Public sentiment around the anti-immigration protests in Australia is deeply polarized, with a significant number of commenters raising valid concerns about mass migration's effects on housing, jobs, and cultural identity. While many support stricter immigration policies, there is a strong counter-narrative condemning racism and advocating for a more inclusive approach to immigration. The overall dialogue reflects frustration with government policies and a division between those feeling economic pressure and those promoting multiculturalism.

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I feel like I'm missing so much context rn lol

Kyivkid91

ReporterAdventurous

There appears to be conflict between anti-immigrant but pro-Israel anti-Islamists (boomer/Gen X leaning) and the proper Sewell lead neo-Nazis. 

Tradie corps doing shoey lol what the fuck is happening:

[https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1756608524283549.jpg](https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1756608524283549.jpg)

DoingStuff-ImStuff

pawg-ranch

I would feel bad for Australia having a bunch of migrants but when I realized they barely have more people than North Korea for a whole continent this just feels very gay

sandcowboy

livestream: [https://www.youtube.com/live/2WZCmj5VV1Q](https://www.youtube.com/live/2WZCmj5VV1Q)

How is it that nearly every single white-majority country is simultaneously being subjected to unrelenting waves of migration and demographic transformation, in direct contravention of the democratic will of the people?

Quiet_Childhood4066

Ok jeez, we’ll go back to NZ then. Strewth

nakifool

A hodgepodge of many different groups who seemingly don't want anything to do with eachother. I could hear chants of "deport, deport, deport" and "who's street? our street!" on the federation sun stream, Chopping Board himself was on the receiving end of pretty blatant antisemitism from within.

I have reservations about infinite immigration, most people do, but it's obvious the intent behind many attending is to just insult and belittle migrants. It looks like the counterprotests are smaller than the main act, but not by much, a few clashes are making the rounds already.

Teleket

I'm in Brisbane and the local sub is being extremely g@y as usual. Just an echo chamber of people labelling anyone and everyone Nazis. 

Have we not learnt anything? All this suppression of speech and vilifying anyone with a differering viewpoint is how the US got Trump. I can guarantee there a a bunch of centrists who lean slightly right who agree completely with the sentiment of these protests.

rheniumatom

Went for a run during this and ran along a parallel road to the main action. Bumped into a few mini waves of people from both protest sides (the main protest was the march for Australia aka anti mass migration one but there were also anti-protests that effectively were Palestine protests, which I found confusing.

A few thoughts:  
\- the march for australia people seemed to be predominantly working class white people. I grew up in rural Canada and they seemed like them. Factory worker types, trades types, farmer types. Rougher around the edges types.  
\- lots of talk about them being neo-nazis wearing masks etc but admittedly didn't get that vibe at all from what I saw, though I wasn't in the main area. Just loads of people wearing Australian flags. Surprising number of families.  
\- came across the anti-protestors walking down the street as well and they seemed quite angry, which admittedly makes sense as they were the anti-protestors and they consider the protestors to be... nazis.  
\- I was surprised in that the anti-protestors seemed more unhinged. Saw written stuff like "die nazi scum", "burn this colony down", "death to the colony", "free free Palestine. Fuck Australia". My favorite tho was "capitalists are the real problem"

My overall takeaway was that the media vs on the ground was quite stark. As a sort of global city-person who grew up in a rural Canada, I feel sort of bad for the march for australia protestors. I suspect some of them are racist and there likely are some nazi people tagging along (just like on the other side there are some people tagging along saying "burn this colony down"), but overall my sense is this is a cry for help or towards a last gasp of a class of people that aren't going to do well in the future. The anti protestors are definitely the educated elite and places like Australia (and Canada) are ahead of the game as far as mass migration. In some time most countries will wish to be able to attract people to help bolster social safety nets with fertility declines etc etc.

My overall takeaway is that both sides are stuck on surface level stuff, which is a shame.

tropicalparzival

O-COHANL

reticenttom

DV offender archetypes, all of them, and these are apparently the preservers of "Western culture".

EmilCioranButGay

jinx_the_sphinx

[https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1756606463531083.jpg](https://i.4cdn.org/pol/1756606463531083.jpg)

Its really pumping now

GrandFunkRRX

Credit to the Age for the photos. These are happening Australia-wide, in Sydney and Brisbane also. I might pop down to take a look now.

mondomovieguys

This is fucking hectic Jesus Christ properly mental. This was due but not this ferocity wow

PietroGermi

They are a loud minority. You'll be fine.

Tha_Green_Kronic

&gt;is it really safe to be an immigrant there anymore?

Virtually everyone in Australia is either an immigrant or descended from an immigrant. Including almost everyone who supposedly hates "immigrants". Even Aussies who identify as indigenous are likely to have a parent/grandparent/etc who immigrated here.

About 32% of people in Australia were not born here. 50% of us have a parent who wasn't born here. Those are based on official and reliable statistics. If you expand that to people with at least one grandparent who was born outside Australia that covers the vast majority of our population.

Anyone who hates "immigrants" is basically saying they hate most Australians. That's nonsense and this is in fact a racism issue. They are hiding their racism by trying to call it something else.

With so many people here who come from places all over the world, racism definitely exists in Australia but the vast majority of us are welcoming to immigrants / tourists / foreign students no matter where they come from. All we ask is that you treat us the same way.

OldMail6364

In a year the whole place and immigration issues might be different for better or worse. Where are you going to go instead? Oh that place that also has immigration issues. This isn't just an Australian issue, it's happening the UK, Canada, US, Europe...

SlothySundaySession

You're going to find most people here are pretty friendly. Your bigger grievance is going to be how our government will do its best to squeeze as much money out of you as it possibly can, with fees for visas, English proficiency tests, and the like. They see international students as a big cash-cow.

alex_wildthing

The irony of white anti-immigration protesters raiding an Aboriginal camp is extreme. 

I wouldn't worry, these are just cookers

geoffm_aus

This is so sad to read. I promise that most Australians will welcome you, the neo-nazis are a problem here, but, they're a loud minority. I will not lie and say that Australia does not have a huge racism problem, because, we do.  
But, majority of us are fine and not racist. Those people you're seeing on TV do NOT speak for all of us.

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YourBestBroski

Aussie here 👋🏼 neither myself or my friends and family claim anyone who went to that protest. We love you and welcome you with open arms. Racist pigs are the ones who aren’t welcome 💕

Vast_Instruction_575

Most are definitely anti "religion of peace"

Willing-Signal-4965

Nuclearwormwood

Sadly yes. Like the US, its best to avoid australia for the next 4 years, atleast until we know for sure whether or not fascism and racism are on the rise here. You’d be much better off going to pro immigrant leftist countries like china if u can’t afford to wait 4 years 

Fletch009

Honest take:

Australia generally speaking is not institutionally racist, meaning the country is not run by people with racist ideologies, but there are exceptions, i.e. treatment of Aboriginals, Police, generally speaking, productive immigrants do not suffer from it.

Australians generally speaking are not violently racist, however Australians can be extremely insensitive, that's just how it is here, nothing is sacred.

i.e. I was called a fucking chink when I disputed a JB HIFI warranty return. The same person later on refuse to admit he is racist, he was just frustrated and I was told to harden the f up 

There's a loud and visible segment of the population who are extremely entitled and simplistic, that often reduce complex problems to badly thought out simple solutions.

The whole housing and standard of living crisis and blaming immigrants is one example of this.

Typical-Analyst-1307

No, just the minority that consumes mainstream media and lacks critical thinking skills. I was blessed with a (possibly rare) childhood tradition where every Chinese New Year, our next-door-neighbour (a rather large Scottish bloke and his family) put on a mega-banquet of International dishes for a LOT of people, families from as many nations as he could connect with. We were the lucky Australians invited every year to this amazing event. It was a short walk for us, and an amazing procession of stories from around the world.

mch1971

Australia has seen a large decline in living standards recently and right wing fringe groups are trying to seize on this moment to further their own cause. 

Even leading up to the protests they were trying to make it seem like it was about housing and the rate of immigration to increase attendance but if you had any common sense it was obvious this was going to be a racist white supremacy protest.

Australia is still generally safe and multicultural but the white Australia policy only ended in the 1970s so it is not that far into our past.

Key-Arrival-7896

Australia is only okay with immigrants if they’re white 🙄 I like to think these dickheads are the minority, but they’re just so darn loud about their stupidity unfortunately 

I’m literally first gen, but since I’m white none of the cookers I work with seem to lump me in with the ‘evil immigrants stealing housing and jobs’… fucking idiots

Pale-Fruit5201

Going to be real honest with you.

Most honest folks can see that mass migration is a big problem, that's what they are protesting.

Most honest folk saw the neo nazis and condemn them aswell, and anyone not actually protesting and using it as a way to spread chaos.

If you are a serial redditor or tend to take word of what people say here then you are cooked, because they will jump in the bandwagon of nazi this nazi that, media will paint the worst pictures because thats what brings views.

You're welcomed to come here, if you decide to want to live here then for the love of god please assimilate, because we wouldnt even having this discussion if people were doing that instead of making pockets of other countries here, which coincidentially is probably the places you dont want to go live around.

Honest folk see the protests for other countries here, flag burning and just people that dont even seem to like australia and they get pissed, which makes them want to go out to press on the real issues.

Anyone here telling you otherwise is brain dead.

And I'm saying this as a immigrant myself, though at this point I'd like to call myself australian, because I am in australia and living here and I have been seeing how bad things have gotten in the past 15+ years, though I don't doubt it was happening even further back.

GoldThird

No. 

But there is a small vocal minority that want you to think so. 
And as our media sucks. They’ll chase any idiotic story.

Stigger32

As an international student you wouldn’t even be an immigrant. You’ll be fine.

jastity

Neither major party is going to reduce immigration to sustainable levels. It's simply too profitable for the elites.

LetMeExplainDis

Are you just going to study, or to seek residency via a student visa? If so, then this is part of the problem.  Students who study and return home are not an issue.

MrsB6

The protest was about mass immigration not immigration itself. Like with most things you'll find a noisy sub sect who are pushing extreme views be that woke or far right. Most people that attended were attending to protest the shear amount of people being allowed to come in which put a strain on housing and services, in particular our hospitals. You'll be fine if you come here, it might just be a little more competitive to get a visa.

matt92wa

I don’t think it’s anti immigration it’s more a reduction in immigrant numbers to try to reduce the pressure on housing stock.

Sam-LAB

We'd love to have you mate 


The dickheads are just super vocal, but they don't speak for everyone

auzy1

The anti-immigration sentiment is much stronger than people here will tell you - basically people on Reddit live in the same suburbs and are in the same social circles - and the anti-immigration feelings among the mainstream population are only going to get stronger.


I would not call it racist. Rather I would say that people do not want to compete with even more people for scarcer resouces, and experience even more rapid cultural change in their lives. So it's a competition/cultural change fatigue thing.



If you are here to be a student you should be fine but if you are planning to study in Australia to get a perm visa then it is a completely different issue.

TheUnderWall

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lima_acapulco

The answer is no. 

Australia is not anti immigration. However, you'd probably find out pretty quickly that Australia is actually pretty damn hard to immigrate to. 

You can study here no biggie. You can work here, if you are lucky, but staying here long term, getting your PR or citizenship is extremely difficult. 

Good luck.

Scarci

Long and short answer: no. Australia like all Western countries, have a infinitesimally small constituency that are fascists i.e. failures to integrate into Australian society who have become subversives. Are they important or significant or posse a threat? Nah, they're pathetic and harmless, they pose no threat to Australia. However...

...the moment they DO become a threat, they'll be rounded up and put in either prison or sent to live on an immigration detention centre awaiting deportation. Lol

Mr-J-Dredd

Hell no, some people just like to scream a lot about.

 Also an MTF I've only been hassled once in a decade

Emergency-Queen

No more than we had a fascist police regime shooting us for going to the supermarket during Covid. Don’t believe the crap you see in the media.

use_your_smarts

These protests took place everywhere over the weekend. There were even huge crowds in Japan.


I'm from an Eastern European refugee family, and we were not treated well for a while (we still get the odd slur from "real Australians"). But when you see the situation in places like England, it's much, much better here.

brite1234

it's ironic that Thomas Sewell is from New Zealand, he is an immigrant himself. 

As for your question, as long as we don't vote for some extreme madman as prime minister, we are going to be okay.   Our last election showed with numbers that these people are just a loud minority.  

I would say, it's important not to underestimate the power of their noise and their will to adopt more disgruntled people.  That March from Sunday should serve as a call out for our government in all senses.

Varnish6588

I would happily swap everyone at that protest with immigrant students if I could

scraglor

Nah you'll be right. There are always a few idiots in any country. But even a lot of the protesters weren't anti immigrant - they were protesting the huge increase in net migration in the last few years.

Don't worry, you'll be safe here. It's one of the most multicultural countries on the planet.

The media loves to drum up a story, but it's nothing really.

The Perth fun run got like 10 times the number of people to it on the same day as the supposed protest.

did-it-my-weigh

It's not the majority. It may look like it when you watch those kinds of videos, but it's not.

ConfusionBitter1011

Hey mate, Aussies are generally cool with immigration, and most of us aren’t racist, including me(First fleet convict stock), our families are multiethnic/indigenous chillaxed types. Don’t let the media’s spin on those ‘anti-immigration’ marches scare you off, they’re portraying a complex situation as simple right wing extremism, but it’s way more layered, and many Aussies feel deeply misunderstood. 

The protests weren’t just about immigration numbers or skill levels (though the sheer volume is straining housing and services). They were sparked by radical elements in the pro-Palestine marches: flag-burning, placards of the Ayatollah, and clear IRGC terrorist influences (which Australian govt proscribed as a terrorist organisation just recently). It’s part of a broader anti-Western culture push that’s become evident. For context, the Iranian mullahs weaponised social justice(allying with Marxists) to topple the Shah in 1979. They smoked the Marxists soon after. The IRGC succeeded in Yemen to spark their 2014 civil war. No one on the left seemed to recognise the danger here, and voices like mine were viewed as racist. Thank fvck our spy agency ASIO confirmed it: foreign actors sowing community division, through antisemitism. The so called ‘anti immigration’ marches were organised before the govt recognised the IRCG/Hamas threat.
Since the May 2025 federal election, the Labor/Green government has revealed how left of centre they are, socialist/globalist, and the media’s followed suit, labelling centrists like me as ‘right-wing extremist’ for voicing concerns. We don’t want to feel like second class citizens in our own country, but wiggling out of that leftist ‘oppressor’ narrative gets us called racist. We can’t even debate the issue. The Nazi pro white fringe isn’t us, they’re the real racists we definitely disavow. It’s deeply troubling we don’t hear the left disavow terrorist orgs, they’re still under their spell I guess.

The government’s ‘anti-immigration = ‘bad’ framing is disappointing and dangerous, as it silences legitimate worries. Come study here; Australia’s still welcoming, and voices like mine are pushing for balance, not hate.

Much_Site5256

Won't be obvious but you'll always feel it

somethingAU

Like others have said, they are a loud minority but this is severely getting downplayed. 

Adelaide Sydney and Melbourne had literal neo Nazis come up to the stages and make speeches. Only in Adelaide did they cut off the mic and get them off the stage. In Sydney and Melbourne they were allowed to speak freely and were CHEERED on by non NSN people. 

They are a loud minority until they aren't. The recent marches were a recruitment drive for them and I'm pretty sure it worked.

Porkr0ll

We are not anti immigration, we are frustrated by recent immigration rates that have been unsustainably high, which is exacerbating a cost of living and housing crisis. 

Many Aussies are silently or privately pissed off and rightly so. Unfortunately the extreme version of that has been vocal in the media, but they are certainly not representative of the main population.

The extreme views seen in the media are largely only reported on because they are extreme and non representative of the normal situation.

cookycoo

Yeah this place is not representative of the general sentiment of the population. People around the world have immigration fatigue and it’s nothing to do with racism people just don’t want it.

Powerful-Campaign798

Yes, it's terrible here. I'd pick a different country if I were you. Ireland's very nice or Canada.

SwoopingPIover

The recent protests march for Australia that went on were not targeted at migrants themselves but wanting a reduction in the insane levels we currently got thats putting  strain it’s putting on housing, services, and infrastructure. Things only went sideways when NSN members turned up in Melbourne most of the crowd booed them, flipped them off, and then walked away. In Hobart, they tried the same thing but the organisers immediately shut it down. That shows the majority were there for genuine concerns, not to back extremists, the majority of Australians and the protestors (at the march) have no problems with migrants coming to country and looking for a better way of life, so you got no problems there, NSN however and white supremacy groups certainly do tho, but again they are a really, really small vocal bunch that cling and make them seem like a large group even online.



I mean ask yourself this if this is normal and should people just accept it.  
2022–23: \~536,000 net overseas arrivals. (ABS)  
Australian Bureau of Statistics  
2023–24: \~446,000 net overseas arrivals. (ABS)  
Australian Bureau of Statistics  
2024–25 (to date / revised forecasts): \~340,000 (revised MYEFO/Treasury/ABS estimates for 2024–25).  
Building has lagged badly.  
Hasn’t kept up only around 150,000–160,000 dwellings were completed in 2023–24. Over the past three years, more than a million people have been added to the population, while housing completions lagged far behind..  
Labor has added only a few hundred thousand homes while well over a million people have been added to the population across the last three years the maths just doesn’t add up. (ABS / industry reporting)  
Official statistics straight from the Department of Home Affairs. Temporary visa holders (excluding visitors) were 2,460,000 in Q2 2025, up 750,000 since Q2 2022 when Labor came to office  
What this means in short/ More people + not enough homes = rental squeeze, higher prices, longer waiting lists for social housing, more pressure on hospitals, schools and transport.  
This is political failure. Labor promised to get migration under control and to build real housing but their policies and slow action have let arrivals run ahead of supply. Meanwhile large parts of the mainstream media act like cheerleaders or official spokespeople  they normalise the numbers, parrot government talking points, and barely hold anyone to account. and like to divide the population with opinion, the result?  (See budget/MYEFO forecasts vs actuals and ABS building numbers)  
If you care about affordable homes and services, demand two things RIGHT NOW realistic migration settings and an emergency, funded push to build hundreds of thousands of genuinely affordable homes.

  
Overall you have nothing to fear about Australia or the future being here as a migrant.

Orgo4needfood

What's most concerning is that you know that there is a housing crisis, you're still wanting to move to Australia, even though you know that your actions will add to our issues. 

Australia was built on strength of community over individual rights. 

I think America's ethos of individual rights would suit you better.

Radiant_Cod8337

That's an extremely small minority of Australians and unfortunately you get that kind of thing everywhere. We all welcome New Australians and I hope you can come and enjoy our amazing country

Comfortable-Shift-17

as a non immigrant, day to day i dont see anti immigrant sentiment, but i obviously arent being targeted.

It is mostly and online and Facebook cookers, but they are growing, more the old and isolated people.

Issues online are bigger than they in person, it took them a whole month to organise anti immigration protests to have a quarter of the numbers a pro palestine protest got with a weeks notice. I want to say there are more aussies against these anti-immigration marchers than there are marchers but that could be my echo chamber. I work customer service and the 31st August march was never talked about around me, kinda like the Aussie public was oblivious to it and was all driven my online people, however i have heard people talk about the pro palestine protests in a positive light.

Mammoth_Use_3263

Come. 

Take a look at the news, globally a loud minority are going anti immigrant, it's almost as though it might be coordinated by some powerful unpleasant people, don't let them control your life.

RedDotLot

Have a look at population % born overseas. We're one of the highest at over 30%, and highest it has ever been. There are some racists, but I reckon a good chunk of the population has immigration fatigue.

We've had 20 years of extremely high immigration, why not slow it down, before it gets excessive.

Delicious-Reveal-862

Honestly, as far as protests go, there weren’t as many people as expected. The pro Palestinian protests have had far far more people than this old unemployed boomers with Nazis rally

PhotographBusy6209

The protest was twisted be media to being racially motivated. It’s not. It was about the immigration numbers being too high for sustainable living. Hospitals have huge waiting times, traffic is getting worse and housing is very competitive. Basically, the government hasn’t put enough infrastructure to support the immigration rates. Immigrants move to Melbourne and Sydney bc that’s where it’s at. Everyone loves the cities and the traffic and wait times are evident to that. There is a reason people move here bc it’s better than their home country.

chancesareimright

Almost all Western countries except Canada, and New Zealand are souring big time on immigrants, and their citizens will vote accordingly in upcoming elections. Just look at Trump's second term, as well as the rise of parties like Reform UK, and AFD in Europe. I know Australia recently reelected their centre left government recently, but I'm sure PM Albanese had to moderate a lot on his positions, especially on immigration in order to be winnable again.

richmigga_1998

Don't come here and be racist or discriminatory against Australians, the idea of the protests was to put a halt to the overwhelming mass migration that the government is allowing. 

It was overshadowed by neo-nazi racists.

If you come here be a good person. That is the main issue - a lot of new immigrants come from vastly different cultures than the Australian culture and are actively trying to deteriorate the Aussie way of life - Don't commit violent crimes, don't commit fraud, don't push your religious beliefs onto others, dont ruin the environment, don't be racist.. get a job and pay your own way.

Aussies are struggling with a cost of living and housing crisis and we're seeing increased crime and hate from minorities of immigrants - these are the real issues.

Australia is a multicultural country, with people from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds. A cultural shift is fine but it's just happening too quickly and for the worse. We are a western nation with western values, we want to keep it that way

Radiationprecipitate

It got a lot of press. A lot of people went to protest the housing shortage and weren't aware the Nazis were behind the whole thing.  It wasn't marketed like that in the general press or ads on facebook. A lot of people at the protest just didn't look into it and tried to distance themselves from the extremists once they got there. There was also anti-nazi protesters and things got ugly. 

Press being press all over the world, they show the worst they can find. Australia is and always has been very multicultural. If you want some encouragement look at the pro-palestine rallies recently, and they continue every week in places. 

You'll be fine, and you'll have the support of the vast majority of Australians while you're here. Deep down we all know that unless we're aboriginal, we're only a few generations from an immigrant.

Quick_Assignment_725

I’m a scared too. My wife is Australian, but I’m British Indian. In the UK, Indians are well integrated into society, especially Hindus. I’m scared that if I were to move there, I would be a target. I don’t sound like an Indian, but I look like one (can’t change that). 

My wife wants to move over before we have kids to be closer to her family. The UK doesn’t really have white supremacists, if it does- they’re not very prominent.

satista

Pleasant-Spinach-663

It's not just Neo Nazis.  A great many ordinary people are troubled by the rate at which our government is allowing migration to happen.  It's a big problem.

To put it in perspective, if the country had built a brand new empty city the size of Brisbane over the last 3.5 years there would be barely enough housing there to accommodate new arrivals over the same period.

In some peoples minds it is hard to separate contempt for the system that allows it to happen from that for the obvious groups of people who take advantage of today's policy.

freshair_junkie

&gt;Earlier, one protester (In Adelaide) held up a placard emblazoned with the face of alleged police killer and fugitive Dezi Freeman, and captioned with the words "Free Man".

Are they seriously now glorifying a man who killed police officers who were doing their duty to the community, who has now sent an entire region basically into lockdown?

I love this country, but sometimes, I don't like some of the people who treat our values like shit.

Edit - they just showed an interview with the placard guy on 7News in Adelaide, coward used the placard to cover his face

Expensive-Horse5538

Have we tried turning society off and back on again

enigmasaurus-

&gt;In Adelaide, a rally was ended after an altercation broke out when a man who identified himself as a member of the National Socialist Network took to the stage to call for an end to immigration.

&gt;Police estimate that 15,000 people took part in today's rally and counter-rally in Adelaide, and said in a statement that the crowds were "generally well-behaved".

&gt;Organisers have told the ABC the National Socialist Network had not been invited to speak at the event and that they attempted to stop the speech but were met with resistance.

&gt;Police who were monitoring the rally stepped in to break up the scuffle as some protesters chanted "let him speak".

&gt;The rally did not resume after that point.

Good to see there was at least some decency from organisers in Adelaide to prevent these idiots from having another platform

The cat is out of the bag.  
  
Reknowned neo-nazi Thomas Sewell claimed that his "men" organised the whole thing.

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas\_Sewell\_(neo-Nazi)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sewell_(neo-Nazi))

Due_Bag9164

My hubby and his coworkers were keeping an eye on the rally in Perth. Hubby reckons it was like 70% old people.

njf85

bob katter marched with the NSN in townsville today,  but being white washed on the media including ABC.  They deleted the photos they had up earlier today of standing between 2 NSN members

ratt_man

It was an opportunistic rally by the neo Nazis in Australia and some people are dumb enough or too cooked to realise what is right in front of them. 

The ‘great replacement’ is a neo Nazi white supremacist conspiracy theory (debunked obviously) took centre stage at many of the ‘anti immigration’ protests, with people cheering on. 

Disgraceful. The problems were all feeling are mostly from terrible, RW neo con policies implemented by decades of LNP governments.

JimmyLizzardATDVM

Someone who went to the Adelaide one.

Why was there a St George Cross there ? What has that got to do with Australia?

lazy-bruce

Very disappointing the ABC could provide only scant detail about these marches: numbers, interviews with organisers, a selection of banners.

I arrived knowing nothing about events, and having watched I know very very little.

Is it THAT hard to estimate the size of a crowd?  Or is it that easy to be a journalist now?

llordlloyd

You guys are going down the same route as the UK 🥲

Late_Bowl_212

Glorifying cop killers and Neo-nazi self proclaimed racists. Great faces of the protests. No matter the intention, when you have these arseholes leading the movement, you won’t be taken seriously.

Hutchoman87

They weren’t anti-immigration rallies. They were organised by neo-Nazis. The keynote speakers were neo-Nazis.

Call a spade a spade. It was a neo-Nazi rally.

TurbulentPhysics7061

Why do all the anti-immigration mob look so foreign?

They should go back to where they came from.

CsabaiTruffles

The more people continue to suffer in this cost of living and housing crisis, the more people to be radicalized. This wont go away &amp; im fully expecting more anti-immigrant sentiment as living standards fall.

willis000555

Bob Katter please don’t hold the Eureka flag up while you scream your racist cooker nonsense :(

601juno

The Labour Movement should organise a ‘Cost of Living Rally’ for a higher: Corporate Tax Rate, Resources Rent Tax, Carbon Price, and for a more progressive income and wealth tax system. 

The reason people are feeling the pressures of cost of living isn’t because of immigration - it’s because of how our national wealth is distributed unfairly.

Immigration is keeping Australia from falling into a recession.

If we cut off immigration we would end up in a recession, with higher unemployment - and those people protesting today would find themselves in a worse position (likely unemployed).

WF-2

Some of the “speakers” especially with the apparent  “open mic” spots towards the end of the speeches were cringe worthy and embarrassing.

My favourite was the woman  obviously mething off her head. Ranting drug fueled lunatic.

What a show with meth head shazza on the mic lol

Other highlights is the bloke that actually said (among other things) if you don’t have a mullet hair style and if you aren’t white and if you don’t “look” like him, you aren’t an Aussie :p

And that other bloke that condones child marriage what’s his name? Wonder how many of his mates at the March are pdf like that one who got caught with csam recently? 

Jesus wept. How many brain cells is going on there. What’s worse is they are grooming angry boys and men to follow their lead using a twisted sense of “nationalism” 
 
Alot of dog whistling and signalling for more recruits, especially saying at the end to follow up and join them.

Pretty obvious this was being used as a recruitment effort for a lot of far right nutters.

The irony and hypocrisy in many aspects is astonishing watching 
These sons and daughters of Immigrants, convicts and colonisers complaining about other immigrants, along side Nazis trying to drum up more recruits. 

Well done for increasing just how  stupid and similar Australia is becoming like America. 🤮

sunset-dreamer

All I saw at the Adelaide one as I drove past was angry old white people who had no individual clouds to shout at and crackheads.

Bmo2021

Bet none of them will come and pick fruit this summer.

bignuts3000

Honestly no surprises at which cities ended up being violent.

For all Melbourne's smugness about being the most 'progressive' in Australia they do have a very large Neo Nazi problem.

If the supposedly most conservative states of Qld and WA's capitals  'anti-immigration" rallies turned out peaceful and Sydney with just as large of a immigrant population as Melbourne also turned out peaceful, you have to wonder why Melbourne's turned out bad.

Anonymou2Anonymous

People seem to be surprised of the unfriendly behavior against immigrants? 

Tell me about it, because I had to endure racial slurs and mistreatment for over a decade…. In Sydney. I still became a citizen and I’m still proud of my Australian passport but the younger generation is just lost to racism. 

So, reading the this is not really shocking. It’s more of a confirmation.

verbalyabusiveshit


Dog people hate cat people.
Cat people hate dog people.
Educated people hate the uneducated.
Uneducated people hate the educated.
The list goes on....

It’s always the same. People turn on each other while the real issue gets ignored.

The problem isn’t cats and dogs, or locals and migrants. The problem is government failure. Housing, health, mental health, infrastructure and skills have been neglected for years, and now everyone feels the pressure.

Rlawya24

Well if we decide Australia is for the Australians then we all better pack our bags. I go back to convict heritage on both sides of the family but they were just compulsory migrants. This entire argument is just there to give entitled white bigots something to whinge about. In the 80”s it was migrants taking “our jobs”, then in the 90s it was migrants taking over our universities, note the housing crisis is apparently their fault (and not the fault of successive governments selling-off, and failing to replace social housing). Wonder what they’ll blame migrants for next?

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