Senator Pauline Hanson has made a call on how Australia should address “symbols of hate, extremism, barbarity”.
Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson is calling for Nazi and Islamic State “symbols of hate, extremism, barbarity” to be officially banned in Australia – including in video games.
She is urging Labor and the Coalition to work together to create laws to ban swastikas, as well as other Nazi and IS symbols, saying if bikie colours could be outlawed, so could those.
Her calls are in response to a Melbourne man walking through markets on the weekend wearing a swastika on his arm, but police were unable to arrest him.
There was a similar incident where a home in Victoria was flying a flag with Nazi symbols, with authorities only able to ask the homeowners to take it down.
Senator Hanson said the ban should be extended to video games sold in Australia.
It could cause trouble for popular franchises like Wolfenstein, where players shoot Nazis and its most recent edition which was set in an alternate history where Germany won World War II.
Senator Hanson, who has spoken in favour of free speech, said she believed an overwhelming majority of Australians would support the ban.
Read the article by Matthew Killoran in The Courier Mail.