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Australia plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols in legislation coming next week

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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s government plans legislation to ban 
swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide due to an increase in far-
right activity, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said Thursday.

While most Australian states already ban such Nazi symbols, the federal 
law would go further by also banning the trade in such material, Dreyfus 
said.

“There’s been a rise in this kind of violent far right activity. We think 
it’s time for there to be a federal law which I’ll be bringing to the 
Parliament next week,” Dreyfus told Nine Network television.

We’ve got responsibility for import and export. We want to see an end to 
trading in this kind of memorabilia or any items which bear those Nazi 
symbols,” Dreyfus said. “There’s no place in Australia for spreading of 
hatred and violence.”

The Labor Party government controls the House of Representatives but not 
the Senate, and it’s unclear when a ban might pass or take effect. The law 
would include a penalty for people displaying Nazi symbols of up to a year 
in prison.

Displaying symbols for religious, educational or artistic purposes would 
be among a range of exclusions from the ban. It will not affect the use of 
the swastika for people observing Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

Dreyfus, who is Jewish, said the number of neo-Nazis was small, but the 
main domestic spy agency, the Australian Security Intelligence 
Organization, had raised concerns about their activity in the past three 
years.

“This is a very small number of people. I’m hoping it’s getting small and 
it will eventually disappear,” he told Australian Broadcasting Corp.

https://apnews.com/article/swastikas-australia-nazi-symbols-
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Australia plans to ban swastikas and other Nazi symbols in legislation coming next week Nanny Land <no_guns@nofreedom.com> - 2023-06-11 09:38 +0000
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