Supporters of an anti-immigration rally are being warned not to attend the massive protest, with politicians branding the movement as having ‘no place’ in Australia.
March for Australia is organising the protests that will take place on August 31 in several capital cities, including Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide.
The organisers, who described themselves as a ‘grassroots coalition of nationalists, patriots and everyday Australians’, have the aim of gathering likeminded people to demand an end to mass immigration.
…Minister for Multicultural Affairs Anne Aly claimed the protest had ‘no place in modern Australia’.
Dr Aly, who was born in Egypt and migrated to Australia when she was two years old, warned the rally would not intimidate the multicultural communities in the country.
‘Multiculturalism is an integral and valued part of our national identity,’ Dr Aly told Newswire.
‘We stand with all Australians, no matter where they were born, against those who seek to divide us and who seek to intimidate migrant communities. We will not be intimidated.
‘This brand of far-right activism grounded in racism and ethnocentrism has no place in modern Australia.’
Is that what this is? Nobody seems to know. Crikey.
A planned anti-immigration rally is falling apart, with key “freedom” groups pulling out over alleged links to the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN). Fresh from its midnight march through the Melbourne CBD, the NSN has fired back, accusing “foreign actors” of trying to hijack the event to dilute its white-supremacist agenda.
The “March for Australia” — which began as a now-deleted TikTok from an anonymous user that racked up more than a million views — was pitched as a nationalist answer to the recent pro-Palestine rally that drew more than 100,000 people to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It quickly became a rallying point for anti-immigration activists.
However, the scramble to claim credit for its online success has exposed deep fractures in the pandemic-era coalition of anti-lockdown and nationalist groups. And with organisers of the planned march still hiding their identity, supporters are demanding answers.
The NSN, led by neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell — currently charged with intimidating a police officer and multiple personal safety intervention order breaches following police raids targeting the NSN in November — is the only group to have publicly claimed responsibility for organising the March for Australia. However, the march’s Facebook page swiftly rejected this.
There are plans under way for a “March for Australia” that is taking place (according to one of the anonymous organisers – multiple people claim to be in charge) on 31 August.
Sydney’s Daily Telegraph strongly featured the flyer for the event, with the date and time and the March’s slogans at the top of the story. News.com.au worried that the protest had sparked a “divisive debate” (as opposed to itself being divisive). Both also pointed out racist links.
This is a bit like a surgeon fainting at the sight of blood. Don’t be a journalist if you’re afraid of truth.
Last weekend, LVO attended the ADC Leadership Retreat to discuss the role of immigration in the economy.
On a panel of seven eminent economists, in front of a room full of them, there was zero pushback to the assessment that the immigration-led eocnomy is lowering living standards.
It goes to show that, once out of the public glare of the racism claims, most thinking people know what is going on.
The charge of Nazism can just as easily be pointed at the immigration book burners as it can at those trying to protect living standards.
Which is not to say that this protest should be supported if it is organised by actual Nazi weirdos.
David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal.
He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.
