The NSW Labor government has introduced new laws banning public displays of Nazi ideology in response to a peaceful police-approved National Socialist Network protest against the influence of the Jewish lobby in Australian politics.
Premier Chris Minns said on Wednesday the proposed amendments to the Crimes Act would give police more powers to make arrests, and while the move was welcomed by Jewish community leaders, it was mocked by the group they are aimed at and criticised by Independent MP Mark Latham in parliament.
Attorney-General Michael Daley said the proposed amendments would ban “conduct which indicates support for Nazi ideology by invoking imagery or characteristics associated with Nazism without reasonable excuse and in public” and would include “Nazi chants or slogans”.
If passed next year, the new offences will be punishable by a year’s imprisonment or a maximum fine of $11,000, or two years’ imprisonment or a $22,000 fine if committed near a synagogue, Jewish school, or the Sydney Jewish Museum.
The amendments will also allow police to take down Nazi symbols and order people to reveal their identity if needed for an investigation into a Nazi conduct, and will apply regardless of whether a protest has been approved by police.
“We are giving police and the courts additional powers to hold Nazi extremists to account for their abhorrent views,” Mr Daley said.
“These tough new laws are complemented by the suite of legislation the Government has already put in place to protect against racial vilification and hatred.”
In introducing the laws Mr Minns stressed that Australians do not have freedom of speech, echoing previous comments where he has stated that free speech and multiculturalism are incompatible, and said “we don’t apologise” for NSW being “at the forefront of changes to the laws in relation to hate speech in Australia”.
NSW Jewish Board of Deputies president David Ossip said his community “wholeheartedly welcomed” the proposed changes.
“The Nazi ideology and the growth of White supremacist groups do not merely endanger communal safety and cohesion but are fundamentally subversive to the values and structures of our democracy,” he said.
“These amendments, should they pass into law, are a welcome step in ensuring that the despicable scenes witnessed outside NSW Parliament House are never able to be repeated.”
But White Australia spokesman Joel Davis, who made a speech at the NSN’s “abolish the Jewish lobby” rally on November 8, responded to the proposal on his Telegram channel, where he wrote: “No way this is constitutional. We will strike it down in the courts, and easily.”
Earlier he wrote: “They literally don’t know what to do other than make it illegal to say ‘Blood and Honour’ and ‘Hail Victory’. Unconstitutional, but while we fight it in the courts we can simply use other slogans.”
The political organisation’s NSW leader Jack Eltis, who also spoke at the rally, wrote: “Anti Nazi laws are the easiest strikeout ever. Political communication as per the Australian Constitution. See: Attempted ban of the communist party 1950/1951.
“Minns can’t just legislate political ideologies out of existence because he and his lobbyists don’t like them, and you also can’t create legislation to make political ideologies and political organisations unable to express their political ideology. Like banning all their insignia, language, or ability to meet etc. Easy, done, next!”
The proposed changes were also criticised in the NSW upper house by Mr Latham, who read a passage from Hitler’s book Mein Kampf to highlight the difficulty of trying to ban an ideology.
Mark Latham reading out a section of Mein Kampf to remind Parliament what nuance means.
History is not black and white, and that is particularly true when it comes to WWII and the ideologies that flourished during that time.
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“Who could have spoken those words? Could it be a Labor MP or a trade union official? Could it be the official policy of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in a statement endorsing the need for superannuation, one of the great reforms of the Keating Government?” Mr Latham asked.
“It is an interesting passage, and it highlights how difficult it is to actually define an ideology, given that an ideology is incredibly broad. Even the most evil has seemingly innocuous statements that can be equated with a different political party or a movement of a different kind in a different era.
“It is a statement that highlights the challenge of the Attorney General in trying to define and outlaw Nazi ideology, with fines and police arrests and jailing of people who might read out things in public spaces—not here in the Parliament—that are associated with the Third Reich and Adolf Hitler.
“The passage I have read out is from page 126 of Mein Kampf, which is unthinkable, and it is a terrible book. I actually got it from the parliamentary library. It has not been burnt down there, ironically enough.”
No arrests have been made over the NSN rally, but South African national Matthew Gruter, who participated in the rally but did not speak, had his visa cancelled after a doxxing campaign by the corporate media and far-left extremists, and is now in immigration detention.
Header image: Left, Chris Minns meets with the Jewish community (Facebook). Right, the NSN protest (supplied).
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