Police and courts will be given greater powers to combat public displays of Nazi ideology in NSW following a rally outside state parliament earlier this month.

The rally on November 8 featured two rows of men clad in black, displaying a banner calling to "Abolish the Jewish lobby".

The group of about 60 also chanted a slogan associated with the Hitler Youth, "blood and honour".

The government on Wednesday said it would amend the Crimes Act 1900 to ban conduct which indicated support for Nazi ideology without reasonable excuse and in public.

This includes banning the use of Nazi chants or slogans.

Displaying Nazi symbols is already banned in the state.

Under the reforms being introduced into NSW parliament on Wednesday, someone who engages in this conduct will face up to a year's impr

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