The Australian legislative framework has a lot of gaps in relation to governing, protecting and preventing behaviour motivated by inter-group hatred. For example, there is no clear and consistent definition of hate crime across different Australian states. As a consequence, there is no comprehensive data about the incidence of hate crime in Australia. Another main gap is the piecemeal approach to protecting some groups that are the targets of hatred, but not others. In the next video, Prof Gail Mason analyses these gaps, and discusses them against international cases from the UK and the US.