Bill to be introduced next week follows controversy over neo-Nazi rallies in March and Peter Dutton’s proposed ban
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The federal government will ban Nazi symbols with a punishment of up to a year in prison but it will not ban the Nazi salute, the attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has revealed.
The reform follows a storm of controversy in March over what Dreyfus called a failure by the Coalition to condemn people who used a Nazi salute at an anti-trans rights rally on the steps of the Victorian parliament in Melbourne. In response the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, proposed to ban all forms of Nazi glorification, including salutes and symbols.
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