People who chant Nazi slogans or invoke Nazi “characteristics” would face up to two years in prison and a $22,000 fine under new laws to be introduced to state parliament today.

The proposed Crimes Act amendments make it an offence to publicly display support for Nazi ideology. Chants like “blood and honour”, which was shouted by a group of 60 neo-Nazi protesters outside the parliament earlier this month and has links to Hitler Youth, would be illegal.

The charge would come with a maximum penalty of a year in prison or an $11,000 fine, and doubled to two years’ imprisonment or a $22,000 if the Nazi display is outside a synagogue, a Jewish school or the Sydney Jewish Museum.

Police would also be given new powers to order a suspected Nazi symbol be taken down, and introduce fines of $2200

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