Iconography of hate was graffitied onto the Gawler Institute building.
Put simply, that act is, was and will forever be disgusting.
It should not and will not be tolerated.
Symbols of division and racism have no place in our community.
What those symbols represent is destructive and abhorrent.
The symbols graffitied represent an attack on freedom, equality and inclusion.
The symbols graffitied sow the seeds of division and fear.
Brazen acts such as this must and need to be called out.
Those symbols are ignorant of the past and detrimental to our future.
Hate has no place in Gawler.
Those symbols do not represent who we are as a community.
Those symbols do not represent what we stand for as a community.
No one should ever need to apologise for who they are or where they came from.
I know our community at its best – welcoming, inclusive, tolerant and united.
And together we must unite, call out this behaviour and stamp out hate.
Hate can’t win.
Hate won’t win.
James Agness, Labor candidate for Light
