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It was thrust into the public eye when it claimed responsibility for a series of Chinese-language posters at universities threatening Chinese students with deportation. The group describes itself as a youth organisation that adheres to National Socialism as an 'embodiment of health values' matched with an unrelenting mission to 'keep Australia white'. It is the real-life form of the once-online far right network The Iron March - its logo combines a laurel wreath with a swastika. Of all these groups, however, it is the Antipodean Resistance that takes the title of being the most explicitly Nazi in outlook. Late last year, an investigation by ABC's Background Briefing exposed a coordinated attempt of another group, 'the Lads Society', to infiltrate and then influence the Young Nationals in NSW. The United Patriots Front, for example, attempted to arrange vigilante patrols last year to help maintain law and order in some Melbourne suburbs, in a stated response to 'Gangs of Africans'. 'The current movement is blending together both European Nazism and Australian white supremacy, racism and colonialism.'Ī spread of far right groups, often with only minor ideological variations between them, are employing a range of tactics to spread and exercise their message. 'We are seeing a modern incarnation of Australian Nazism, which picks up on many of the threads in the past, but which adapts to the current moment,' Dr Silverstein says. In Australia today, as with overseas, the far right has been emboldened by the internet, which has allowed fascist groups to gain unprecedented reach across borders. He is the current leader of the Australia First Party, which counts amongst its policies an intention to, 'end the divisive, government funded, and institutionalised policy of multiculturalism forwith'. Mr Saleam remains a steady fixture in the far right. In the latter decades of the 20th century the Australian far right was kept alive by characters like Ross 'the Skull' May, and Jim Saleam of the group National Action. Its small spotlight slowly faded as membership plummeted.

It unsuccessfully contested the May 1970 ACT by-election, and many subsequent polls in Queensland. It consisted entirely of Cawthron and Lindsay, until they were joined the following year by Arthur Smith, a prominent political figure known for his outward anti-Semitism and aggressive tactics. Vigorously anti-communist, the party argued for the perpetuation of the White Australia policy, a defensive approach to Asia and the total annexation of New Guinea. Yet not two decades had passed before University of Adelaide physics student Ted Cawthron and council worker Don Lindsay convened in 1962 to form the Australian National Socialist Party. The wounds of the war imprinted a pariah status on Nazism, rendering it more or less politically untouchable for the remainder of the century.įar right groups, like the League of Rights, tended to avoid the labels of Nazism or fascism when promoting their brand of politics.

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He spent almost three years in a camp without trial - a decision described by Australia's official war historian Paul Hasluck as the 'grossest infringement of individual liberty made during the war'.

Stephensen was interned for much of World War II. The group was eventually suppressed by Australian security agencies after it pushed for a political alliance with the Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan. 'Australian Nazis were not only on the fringes but made up by a selection of more mainstream political travellers, tourists, writers, poets, mystics, aesthetes and academic thinkers,' he says. Stephensen was the most publicly visible of what historian David Bird describes as 'a surprisingly diverse group of Australians of similar persuasion'. The group advocated for the pseudoscience of eugenics, and the establishment of a nationalist corporate state.

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