Police have seized art posters from a Canberra music venue and bar that depict world leaders and others, including Donald Trump and Elon Musk, wearing Nazi uniforms, and are investigating whether new federal hate symbol laws were broken.
The ACT independent MLA Thomas Emerson said he’d written to the ACT police minister on Thursday morning to ask why the legislation’s exemptions for artistic purposes hadn’t been applied in this instance.
“This seems pretty Orwellian to me,” Emerson said.
“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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