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The poster was designed in the same style as famous street artist Peter Drew’s “Aussie” series and has been spotted in over 40 places in the city.
Lord Mayor Nick Reece said Drew’s iconic posters are a celebration of Australia’s national identity and multiculturalism and decried the copycat posters as “absolutely abhorrent”.
“His posters are a good example of the role contemporary street art can play in politics as a means of social activism,” Reece said in a statement.
“For Drew’s work to be hijacked and appropriated into images of hatred and division is absolutely abhorrent.
“To use the image of the Bondi shooter is just sick. Families are still grieving, the community is still grieving.
“There is no possible universe in which this can be seen as an artistic response to the original series.”
Reece said his team has worked around the clock to remove the posters.
Racist and hateful material will be removed in Melbourne within one hour of being reported under a new city policy, the mayor added.
”Our approach is ‘whatever it takes’: we are not going to tolerate hateful, racist material on the streets of our city, for even one hour,” Reece said.
“The Bondi terrorists will fade into history and their names will be forgotten,” Aghion said.
“The people who will be remembered are the victims, the survivors, and the heroes who rushed in to help. They represent the true Aussie spirit.”
Fifteen innocent people were killed and dozens more were injured when two gunmen opened fire from a footbridge overlooking the park in Bondi on December 14.
Akram has been charged with 59 offences.
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