Wednesday January 4, 2005 07:37 AM AAP<\/p>\n
Australia First to re-register as party<\/p>\n
The ultra-nationalist Australia First movement is to re-register as a political party.<\/p>\n
The far-right group has written to supporters seeking the 500 membership forms necessary to register with the Australian Electoral Commission, The Australian newspaper reports.<\/p>\n
It then plans to target federal and local council elections with candidates expected to start campaigning in the next few weeks to keep Australia predominantly white.<\/p>\n
“What’s being done in Australia now is a situation where the European identity is being deprecated further, to the point where Europeans will disappear next century,” the newspaper quotes the party’s NSW secretary, Jim Saleam<\/a>, as saying.<\/p>\n “Under certain circumstances that would be called a genocide, but it’s not, it’s called progress.”<\/p>\n Mr Saleam, who was jailed for three-and-a-half years in 1991 for possessing a firearm and organising a shotgun attack on the home of the African National Congress’ Australian representative, Eddie Funde, denied any personal links to neo-Nazi groups, the paper said.<\/p>\n Australia First, which was de-registered in 2004 for failing to put forward a federal election candidate in four years, has been accused of being linked to the neo-Nazi movement and its members were seen handing out pamphlets at the race riot in Cronulla, the newspaper says.<\/p>\n The group intends to target council seats in four NSW electorates including Sutherland Shire, Marrickville, Coffs Harbour and Newcastle where it also plans to contest the office of mayor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wednesday January 4, 2005 07:37 AM AAP Australia First to re-register as party The ultra-nationalist Australia First movement is to re-register as a political party. The far-right group has written to supporters seeking the 500 membership forms necessary to register … Continue reading