The Tasmanian government has also announced it will pursue laws to ban the Nazi salute after an anti-transgender rally in Melbourne caused outrage.
Ms Keen-Minshull visited Hobart on Tuesday, where hundreds of pro-transgender rights supporters drowned out her speaking event on the steps of the state parliament house.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Nova Melbourne "there is no place in Australia for Nazi salutes"At Ms Keen-Minshull's rally in Hobart, scuffles and pushing and shoving broke out, forcing police to separate the two groups.
"There are some other jurisdictions, some European countries who have successfully been able to do this," he told reporters. "The use of the Nazi salute is offensive, distressing and a breach of our community and moral standards," she said. "These are markers of some of the darkest days in world history, of ghettos, of deportations, and mass murder that touched my own family," he said.
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