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"The contingent of neo-Nazis arrived at Flinders Street station about an hour
before Sunday’s anti-immigration rally was due to start.
A hundred or so men, dressed in black, strode across Princes Bridge in a bloc,
weaving through the large crowd that had already gathered under a sea of
Australian flags.
Plenty of people in the lead-up to the so-called March for Australia on Sunday,
and many who attended, said that the widespread promotion of the rally by known
neo-Nazis did not mean it was organised by them; or that the presence of the
National Socialist Network (NSN) in the crowd did not mean it was central to
the day’s message.
Even if they were there, some said, you didn’t have to agree with everything
they said in order to attend.
In Melbourne, however, neo-Nazis were not just central to the march, they led
it, all the way to the steps of parliament. And the NSN leader, Thomas Sewell,
when he addressed the crowd to huge cheers, clearly laid out the role he
envisioned for “my men” in the “fight for [Australia’s] survival” against
“ginormous empires of the third world”.
Members of the group went on to attack a First Nations protest site, Camp
Sovereignty, in Melbourne’s Kings Domain on Sunday evening.
In Sydney, too, the New South Wales leader of the group spoke to cheers of
“send them back” from onlookers as Australian flags flew in the background.
Pamphlets were handed out for a far-right political party about the “plague
level” of immigration.
Australia’s immigration figures are not at record highs. The government says
the net overseas migration figure is down 37% from a recent peak."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
