Agreed. A known leader of a neo-Nazi organisation registered a protest. The group have a history of registering events under false pretenses but there's no excuse for this one. It was obvious.

Nazi speech is illegal.

It should be.

But fascists know their worldview is revolting to the public and parts of it are illegal to plainly say. That's why they use pseudo-runes and sonnenrads instead of swastikas, talk about removing instead of exterminating, and protest around secondary positions like 'mass immigration' to spread racial supremacy rhetoric. They've been playing this game for a hundred years. Nazi speech is legal if you're careful about it.

The problem is what they're doing, not how they're doing it, and our law struggles to handle that.

No argument here. Even if they didn’t; the moment they realise it was a rally of dudes clad in all black with their faces covered spouting bs; they should have issued move on orders. Yep, it violates the inciting racial hatred act. It’s worth pointing out that maybe it “slipped passed them” but my doubting that aside, incompetence is not a defence; as any cop will tell you.

The commissioner said he would review that decision and added he did not know the protest was taking place due to an internal "communication error", and that he had failed to brief the government.

ABC.