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Victorian parliamentary committee set to announce decision on banning Nazi symbols

Tomorrow morning, a Victorian parliamentary committee will announce its decision on whether the swastika and other Nazi symbols should be banned from public display.
Key points:
- The inquiry into the adequacy of Victoria’s racial vilification laws was prompted by a planned neo-Nazi music festival in Melbourne in 2019
- Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said the state had a “deficiency in the law”
- Some say banning symbols will just encourage hate groups to adopt new ones
Dvir Abramovich, who chairs the non-government Anti-Defamation Commission, hopes the committee members will “take the high moral ground and say enough is enough”.
“I don’t think the day is far away when we will see neo-Nazis marching in the streets of Melbourne’s CBD with neo-Nazi…
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