Another thing on the agenda, when our pollies return to Canberra next week, is voting on a proposed bill to ban the display of certain controversial symbols. We can’t name it here lest we end up in your junk folder, but one of them kinda sounds like ‘potsticker’… If the bill is passed into law, it would see people face up to a year’s jail time if they publicly display the symbol or anything that closely resembles it. The display and trade of related memorabilia will also be criminalised, but religious uses of the symbol have been excluded from the ban. That’s because it’s a sacred symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism. As for the offensive salute, the states and territories will be responsible for cracking down on that. “There is no place in Australia for symbols that glorify the horrors of the Holocaust,” Attorney-General Dreyfus said yesterday.