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<\/p>\nPolice in Newcastle are investigating a letterbox drop of flyers from a group advocating what they called a “white Australia”.<\/p>\n
Residents in the inner city suburb of Cooks Hill found the flyers in their letterboxes over the past two days, and police were called.<\/p>\n
The flyers refer to “rebirthing a nation” and mention “the organising of white Australians”.<\/p>\n
Police have told the ABC the flyers have been deemed “offensive”.<\/p>\n
‘Gutless’<\/p>\n
One Cooks Hill resident who did not want to be identified told the ABC the flyers were sickening.<\/p>\n
“My household felt sick when we received it,” she said.<\/p>\n
The woman said she was taking steps to ensure her household was safe.<\/p>\n
“I’m online now looking at CCTV cameras,” she said.<\/p>\n
“It makes me feel like I need to be better prepared for next time.”<\/p>\n
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Police have told the ABC the flyers are “offensive”. (ABC Newcastle: Ben Clifford)<\/p>\n
Another Cooks Hill resident reported seeing a man distributing a bag full of flyers in the early evening.<\/p>\n
“I heard somebody placing something in my letterbox around 6:00 last night and about a minute later I went out to see what it was and was alarmed,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I was just horrified \u2026 I think it’s gutless to be [walking around] in the dark, spreading this vile hatred.<\/p>\n
“We don’t want this sort of stuff in our backyard.”Premier condemns flyer<\/p>\n
NSW Premier Chris Minns denounced the flyers and those behind the letterbox drop.<\/p>\n
“I am aware of them and they are an incitement to racial hatred,” Mr Minns said.<\/p>\n
“They are generally being distributed anonymously.<\/p>\n
“If we catch who is responsible for it I can promise you, police will throw the book at them.”<\/p>\n
In February 2025, the NSW government introduced legislation to parliament establishing a new criminal offence for intentionally inciting racial hatred.<\/p>\n
The legislation passed, making it a crime to intentionally and publicly incite hatred towards another person, or group of people, on the grounds of race.<\/p>\n
The New South Wales government said the offence contains several elements, including that it must be a public act; that public act must incite hatred; the incitement to hatred must be intentional; and intentional incitement to hatred must be on the basis of race.<\/p>\n
The offence has a maximum penalty of two years\u2019 imprisonment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Local MP ‘appalled’<\/p>\n
State Newcastle MP Tim Crakanthorp said the flyers were disturbing.<\/p>\n
“I am appalled someone is doing that in our community here in Newcastle. Racism has no place in our community,” he said.<\/p>\n
“We’ve just had a major [terrorism] incident in New South Wales and it’s really disappointing.”<\/p>\n
Police said anyone with information is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 00.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Newcastle are investigating a letterbox drop of flyers from a group advocating what they called a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381751,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9903,64,63,193613,205337,29180,45233,44,1158,205338],"class_list":["post-381750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-antisemitism","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bondi-terrorist-attack","tag-cooks-hill","tag-hate-speech","tag-nazi","tag-news","tag-police","tag-white-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381750","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=381750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}