FREE SPEECH IN THE DOCK - Australia's shocking new laws

Since I retired from teaching last July, I walk down the two hundred metres to the valley on the Furber Steps, three to four times a week and catch the train back up. I'm sixty-six years old and have a mechanical valve in my heart. I also work out in the gym and swim. The Australian Parliament has adopted a potentially nation-altering hate crimes bill that allows an intelligence agency and the government to collaborate in virtual secrecy to list "hate groups" whose members and supporters could be then imprisoned, according to the text of the law and to senators who voted against it in a late-night session on Tuesday.  The law could allow peaceful organizations protesting against Israel to be listed without due process as hate groups in a hidden process between the Australian Intelligence Security Organisation (ASIO), which is the national domestic intelligence agency similar to the F.B.I., the attorney general and the home affairs minister.  Asked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) four times whether a group accusing Israel of genocide could be designated a "hate group," federal Attorney-General Michelle Rowland ultimately said she would rely on the advice of ASIO & the police in such a case. GUESTS: Sen. David Shoebridge and Nasser Mashni. INTERVIEWERS: Cathy Vogan and Joe Lauria