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Victorian Inquiry Recommends Ban on Nazi Symbols March 5, 2021 Updated: March 9, 2021
Displaying symbols of Nazi ideology could be banned in the Australian state of Victoria following a parliamentary inquiry into the state’s anti-vilification laws.
The potential ban would include the Nazi swastika, but it was not clear from the report whether this would encompass other uses of the swastika by Eastern faith groups which for thousands of years have recognised the symbol as one of divinity and spirituality, such as those in the Buddhist traditions.
The state’s inquiry into its anti-vilification protections (pdf), put forward on March 3, also called for the laws to be extended to cover race and religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, HIV status, and disability.
Membership in the UK-based Sonnenkrieg Division, or helping it financially, will be outlawed; domestic spy agency has sounded alarm over similar outfits
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Since an Australian gunman killed 51 worshippers at mosques in New Zealand s Christchurch in 2019, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation has said the far-right threat had increased and become an enduring threat .
Sonnenkrieg Division, a UK-based neo-Nazi group, will be effectively banned in Australia once its listing as a terror group is confirmed.
After that, the outfit will become the first far-right organisation to be listed as a terror group in Australia.
The Department of Home Affairs signalled that the Sonnenkrieg Division would join the current list of 27 proscribed organisations, which have so far been exclusively jihadist or separatist groups linked to the Middle East and Central Asia.