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Australia has enacted ... Italy with Nazi Symbols Ban The ban will specifically focus on prominent symbols associated with Adolf Hitler’s National Socialist regime, including modified modern ...

Hate symbols and terror offences will be punishable with mandatory jail terms ranging from one to six years in Australia, ...

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Australia passed tough anti-hate crime laws on Thursday, including mandatory minimum sentences for terror offences and displaying hate symbols, in a bid to tackle a recent surge in antisemitism.

Convinced there were “moderates” in the Nazi party whose position would be strengthened by concessions, the appeasers and sentimentalists were, Haffner said, “dooming humanity to disaster”.

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Offences including displaying hate symbols and terror crimes will now carry mandatory minimum jail sentences under new laws passed in federal parliament. First ...