White nationalist political party Australia First has denied authorship of a ‘racist’ election leaflet.
Racist leaflets not ours: Australia First
ABC
July 24, 2010A minor party that opposes immigration says leaflets which breach electoral rules are being distributed in Western Sydney to discredit its candidates…
The leaflet features an image taken from the library generated by US-based Tom Metzger’s neo-Nazi group ‘White Aryan Resistance’. The collection has been in circulation for decades, and until a few years ago was featured locally on former Australia First member Martin Fletcher’s site ‘Downunder Newslinks’ (Martin has since jumped ship for AF’s rivals in the ‘Australian Protectionist Party’).
AF is standing two candidates at the election: Tony Pettitt in Greenway and Mick Saunders in Lindsay. Nominations for the poll close at midday on Thursday, July 29, so it remains possible that the party and APP may stand other candidates in other electorates. Otherwise, the party is busy organising for the Sydney Forum in September, at which Canadian Holocaust denialist Paul Fromm has been announced as the conference’s special guest speaker.
In other news, former Australia First Party staffer and co-founder Denis McCormack, introduced as an Independent Immigration Researcher (in which capacity he took part in ‘Australia Deliberates: Muslims and Non-Muslims in Australia’ in September 2007), was a guest on MTR this evening, a member of a panel (including Adam Bandt) discussing refugee and immigration issues.
See also : Outrage over anti-immigration leaflet (January 22, 2010) | Do YOU Want Frankston To Become Like Dandenong? (August 22, 2009).
I can’t actually find a reference to those leaflets being distro-ed in Western Syd. The source (electionleaflets.org.au) refers to them being distroed in the Riverina area in April, which could be why AF finks someone is playing silly buggers.
Yeah. But only uploaded on July 21. AF in Riverina got some press in January —
http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/farright-fanatics-coming-to-town/1726066.aspx
— then in February “A fervent advocate of the region’s African migrant community, David Fletcher” reckons he got what looks to be the same leaflet posted to his home —
http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/refugee-supporters-receive-hate-mail/1741095.aspx
AF again denied responsibility —
http://www.dailyadvertiser.com.au/news/local/news/general/afp-denies-hatemail-involvement/1743464.aspx
Also…
The extreme right lives
Pam Walker
March 31, 2010
Since the report in the last edition of the City Hub of an ‘infiltration’ by the far-right Public Information Forum into the Humanist Society in Chippendale, evidence has come to light of a resurgence of activity from the alphabet soup of organisations that make up the Sydney far right.
Racist and anonymous leaflets have been distributed in Newtown, Chippendale and Waterloo calling for immigrants to be ‘banned.’ And in February anti-immigrant leaflets were distributed at Sydney University where about 22 per cent of students are international students…
http://www.altmedia.net.au/the-extreme-right-lives/17964