A Nazi flag was flown near a Brisbane synagogue last year. 

The Queensland government has announced its intention to introduce legislation to ban the display of the Nazi swastika and ISIS symbol, in a bid to crack down on hate crimes.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will introduce a bill on Thursday that criminalizes the intentional display of symbols to promote hatred or cause fear, such as the swastika, which is also known as the Hakenkreuz.

It's understood there will be exceptions for Hindus, Buddhists and Jains for whom swastikas are religious symbols.

"Nazism is evil," the premier said.

"Evil triumphs when good people do nothing. These crimes are not harmless and nor is the ideology behind it."

Ms. Palaszczuk says her decision comes after a Nazi flag was displayed near the Brisbane Synagogue and a train carriage was vandalized with Nazi slogans and symbols last year.

"That will make it a criminal offense to display symbols promoting hatred and causing fear," she said in a statement to AAP.

"These crimes are not harmless. Nor are their ideologies.

"They are to be called out, confronted and condemned."

Queensland's plan for a ban on hate symbols comes after the Victorian government introduced a bill to ban them. The NSW government is also set to follow suit.

The Palaszczuk government has accepted all 17 recommendations of a parliamentary report that advised hate crime laws should be strengthened to curb “the devastating effects of vilification”, and will introduce a bill into parliament during the second half of the year.

Some of the recommendations from the legal affairs and safety committee included banning the display of hate symbols relating to Nazi and ISIS ideology, working with the commonwealth to address online vilification and relocating the section of the Anti-Discrimination Act that deals with serious hate crimes into the state’s criminal code.