This proposal has ten components.

Component 1: Provide $10 million per year (unindexed) in ongoing grant funding to support
community‐led programs to counter violent extremism.

• Departmental costs would be met from within this capped amount.

Component 2: Extend the current National Anti‐Racism Strategy delivered by the
Australian Human Rights Commission by providing $12 million per year to community
organisations for programs to create awareness of racism and empower communities to
prevent it.

• This funding would be ongoing and would be indexed by the consumer price index.

Component 3: Establish an independent Commonwealth Government Multicultural Commission
with ongoing funding of $3.5 million per year, indexed by the consumer price index.

Component 4: Require all non‐corporate Commonwealth entities to report annually to the newly
established Commonwealth Government Multicultural Commission in Component 3.

• Entities would report on action taken to promote multiculturalism, the use of interpreting and translating services, and the extent to which people from diverse backgrounds were represented on boards and committees.
• All costs for this reporting, including departmental expenses incurred by the reporting entities, would be met from within the capped funding for the Commission.

Component 5: Provide $98.2 million over five years to fund multidisciplinary academic research
into domestic extremism. Departmental costs would be met from within this capped amount. The
funding would include:

• $1.4 million over the period 2019‐20 to 2023‐24 for the Online Hate Prevention Institute to continually update, maintain and expand its Fight Against Hate online system
• $6.0 million over the period 2019‐20 to 2022‐23 for the Australian Intervention Support Hub.

Component 6: Establish a national database on hate crimes with once‐off total funding of
$10 million.

• The Commonwealth Government would fund $5 million and the remainder would be provided by the states and territories.

Component 7: Ban political donations by firearms and ammunition retailers, manufacturers,
recreational associations and peak bodies, and prohibit the possession and use of semi‐automatic
guns in the community.

Component 8: Initiate a Senate Inquiry through an existing Senate Committee to review the
Commonwealth Government’s response to breaches of the National Firearms Agreement.

Component 9: Create a Commonwealth Parliamentary Code of Conduct to prevent hate speech
by politicians, and add hate speech to the Criminal Code Act 1995.

Component 10: Introduce a Charter of Rights in Australia.

The proposal would have effect from 1 July 2019.