Labor's support for the government's religious discrimination bill came under scrutiny on a recent episode of the ABC's Q+A, when a questioner asked Shadow Minister for Education and Women, Tanya Plibersek, how she and her party could support the legislation.

In response, Ms Plibersek noted that "in lots of parts of Australia, people of faith don't have any protection at all".

"Right now in Sydney, if you're a Muslim woman sitting on a train and someone yells at you for wearing a hijab, you've got no protection under the law from that," she said.

There are no religious vilification laws at either a state or federal level which would protect someone in NSW from vilification as described by Ms Plibersek, but experts told Fact Check other legislation could come into play.

For example, laws governing offensive language in public and behaviour on public transport could offer the woman some protection against the harassment described.

Verdict: Fact Check found that claim to be overreach.