A Canberra bar is being investigated under the federal government's new hate laws over a series of posters, which the owner says are satirical.
Dissent Cafe and Bar have posters depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk in Nazi-like uniforms on their doors with signs reading "sanction Israel" and "stop genocide".
Last night, just as a live band was about to play, police stormed the venue and asked for the posters to be removed.
Independent Kurrajong MP Thomas Emerson has also written to the police minister to seek an explanation, saying territory and federal law make clear that publicly displaying a swastika is not an offence if it's for artistic purposes.
"This seems pretty Orwellian to me," he said.
"Art intends to provoke and challenge us.
"In attempting to foster social harmony by preventing offence, we can't afford to create more division. Government suppression of artistic expression and dissenting voices is incredibly divisive."
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