Victoria Police are looking into a station wagon covered in Nazi and antisemitic stickers that was spotted in a Geelong shopping centre car park.
According to a report in the Geelong Advertiser on Saturday, the vehicle was seen at Newcomb Central on Friday morning.
A Jewish woman who photographed the car was left shaken by the display, which featured Nazi symbols, white supremacist references, and material targeting Jews and Israel.
Anti-Defamation Commission chair Dr Dvir Abramovich told the Geelong Advertiser the vehicle was “sickening, shameful and dangerous,” calling it “a rolling shrine to Hitler’s ideology.”
The stickers reportedly included the Third Reich eagle, an Iron Cross, the word “Freikorps,” references to the German military song “Erika,” and a death’s head skull linked to SS units.
Other images showed a cartoon child urinating on the flags of Israel and the United States, along with altered Australian flags. Abramovich noted that the display promoted conspiracy theories claiming Australia is controlled by Jews and communists.
He highlighted the driver’s reaction when the woman took photos, saying the man was not hiding and that this confidence reflected the current climate.
Abramovich called on Victoria Police to investigate whether the display breached state and federal laws banning Nazi symbols, stating, “These laws were not passed to gather dust.”
In response, a Victoria Police spokesperson confirmed that detectives from the Geelong Crime Investigation Unit are examining the images. “Geelong Crime Investigation Unit detectives are investigating after offensive stickers were located on a vehicle in Newcomb on Friday, July 17,” the spokesperson said.
“The incident has not been reported to police at this stage, but now images of the vehicle have been provided, detectives will investigate whether any offences have occurred. There is absolutely no place at all in our society for hate-based symbols and antisemitic language.”
Victoria introduced laws banning the public display of Nazi symbols in 2022, with expansions the following year. Offenders can face fines of more than $23,000, up to 12 months in jail, or both.
Geelong has recorded several other antisemitic and Nazi-related incidents in recent years. A swastika was painted in a car park on the Western Beach foreshore in January 2025, following earlier graffiti in Norlane declaring “Adolf was right”.
In February 2025, seven men were charged after allegedly performing Nazi salutes at the Croatian Club in Bell Park, with police using photographs and CCTV footage during their investigation.
Police have asked anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.