook).
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