- Last Update: August 22, 2009
Previous Update: May 24, 2008
Below is a collection of posts regarding a number of individuals on the Australian far right, ranked [rather inconveniently I now realise] from most recent (1) to earliest:
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Sue Bateman / Stormfront.org & One Nation (Perth, WA) : 1, 2, 3
May 24, 2008: Sue stood for election in November 2007 in the seat of Fremantle, WA. Unfortunately for Sue, she lost, gaining 988 votes or 1.2%, a decline of 0.9% on the 2004 election results, and coming sixth in a field of eight candidates (defeating the SA and CEC). In March 2008, Sue was pictured embracing Paul Innes at a Stormfront BBQ (date unknown).
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Colin Campbell / WCOTR (Adelaide, SA) : 1, 2
August 1, 2006
Peter Campbell / WPCA (Sydney, NSW) : 1, 2
May 31, 2006; July 21, 2006; September 15, 2006; September 16, 2006
Nathan Clarke (Newcastle, NSW) : A real estate agent who hates Jews.
Luke Connors / ex-Patriotic Youth League (Melbourne, VIC) : 1, 2
May 24, 2008: Luke appears to have avoided cancer. He also appears to have left Stormfront, been booted out of Australia First, but remains sympathetic to a splinter organisation, the Australian Protectionist Party (APP), as well as the notionally ‘anarchist’ groupuscule New Right.
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John Drew / ex-Patriotic Youth League/Australia First (Brisbane, QLD) : 1
July 3, 2007; August 1, 2007
May 24, 2008: John Drew has been in the wars. Left holding the bag that was the Patriotic Youth League, the middle-aged racist ran into trouble on Stormfront after opining that male homosexual activity was kosher. This caused some consternation, but John appears to retain the support of the liberal-minded Doctor James Saleam.
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Welf Herfurth (Sydney, NSW) : German-born fascist, forty-something Fuehrer of the New Right, and notional anarchist.
Darrin Hodges / ex-Australia First, Anglo-Australian National Community Council (Sydney, NSW) : 1, 2, 3
June 25, 2006; July 6, 2006; August 18, 2006; September 11, 2006; June 12, 2007
May 24, 2008: Darrin Hodges has gone from strength to strength. After being booted out of Australia First, Darrin has embraced its rival, the APP, and transferred his healthy political fixation from The Jew to The Muslim.
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David Innes / ex-Stormfront.org (Perth, WA) : 1, 2
August 1, 2006; September 10, 2006; February 20, 2007; March 24, 2007; April 8, 2007; June 25, 2007; July 18, 2007; July 21, 2007; August 1, 2007
May 24, 2008: David Innes’ story is a cautionary one. After devoting considerable time and energy to promoting Stormfront, David is now denounced by almost all as a ‘traitor’; the one, possible exception to this startling new trend is his beanie-clad brother Paul, who has now assumed David’s former partner’s role as Moderator of Stormfront Down Under.
Paul Innes (Perth, WA) : David’s brother, and current Moderator of Stormfront Down Under. Paul likes to wear beanies, and is also currently seeking to create a racial Paradise by purging a little part of Perth of non-Whites.
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Rhys McLean (Newcastle, NSW) : For a brief period, Rhys was the Great White Hope at Stormfront Down Under.
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Patrick O’Sullivan (Melbourne, VIC): A Reverend in what remains of one of the numerous splinters in the World Church of the Creator, Patrick spends his time abusing others and placing stickers on poles.
Damien Ovchynik (Melbourne, VIC) : Damien likes tattoos, but not faggots, gooks, Jews, niggers or race traitors. He expresses his opinions as vocalist for local neo-Nazi band Bail Up!.
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Dävid Palmer (Sydney, NSW) : The joker in the pack, also Imperial Wizard of the Australian Ku Klux Klan, and arch-nemesis of Doctor James Saleam. Dävid, along with John Drew and David Innes, was featured in an article in Zoo (August 6, 2007). Quote: “Jews and other races are destroying our nation by interbreeding. It destroys our Australian Anglo-Saxon European base culture. We call it multi-mongrelism. The KKK appeals to people because the hoods provide anonymity to our members who are lawyers, policemen, teachers and tradesmen. We integrated KKK members with the Australian Nazi Movement, which I formed, to make the National Socialist Defence of Australian People. The NSDAP is against non-European immigration…”
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Andrew Sanders / Fightback.org (Sydney, NSW) : 1, 2
May 24, 2008: Acquitted of all charges, Sanders is as pure as the driven snow.
James Saleam / Australia First (Sydney, NSW) : 1, 2, 3, 4
August 8, 2006; August 16, 2006; August 22, 2006; August 25, 2006; January 7, 2007; February 1, 2007; March 5, 2007; March 10, 2007; May 23, 2007; June 15, 2007; June 19, 2007
May 24, 2008: James Saleam is constantly in the news, dragging the carcass of his political ambitions behind him. After a few minor setbacks, James remains at the helm of a much-reduced AF, and will likely remain so until such time as he finds a more suitable political vehicle, or dies. Most recently, James has attempted to resurrect the tale of his political persecution at the hands of the authorities; nobody knows if it will be another 13 years before he makes it to court with his appeal.
Douglas Schott (Newcastle, NSW) : Formerly a punk, currently a bonehead, Douglas is vocalist for Newcastle neo-Nazi Viking warrior band Blood Red Eagle.
Dane Sweetman / ? (Melbourne, VIC) : 1, 2, 3
May 24, 2008: Sweetman does not appear to have murdered anyone since his release.
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Carl D. Thompson (Brisbane, QLD) : A veteran and unashamed neo-Nazi, Carl may be found on Storrmfront Down Under, preaching the virtues of his patron saint, Adolf Hitler.
Jack van Tongeren / ex-ANM (Perth, WA) : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
May 24, 2008: After being released from prison, going on the run, and then being re-captured, van Tongeren appears to have embraced his role model’s initial career choice and settled down to life as a painter.
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Ben Weerheym / ex-ANM (Perth, WA) : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
May 29, 2006, November 9, 2006; May 15, 2007; May 23, 2007; July 9, 2007
May 24, 2008: Well well well: Ben Weerheym. His madcap adventures, both real and virtual, could fill a blog. In fact, for a period of several years, they did. Now, however, Weerheym has retired (July 2007) from a public life as a racist dimwit, and exchanged his brownshirt for a pair of leotards. Or so the story goes.
See also : Anti-fascism archive.
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Who was Francis de Groot?
A recent volume (#89, November 2005) of Labor History explores ‘The ‘Extreme Right’ in Twentieth Century Australia’ and is edited by Andrew Moore.
NB. Anarchists in Australia — especially those drawn from the Italian and Spanish immigrant communities — have been fighting fascism since Mussolini’s putrid ideology first crawled out of the swamp of Italian national politics in the 1920s. Here’s a link to an article which explores one aspect of that history :
Gianfranco Cresciani, “The Proletarian Migrants: Fascism and Italian Anarchists in Australia”. First published in The Australian Quarterly (March, 1979).
Anarchists took to visiting clubs, restaurants and boarding houses known to be frequented by Fascists, and provoked the latter to fight. The anarchists were armed with knives, truncheons and even pistols. Uncorroborated evidence indicates that during the 1928 Victorian timber strike they were considering the use of explosives, in support of the strikers. Yet, the most common form of violence during these years was the practice of assaulting members of Fascist organisations and of ripping from their coats the Fascist Party badge, that the anarchists publicly and contemptuously named the nit. Even Fascist Consuls were not exempt from this treatment. Count Gabrio di San Marzano, Italian Consul at Brisbane, while attending a reception given in his honour at Ingham had his badge stripped from his official dress and, adding insult to injury, the triumphant anarchists also encouraged the band to play the Internationale. This same Consul was repeatedly beaten and spat upon during his visits at Ingham, Babinda and Cairns, and was eventually and humiliatingly driven to accept police protection when he went to Innisfail.
This philosophy of direct action, incessantly preached and practised by Italian anarchists, starkly differentiated them from the other Italian political groups who, like the Communists, devoted themselves to organisation or who, like the more respectable Socialists of the Concentrazione Antifascista dell’Oceania, concentrated their effort on commemorations of past victories and defeats. Indeed, it was this recourse to action which made the anarchists so popular and attracted to them such a large following. As Carmagnola said in 1930, ‘we must remember our martyrs not only with speeches and flowers, but with guns, not like slaves, but like men. We must not celebrate, but avenge. A people that does not fight violence by means of violence, that bends its knees and cowardly tolerates the impositions of infamous mercenaries, is unworthy of such a name’…
The political decline of Anarchism in the ‘thirties was considered by many of its followers as a mere temporary setback in the long march towards the form of society that they dreamed of accomplishing. During those dark years of Fascist triumphs they believed stubbornly in the defiant words which end Malatesta’s pamphlet Anarchy [?] and which, in the final analysis, prove to be historically relevant when applied to the anti-Fascist activities of Italian anarchists in Australia:
Whatever happens, we shall have some influence on events, by our numbers, our energy, our intelligence and our steadfastness. Also, even if now we are conquered, our work will not have been in vain; … If today we fall without lowering our colours, our cause is certain of victory tomorrow.
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