By the same token, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism has refused to comment on the March or its neo-Nazi leadership, & in official discourse opposition to antisemitism is largely identified w support for the Israeli state, currently engaged in a genocidal campaign against Palestine.
Further, the Envoy's family trust has donated $50,000 to reactionary right-wing lobby group Advance, whose tireless promotion of xenophobic sentiment, along w that routinely engaged in by key segments of media & 'politics', helps to nurture the sentiments the neo-Nazis are only too happy to utilise.
In this context, it's also worthwhile recognising that the initial spark for the March for (White) Australia was the March for Humanity (in opposition to the genocide) on AUG 3, which attracted massive support (s/thing in the order of 2-300,000 ppl in SYD) & triggered an angry nationalist backlash.
A meathead on Twitter summarises the March for White Australia's political dynamism quite succinctly as follows:
That war of terror campaign still paying dividends 25 years later
Ofc, xenophobic sentiment, policy & practice is embedded in Australian political institutions: George II's inauguration of 'The War on Terror' (first initiated by Reagan decades previously) & Fortress Australia form the general political context; the White Australia policy its historical background.
To which must be added: Australia's status as a colonial-settler state & sub-imperial power; a labour movement at an historic low ebb; historic lvls of income & wealth inequality; global ecological catastrophe; an era of polycrisis at the end of the anthropocene/capitalocene.
*For a contrary, establishment view, see Maximum Chips in The Australian, (DEC 9, 2017), who boldly declared: 'A problem for the Australian antifa, and indeed for anti-fascist groups in Europe and the US, is that few people and organisations they oppose here have much to do with Nazism.'
Grand commentary here: slackbastard.anarchobase.com?p=42206
People talk about the right way to live Shut up! You don't know what yr on about You marched for 'em, look at ya! You dirty rat ... #FCKNZS www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FM7...
I always knew Chip Le Grand was a stooge
I don't even understand said meathead's point Are they saying people who march against genocide in Palestine are really secretly plotting the death of Craig and Wayne in the carpark of their local bottle-o?
mate, as far as i'm concerned, craig and his stoopid bloody mate wayne are the first to go. *yes, i believe meathead thinks -- or wants us to believe/to convince himself -- that the march for humanity was an incipient form of genocide of (white) australia; ie, he's riffing on the great replacement
Craigie and Wayneo are quite sure they really are that important 🙄 - if not even more so 😂
Seems so
Yes, that is exactly what they are saying
mate. as the great man said: 'if you have a go, you'll get a go!'
Half of them.