far-right
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Bourke Street Attack November 2018
This article is referred to in OHPI’s Annual Report for the 2018 Financial Year. Return to the Report. Background At around 4:10 pm on Friday the 9th of November a car was driven into shops on Bourke Street in Melbourne. A man set the car on fire and proceeded to attack members of the public with…
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The far-right trolls
We’ve just banned the second person from the Online Hate Prevention Institute’s Facebook page since the #DebateWithoutHate campaign started 5 days ago. In that time the main article has been liked / shared over 1,300 times on Facebook. As we explained in our article about the first ban, under our “no platform policy” we ban…
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Nathan Sykes an Australian Troll
Luke McMahon has written an excellent article for the Sydney Morning Herald revealing the real identity, online personas, harassment and intimidation campaigns of far-right extremist Nathan Sykes. The Online Hate Prevention Institute and our CEO, Dr Andre Oboler, have been one of the targets of Sykes who is a former professional journalist and more recently a regular contributor…
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Nazi Group’s Poster Campaign in Melbourne
Update February 15th The group discussed in this article spent Valentines Day planing 1,000 small stickers with a heart and their groups name around Melbourne. The described it on Twitter as a treasure hunt for anti-fascist activists to find and remove them all. Again this is not something to be left to activists. If you see a…
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The Far-Right on Social Media
The threats, incitement and expressions of violence appearing in the comments on the pages of far-right groups have been causing concern for police and the community at large. These comments are often more blatant and violent than the posts made by the pages themselves. The threat We were asked whether, given the comments, these groups…
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Sept 11 and today’s rising anti-Muslim hate
Today, on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States we remember the victims of terrorism. We remember the devastation and human tragedy that extremist ideology can cause. We reflect as today Daesh (ISIS) with its brutal extremist ideology attacks civilians in Iraq and Syria causing an international refugee crisis as large…
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The danger of the Australian Far-Right
“Australia officially now has a political party modelled on the far-right wing movements in Europe”. That’s the opening of an article in the Sydney Morning Herald last Sunday. The far-right in Australia, however, has a twist. There are the overt neo-Nazis, and the movement is supported by far-right groups from overseas like Greece’s Golden Dawn,…
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The ups and downs of an anonymous, anti-fascist life
June 4, 2014, Andy Fleming, The ups and downs of an anonymous, anti-fascist life, Overland, https://overland.org.au/2014/06/the-ups-and-downs-of-an-anonymous-anti-fascist-life/ I soon learned that Dandakaranya, the forest I was about to enter, was full of people who had many names and fluid identities. It was like balm to me, that idea. How lovely not to be stuck with yourself, to…
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Social Media, Golden Dawn and Australia’s Far-Right
An update to this briefing is available here. On 30 January, 2013, the Australian First Party Brisbane created a Facebook page. On November 7, 2013, a Facebook page called Australians for the Golden Dawn Party was created. Five months later, on May 2, 2014, Brisbane became the site of a Golden Dawn solidarity rally. The…