Labor’s immigration minister has cancelled the visa of a UK national who allegedly made Nazi X posts and had swords with “swastika symbology”, even though his charges have not been heard in court.
The 43-year-old man arrested over the swords and alleged posts that “espoused pro-Nazi ideology” by an Australian Federal Police National Security Investigations team as part of a “national blitz” on Nazi symbols carried out earlier this month while the Bondi Islamic terrorists were preparing their attack.
The Caboolture resident was charged with three counts of displaying Nazi symbols and one count of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence, and was due to face court in January, but Immigration Minister Tony Burke revealed on Wednesday the man had been moved to immigration detention in Brisbane, and will now face deportation.
“There’s another [visa] that’s been cancelled against one of the [alleged] Nazis, who’s just been [allegedly] dedicating himself in different ways to anti-Jewish hatred,” Mr Burke said in an interview with 9News.
“If someone comes on a visa, they are a guest in our country, and I have no time whatsoever for people who come here to hate. If their reason for coming here is to hate, then they can leave.
The TV presenter then remarked: “The government has spent a lot of time talking about neo-Nazis during the last week or so but we’re really focused on the re-emergence, it seems, of ISIS at the moment in Australia.”
Mr Burke also announced the launch of its new National Hate Crimes Database, and told The Sydney Morning Herald new “hate speech” laws were being drafted in consultation with the Jewish community.
He said earlier this week that the legislation would include laws tailor-made to list as “hate organisations” groups like the National Socialist Network (NSN) and Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir which do not meet the threshold for terrorism.
The deportation comes after Mr Burke personally cancelled the visa of National Socialist Network activist Matthew Gruter for talking part in a peaceful police-approved protest against the influence of the Jewish lobby on Australian politics, and deported him to South Africa.
Both Mr Burke, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and NSW Premier Chris Minns have been criticised for repeatedly deflecting to “right-wing extremism” in the wake of the Bondi attack while refusing to talk about radical Islam.
Header image: Left, Tony Burke and AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett (AFP). Right, the Queensland man being arrested (AFP).
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