The NSW government will seek to mirror laws in Germany that ban phrases such as “blood and honour” – a slogan associated with the Hitler Youth – as it considers strengthening hate speech laws amid the fallout from a police-authorised neo-Nazi rally outside parliament.

As political leaders and the state’s new police commissioner scramble to explain why Saturday’s rally wasn’t blocked, and female MPs who condemned the gathering were subjected to threats of rape and death, Premier Chris Minns has flagged “bigger, bolder” lines separating hate speech from free speech.

The scandal worsened late on Monday when it was reported Deputy Commissioner Peter Thurtell was made aware of the planned protest but did not escalate the matter.

Blood and honour, or blut und ehre, is a banned phrase in Germa

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