Signage in a shopfront depicting high-profile Australians, including politicians, in Nazi-like uniforms has been reported to police.
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The poster in the front window of a Wagga, NSW, street depicts Riverina MP Michael McCormack, Opposition leader Peter Dutton, Trumpet of Patriots chair Clive Palmer and businesswoman Gina Rinehart in what appears to be Nazi uniforms.
"It's beyond nastiness. It's vile, it's derogatory, it's offensive, it's defamatory, words just almost fail," Mr McCormack said.
Advision owner Michael Agzarian said they were not Nazi uniforms but instead costumes from the 1960s American sitcom Hogan's Heroes.
When contacted by The Daily Advertiser on Tuesday morning, Mr Agzarian did not want to provide further comment at that time.
The graphic design business is well-known in the community for displaying controversial imagery in its shopfront, which often relates to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Mr McCormack said he was upset and disappointed that Wagga had once again been subjected to derogatory posters in Advision.
"We cannot fix the Middle East from Fitzmaurice Street," he said.
"Advision has continuously displayed posters of a derogatory nature, offensive and vile.
"This is not Wagga. This is not how it should be. It has to stop. This is inciting hatred."
Since first being posted, Mr McCormack's image has been replaced by a pixelated version. However, the other three figures remain unchanged.
Mr McCormack said seeing his image used in this way was beyond offensive.
"For [Mr Agzarian] to put that poster up and dressing public figures as Nazis is beyond the pale," he said.
"It's not warranted."
In February 2025, NSW introduced new laws criminalising the public incitement of racial hatred and strengthened penalties for displaying Nazi symbols in certain places.
Mr McCormack said he had reported the poster to the NSW Police and it had been sent to its integrity unit, which will examine if it has gone beyond the threshold of what would be deemed to be breaching the law.
"To my way of thinking, it shouldn't have happened in the first place," he said.
"There are new laws in NSW to stop people promoting Nazism. That's what this is doing.
"I appreciate [Mr Agzarian] is passionate about Gaza. I want a resolution in the Middle East too, but ... what we've seen with his windows is not the way Wagga should be."
Mr McCormack said the community, including children on school buses who stop in front of it every day, should not be subjected to the imagery in Advision's window.
He was also outraged by the disrespect towards Australian veterans who fought in WWII and Jews killed in the Holocaust.
Now contesting his sixth election, Mr McCormack said he had never seen nastiness like this before.
"It's only day five; goodness knows what'll happen over the subsequent days and weeks of this election campaign," he said.
Mr McCormack believes he has said nothing wrong about the Middle East.
"I've said all along that a Palestinian baby is every bit as innocent as an Israeli baby, but that's not good enough," he said.
"I'm not quite sure what they expect.
"But putting me in a Nazi uniform is not the way we should behave, and there should be consequences for this action."
