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Federal government moves to ban Nazi salute after spike in anti-Semitism, racism (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Key points:

  • The federal government has announced a plan to make it a criminal offence to perform the Nazi salute in Australia.
  • Meanwhile, hundreds of prominent Australians have signed a letter denouncing anti-Semitism and racism.
  • Jewish and Islamic groups say there has been a huge rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia.
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

At least now the police won't have an excuse not to charge them next time they start saluting in the middle of Melbourne.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’m sure next time they’ll forget to charge their handcuffs or something else to get out of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It's hard to cuff someone doing a nazi salute when your right hand is up in the air.