Members of a far-right group, who have been wearing black with masks protecting their face, staged an anti-immigration rally in Melbourne's CBD beginning on Saturday morning.
Nonetheless, they have been outnumbered by counter-protesters, a few of whom hurled objects on the group after they carried out Nazi salutes, resulting in swift police intervention.
Whereas Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews moved to outlaw performing Nazi salutes following a protest in March, the change has not but been legislated.
Lots of the counter-protesters left to affix a unique rally in help of Palestine, the neo-Nazis have been marched away from parliament by officers earlier than dispersing.
The far-right protests have been roundly condemned by each nationwide and state political figures, with federal Vitality Minister Chris Bowen calling the rally "unspeakably un-Australian".
"It is unacceptable. It isn't on," he mentioned.
"That is pure and easy racism and neo-Nazism is pure and easy evil.
"It has no place in our nation, it must be condemned and it's condemned by this authorities."
He continued to say the neo-Nazis have been "political lunatics who haven't any place in fashionable Australia".
Victorian Opposition Chief John Pesutto, in a joint assertion with deputy Liberal chief David Southwick, was equally condemnatory.
"The Victorian Liberals and Nationals condemn neo-Nazi thugs and their poisonous bigotry and hate," the assertion mentioned.
"Australia has a proud historical past of an orderly immigration program the place individuals from all backgrounds come collectively in shared liberal-democratic values.
"This type of behaviour is totally unacceptable and towards the values of an inclusive, tolerant and multicultural group."
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