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Remove items from your saved list<\/a> to add more.<\/p>\n Save this article for later<\/p>\n Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.<\/p>\n Got it<\/p>\n AAA<\/p>\n A Brisbane community house with a \u201cfrom the river to the sea\u201d sign hanging outside has been raided by police.<\/p>\n Officers arrived at Dorothy Day House on Juliette Street in Greenslopes early on Friday morning.<\/p>\n The home is aligned to the Catholic Worker Movement and has nine residents. It takes in refugees and homeless people, and makes community meals.<\/p>\n Photos show it had a sign hanging outside saying \u201ccome get us Crisafulli\u201d below the phrase, which was banned earlier this month under new state government hate speech laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n Resident Franz Dowling told this masthead he painted the sign after reading about the legislation, and feeling it was an unjust attack on freedom of speech.<\/p>\n \u201cThis morning we were awoken at about 7:30am by \u2026 about eight big burly officers with guns and vests and they just came banging at our doors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was a lot of fear. They brought us all into the lounge room and detained us there and gave us big pat-down searches.<\/p>\n \u201cDefinitely I didn\u2019t expect such extreme measures.\u201d<\/p>\n Dowling added officers seized his digital devices and required him to share his passwords.<\/p>\n Related Article Alongside \u201cglobalise the intifada,\u201d the phrase was one of two banned under the new hate speech laws<\/a>. Supporters argue it is antisemitic, and effectively calls for the genocide or ethnic cleansing of Jewish people in the state of Israel.<\/p>\n Queensland police confirmed they had searched the Greenslopes property as part of an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n \u201cAs the matter remains subject to active investigation, it would be inappropriate to provide further comment at this time,\u201d a spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n Save<\/p>\n You have reached your maximum number of saved items.<\/p>\n![\"Dorothy](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2a67c99f04e645294252b9a1bcf7b6f7314efe14007f5101b9f90040fd84e5ac.jpeg\")
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The community home says it is based around values of \u201cactivism, environmental consciousness, prayer, hospitality, [and] living simply.\u201dFacebook <\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/c7887bf1fe54fe4bd4cef413eec1c626b4165dfc3a0e4c63ac309a25add30adb.jpeg\")
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