Politics live: hate group listing would give home affairs ‘way too much power’, Canavan says; IMF forecasts Australia to experience ‘drawn-out’ inflation

Follow updates liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWhile the Coalition looks at making an agreement with Labor, there’s still some division within the opposition over elements of the bill.Nationals senator, Matt Canavan, has told the ABC’s Radio National Breakfast this morning he’s not a fan of how broad the hate group listing is, which he says would give the home affairs “way too much power” to ban groups.Giving a power to a government to ban an entire group is an extremely serious change to our laws. I would have preferred to have much, much more time to look at this for it to go through a proper inquiry process.Do we jail people for expressing just hate? Because I, I mean, what is hate? It’s very, very important, right… These laws we’re putting in place weaponise words like hate to the extent that people can be put away for years in jail and and my perspective here has always been that there is a line here that where someone is inciting a violent act, phys...