“The pre-existing laws already contained a range of safeguards to ensure charities stayed within the law.”
Katrina Bullock, general counsel for Greenpeace Australia, said it was clear the government’s intent was to target protesters.
“Two of the three examples in the explanatory memorandum are about protest activity, which I think makes clear this is an attack on protest,” Bullock said.
“It’s pretty wild. It broadens de-registration to summary offences and if you start to have a look at what are summary offences, you’ll see pretty quick how low the bar is. In South Australia, for example, it is a summary offence to leave a farm-gate door open – that’s enough to have an entire charity deregistered.
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