Reclaim Australia
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The Far Right on African Youth
Far Right groups have jumped on the bank wagon of anti-African sentiment. Some are expressing it as anti-refugee sentiment, other as pure racism against people with dark skin, while a third group seek to present it as another version of “Muslim extremism”. Here’s a few examples of what we’ve seen: Case 1: Racism The Reclaim…
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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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E-mail with a Reclaimer
Earlier today we put out a newsletter with our report on the Reclaim Australia Rally as well as the anti-Racism counter rally. Our mailing list has a diverse range of people on it. Some are researchers and government officials. Many are ordinary people opposed to all forms of racism and bigotry. A few support our work…
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Melbourne Rally Against Racism
There is a clear and present danger to Australia. There are people, who seem not to know what it means to be Australian. They don’t value what we value. They take their ideas from across the seas and seek to transplant them here. They take messages of fear that are spread in other places, and…
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Don’t give in to extremism
The Age has reported that the United Patriots Front, an off shoot of Reclaim Australia, posted a video of CCTV footage of the assassination of anti-racism activist Carlos Javier Palomino in 2007. The murder took place on a packed train where a neo-Nazi stabbed Palomino in the heart. The posting of the video was a…
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Facebook Fails to Protect Free Speech Against Hate
Social media companies claim the best response to hate speech is more speech. The use of counter speech is an important tool in combating all forms of online hate, but it comes with some unavoidable limitations. In addition to these limitations, we are now seeing a systemic failure at Facebook which is resulting in counter…
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The Right Honourable Useful Idiots
Highlighting the idiocy of the small number of Jews who supported the Reclaim Australia rally is the focus of an article (reproduced below) by Dr Andre Oboler, CEO of the Online Hate Prevention Institute, in this week’s Australian Jewish News. The article highlights the origins of the Australian anti-Muslim hate movement, which comes out of…