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Melbourne, Plague Rats, Nazis, Grifters, Cliev & Pied Pipers (Rally on November 20)

Update (November 18, 2021) : Far-right protester charged by counter-terror police amid talk of killing Daniel Andrews, Nick McKenzie and Clay Lucas, The Age, November 18, 2021 | Melbourne man charged with inciting protesters to make explosives, Danny Tran, ABC, … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #094 w Vashti Fox on anti-fascism, 1970s Melbourne & 1980s Perth : November 11, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Vashti Fox about Jack Van Tongeren’s ‘Australian Nationalists Movement’ in Perth in the 1980s and the ‘National Socialist Party of Australia’ in Melbourne in the 1970s. Vashti is the … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #093 w Daphne Halikiopoulou on Golden Dawn and the right in Greece : November 4, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Daphne Halikiopoulou [Twitter] about Golden Dawn, populism, ‘economic anxiety’ and the welfare state, New Democracy and the far-right in Greece. Daphne is a professor of comparative politics at the … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #091 w Cas Mudde on Populism & The Far Right : October 21, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Cas Mudde [Twitter], a Dutchman who doubles as an academic (Stanley Wade Shelton UGAF Professor of International Affairs) and podcaster (Radikaal) and has written extensively on the subjects of … Continue reading

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#CFMEUForever : COVID-19, Construction & COVIDIOTs

On September 20, the Melbourne office of the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) was attacked by a group of angry anti-vaxxers and their allies: a motley assortment of malcontents, including union members, fueled by far-right myth-makers on … Continue reading

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Deconstructing a criticism : A reply to Jeremy Salt

[A few weeks ago I wrote something for Overland titled Constructing a narrative: the CFMEU protest and the far right (September 23, 2021). Last week, Jeremy Salt offered some criticism of the piece and, because my reply is so long, … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #089 w Alex Mendela on The Q Origins Project : October 7, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Alex Mendela [Twitter], the so-called ‘fancy lad’ of The Q Origins Project: ‘A close look at the earliest days of QAnon, showing Q’s origins in, and relationship to, broader … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #088 w Cristina Moreno-Almeida on Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right : September 30, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Cristina Moreno-Almeida, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow researching Digital Cultures in Morocco and the author (with Paolo Gerbaudo) of Memes and the Moroccan Far-Right (The International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. … Continue reading

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Yeah Nah Pasaran! #087 w Sophie Bjork-James on White Evangelicalism : September 23, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Sophie Bjork-James [Twitter], an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021), which … Continue reading

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A Brief Guide To The Australian Far Right (September 2021 Edition)

aw geez I last updated this guide in July 2020. At the time, I declared 40 different groups and projekts — holdovers from April 2019 — effectively defunct, though it should be admitted that at least one of these — … Continue reading

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