State capture was on display last week, with the contrasting treatment of two very different issues in the Federal and NSW parliaments. Andrew Gardiner reports.
A Sydney synagogue was defaced with red swastikas last month. Proposed NSW laws would raise the penalties for that amid rising political concern about antisemitism.
Compare the pair. While mandatory prison time for antisemitism sailed into law in Canberra, draft laws dealing with a bigger issue for battlers – ‘fat cat’ salaries – remain stuck in the Senate.
On Wednesday, LNP ‘mandatory sentencing’ amendments were tabled in the lower house. By Friday, they and the rest of Labor’s hate crimes package were law.