Commentary
Victoria is the first Australian State to introduce legislation in its Parliament to ban the public display of the Nazi Swastika. The Summary Offences Amendment (Nazi Symbol Prohibition) Bill has bipartisan support and, hence, will sail through the Parliament unopposed.
Following a recommendation by a parliamentary inquiry, New South Wales is also planning to adopt similar legislation. There are, however, Hindu and Buddhist religious versions of the emblem, the use of which will remain legal.
There is no doubt that the Nazi regime that ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945 was evil. Based on a racist ideology, it waged an aggressive war, which resulted in the persecution and murder of around six million Jews, known as the “Holocaust.”…