AUDIO: Barry Soper joins Larry Williams to discuss the passage of the Bill. 

Controversial anti-cyber bullying legislation hass been passed into law.

MPs have passed the Government's Harmful Digital Communications Bill.

It sets up a civil enforcement regime to handle hateful online abuse.

The law also creates a new criminal offence for what are deemed as seriously harmful online behaviours, such as incitement of suicide

Parliament voted 116 to five in favour of the new law.

ACT leader David Seymour and four Green MPs voted against it