British man’s Australian visa cancelled after being charged with displaying Nazi symbols

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Source: theguardian.com
British man’s Australian visa cancelled after being charged with displaying Nazi symbols

Home affairs minister, Tony Burke, said the government had ‘no time for hatred when it came to cancelling visas’

The federal government has cancelled the visa of a British man charged with displaying prohibited Nazi symbols, after police seized swords bearing “swastika symbology” from his Queensland home last month.

Federal police announced earlier this month that a 43-year-old United Kingdom citizen living in Queensland had been charged with three counts of allegedly displaying prohibited Nazi symbols, and one count of using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence.

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