A string of people have been charged for allegedly displaying Nazi symbols and possessing extremist material in a crackdown on social cohesion.
The Australian Federal Police’s national security investigations team charged a British national with displaying a prohibited Nazi symbol in Queensland.
A 21-year-old man in Queensland has also been charged with possessing extremist material and a 25-year-old Sydney man has been charged and served a court attendance notice.
It followed a week of police action targeting social cohesion nationwide.
There has been a renewed focus on neo-Nazis following an anti-Semitic protest outside NSW parliament in November that resulted in the home affairs minister cancelling the visa of Matthew Gruter, who had come to Australia from South Africa.
The NSW government then pushed to crack down on protests outside places of worship following 60 black-clad demonstrators assembling outside the state’s parliament, where they yelled racist chants.
Premier Chris Minns pledged to expand a ban on Nazi symbols to include chants after the protesters yelled Hitler Youth slogans.
Three men, including neo-Nazi Joel Davis, were charged after allegedly threatening MPs in a Telegram channel in November.
Neo-Nazis are also pushing to establish a White Australia federal political party after signing up more than the 1500 people needed to register a party with the Australian Electoral Commission.
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