Police seize art posters depicting Trump, Putin and Netanyahu in Nazi uniforms from Canberra bar

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/feb/19/police-seize-art-posters-depicting-trump-putin-and-netanyahu-in-nazi-uniforms-from-canberra-bar-ntwnfb

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.

David Howe, the owner of Dissent Cafe and Bar in Canberra’s CBD, said his venue was shut down for about two hours on Wednesday night as police investigated a complaint about hate imagery relating to five posters in the window.

“I think it’s ludicrous to be perfectly honest,” he told Guardian Australia, describing the works as an “anti-fascist statement” and noting the shut down had caused the cancellation of an interstate band’s performance.

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eureka@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
ART is ART

disagreeing with what is considered art is fascist

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- eureka@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  disagreeing with what is considered art is fascist
  
  Fascism certainly is a nebulous concept, but this is just diluting it. Censorship is not fascism, even if fascists support censorship.
  
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- spiffmeister@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  And what could be more fascist than police raiding your place to remove it?
  
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naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Pretty derpy, we’ll see how this plays out in court.

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maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Malicious compliance?

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Eyekaytee@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Isn’t this almost exactly the same as:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/…/105121020

The only problem I have with this is that the person doing it seems really tough putting up artwork of people as Nazi’s (even though all it does it make the nazi’s look weaker than the insane human life destroying machines they were) is that if someone was to put up an anti-trans poster or greens members etc as Nazi’s then suddenly they’re upset

it feels very one way street with being offensive

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- galoisghost@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If Netanyahu wasn’t one of the figures in one of these posters this raid never would have happened. The problem here is that the laws are being (deliberately) interpreted as pro-Zionist
  
  If some establishment had a picture of Sarah Hanson-Young dressed as a Nazi literally no-one would care except the right wing mouth breathers who would find that kind of thing amusing.
  
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- eureka@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  It’s pretty silly to pretend it’s strange that people would react differently.
  
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