Published: 5 March 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
‘No place for those symbols’: Parliamentary committee calls for swastika ban (SMH)
Displaying the Nazi swastika would be a criminal offence in Victoria if the Andrews government implements a recommendation of a cross-party parliamentary inquiry into anti-vilification laws.
After a year-long investigation the final report from the legal and social issues committee was tabled on Wednesday morning. It urges the government to legislate tougher laws against hate speech and racist insignia.
Victorian inquiry recommends banning Nazi symbols and strengthening anti-vilification laws (ABC)
Australia plans to add far-right group Sonnenkrieg Division to list of terrorist organisations (Guardian)
The Australian government is planning to add a far right-wing group to the list of proscribed terrorist organisations – the first time it has done so - after repeated warnings from security agencies about the growing threat posed by such extremists.
The home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, signalled that the government was preparing to proscribe the UK-based right-wing extremist group Sonnenkrieg Division as a terrorist organisation.
Neo-Nazi Sonnenkrieg Division to become first right-wing terrorist organisation listed in Australia (ABC)
Sonnenkrieg Division, a UK-based neo-Nazi group, will be effectively banned in Australia once its listing as a terror group is confirmed.
The group has been outlawed in the UK since early last year, and members have been convicted of encouraging terrorism, disseminating terror material, and preparations for a terrorist act.
Two Sonnenkrieg Division members were convicted in 2019 for plotting to attack the British royal family.
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German far-right AfD first party put under surveillance since Nazi era (Reuters)
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Photo: A poster by Sonnenkrieg Division in the UK supporting Norwegian far-right terrorist Anders Brevik (Twitter)
