‘We’ll look at some models and we’ll get it done as quickly as we can,’ attorney general says
The Andrews government will move to ban the Nazi salute within months after the gesture was usedBut Victoria’s attorney general, Jaclyn Symes, says the proposed law will take “some work” to get right.Anti-transgender activists clashed with pro-transgender rights activists outside Victoria’s parliament on Saturday after an event held by the controversial UK gender activist Kellie-Jay Keen.
A group of about 30 men from the Nationalist Socialist Movement marched along Spring Street, repeatedly performing the Nazi salute.“The behaviour we saw on the weekend was disgusting, cowardly – a sense of sadness, outrage and disbelief all at once,” she told ABC Radio. “It’s clear this symbol is being used to incite hatred against a variety of people, a variety of minority groups … it’s being used as a recruitment tool.
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