Returning to yesterday\u2019s anti-mass immigration rally in the Perth CBD, WA Premier Roger Cook has just been asked whether a small group of Neo Nazis who attended the march would be charged for shouting \u2018Heil Australia\u2019. <\/p>\n
The rally was attended by around 10,000 people who were opposing the increase in overseas migration rates since the pandemic, claiming \u2018it\u2019s the pace, not the race\u2019 that is placing unsustainable pressure on the country\u2019s housing and infrastructure. <\/p>\n
Rallies were held across the country. Perth\u2019s march was deemed mostly peaceful by police, with 11 move on notices issued, and three people arrested. <\/p>\n
Here\u2019s what Cook had to say about the Neo Nazis who marched at the event, and whether they should be charged under new anti-semitism laws for shouting \u2018Heil Australia\u2019. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll leave that up to the police, that\u2019s an operational issue. Obviously, it\u2019s incredibility offensive and I think an absolute opposite to the values that all Australians embrace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want Australia to be an inclusive society, a safe society, these people are directly trying to undermine the Australian way of life, and everyone should reject them, their values and their actions.<\/p>\n
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\u201cObviously [the rally] was under very close scrutiny by the police, if anyone transgresses laws that police believe should be prosecuted, they\u2019ll obviously make arrests and prosecute.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s be very clear, not everyone at that rally yesterday was a racist, but that rally did provide comfort to racists and extremists in Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would have looked at that rally and thought, \u2018there is a good breeding ground for our evil and nasty campaign to drive division and hatred in the West Australian community\u2019.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Returning to yesterday\u2019s anti-mass immigration rally in the Perth CBD, WA Premier Roger Cook has just been asked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-110682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}