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   From: no_guns@nofreedom.com   
      
   CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s government plans legislation to ban   
   swastikas and other Nazi symbols nationwide due to an increase in far-   
   right activity, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said Thursday.   
      
   While most Australian states already ban such Nazi symbols, the federal   
   law would go further by also banning the trade in such material, Dreyfus   
   said.   
      
   “There’s been a rise in this kind of violent far right activity. We think   
   it’s time for there to be a federal law which I’ll be bringing to the   
   Parliament next week,” Dreyfus told Nine Network television.   
      
   We’ve got responsibility for import and export. We want to see an end to   
   trading in this kind of memorabilia or any items which bear those Nazi   
   symbols,” Dreyfus said. “There’s no place in Australia for spreading of   
   hatred and violence.”   
      
   The Labor Party government controls the House of Representatives but not   
   the Senate, and it’s unclear when a ban might pass or take effect. The law   
   would include a penalty for people displaying Nazi symbols of up to a year   
   in prison.   
      
   Displaying symbols for religious, educational or artistic purposes would   
   be among a range of exclusions from the ban. It will not affect the use of   
   the swastika for people observing Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.   
      
   Dreyfus, who is Jewish, said the number of neo-Nazis was small, but the   
   main domestic spy agency, the Australian Security Intelligence   
   Organization, had raised concerns about their activity in the past three   
   years.   
      
   “This is a very small number of people. I’m hoping it’s getting small and   
   it will eventually disappear,” he told Australian Broadcasting Corp.   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/swastikas-australia-nazi-symbols-   
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