White supremacist flyers don't break laws in the capital but spark police investigations interstate

The flyers triggered at least two police probes on New Year's Eve, days after they began appearing in letterboxes in Wollongong and Newcastle.

A NSW Police spokeswoman confirmed officers from Wollongong and Newcastle City police districts were investigating reports of "offensive flyers", distributed two weeks after the anti-Semitic terrorist attack at Sydney's Bondi Beach on December 14.

In Canberra, residents have been complaining about the "disgusting" and "deeply offensive" flyers, saying they spread racist hatred, since March this year.

However, days after the mass shooting at Bondi, ACT police reiterated the flyers were "objectionable in a modern and inclusive society" but the content or symbols in the flyer were not a crime.

"ACT Policing will always assess this type of material and will not hesitate to investigate when criminality is identified," an ACT Policing spokeswoman said.

On Wednesday afternoon, the spokeswoman said ACT Policing's position had not changed.

The flyers, which carry the insignia of a known neo-Nazi group, were circulated in north Wollongong, Albion Park, and Cooks Hill, the Newcastle Herald and Illawarra Mercury reported on Wednesday.

Wollongong man Jeremy Lasek, a former head of communications for the Australian Federal Police, reportedly said the flyers were "racist filth".

NSW Premier Chris Minns, speaking in Sydney on Wednesday, said he was aware of the flyers.

"They are an incitement to racial hatred," he said.

"I mean they're generally being distributed anonymously but if we catch who is responsible for it, I promise you the police will throw the book at them."

It comes after officers from Australian Federal Police's national security investigations team and ACT Policing arrested a Canberra man, accused of doing Nazi salutes, who allegedly had the same flyer and other white supremacist material in his possession.

Zack Hook, 18, faced the ACT Magistrates Court last week where he was charged with two counts of giving the Nazi salute, two counts of damaging Commonwealth property, and two counts of offensive or disorderly behaviour on Commonwealth premises.

He was granted bail on conditions including not to associate with the National Socialist Network.

The court heard Hook worked at the National Arboretum, however, a spokeswoman has since said the man was employed by a contractor and was no longer doing shifts at the Arboretum.

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