NSW Considers Ban on Nazi Salutes Following White Supremacist Rally

Published on October 14, 2024

New South Wales (NSW) is considering whether to change the law to make the Nazi salute explicitly illegal after around 50 people attended a white supremacist rally, which featured a neo-Nazi banner, in the small Murray River town of Corowa on Saturday. It is a criminal offence to knowingly display a Nazi symbol in public without a reasonable excuse, but the state does not explicitly ban the salute. A group of balaclava-wearing men were gathered under a sign that read “white man fight back,” and a video posted online showed the group’s leader suggesting white people were being “pushed out” of their towns....