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Frank Kemp Salter is an Australian academic, political adviser and co-founder, with neo-Nazi, Jim Saleam, of the extreme-right, fascist youth group Australian National Alliance (ANA). He is best known for his connections to the Australian neo-fascist and neo-Nazi movements and his anti-immigrant, anti-multiculturalism views. [1] He has been a researcher with the Max Planck Society, Andechs, Germany, since 1991, [2] and is currently a political adviser to Fraser Anning, senator for Queensland, Australia.

Australia Country in Oceania

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Jim Saleam Australian far-right activist

James ("Jim") Saleam is an Australian far-right extremist and the current chairman of the Australia First Party. Saleam is a convicted criminal and neo-Nazi. In 1975 photographs were published of Saleam wearing a swastika armband and associating with neo-Nazi skinheads. Saleam has been described as a white nationalist, who has been a strong advocate of barring further immigration to preserve a "predominantly white nation resistant to... watering-down of its culture".

Max Planck Society association of German research institutes

The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and renamed the Max Planck Society in 1948 in honor of its former president, theoretical physicist Max Planck. The society is funded by the federal and state governments of Germany.

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Early life and education

Salter was born on 31 August 1953 in Sydney, Australia.

Salter attended the University of Sydney (1979 - 1982), where he majored in Government and Public Administration. [1] After his undergraduate education at the University of Sydney he earned a Masters degree and PhD from Griffith University in Queensland (1984-1990).

University of Sydney university in Sydney, Australia

The University of Sydney is an Australian public research university in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it was Australia's first university and is regarded as one of the world's leading universities. The university is colloquially known as one of Australia's sandstone universities. Its campus is ranked in the top 10 of the world's most beautiful universities by the British Daily Telegraph and The Huffington Post, spreading across the inner-city suburbs of Camperdown and Darlington. The university comprises 9 faculties and university schools, through which it offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees.

Griffith University university in Queensland, Australia

Griffith University is a public research university in South East Queensland on the east coast of Australia. Formally founded in 1971, Griffith opened its doors in 1975, introducing Australia's first degrees in environmental science and Asian studies.

Extreme-right politics

During his time as an undergraduate student Salter became active in extreme-right politics. During his time at the University of Sydney he co-founded the fascist youth group Australian National Alliance (ANA) along with neo-Nazi, Jim Saleam. the groups fascist newspaper, Audacity, continues to be published by the Australia First Party, currently run by Saleam. [1]

The Australia First Party (NSW) Incorporated is an Australian far-right political party founded in 1996 by Graeme Campbell and currently led by Jim Saleam. The policies of Australia First have been described as nationalistic, anti-multicultural and economic protectionist. The party's logo includes the Southern Cross of the Eureka Flag.

Salter stood at the 1979 Grayndler by-election for the ANA, which distributed anti-immigrant leaflets and posters that claimed Australia was being “flooded” by refugees. [1] Salter received 1.64% of the vote. [3]

A by-election was held for the Australian House of Representatives seat of Grayndler on 23 June 1979. It was triggered by the death of Labor Party MP Frank Stewart.

Salter’s academic work has focused on discrediting multiculturalism through “modern biosocial science.” He has advocated philosophy of eugenics, which underpinned Nazism, arguing that racism is genetically ingrained, as opposed to socially constructed. [1]

One Nation and Fraser Anning

Salter has been a political adviser to Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON) and is currently an adviser to Fraser Anning and now the Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party. [1] In 2015, while working for PHON, Slater published an article which accused former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, of the “cultural genocide of Anglo Australia”.

Pauline Hansons One Nation Political party in Australia

Pauline Hanson's One Nation is a nationalist, right-wing populist party in Australia. One Nation was founded in 1997, by member of parliament Pauline Hanson and her advisors David Ettridge and David Oldfield after Hanson was disendorsed as a federal candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia. The disendorsement came before the 1996 federal election because of comments she made about Indigenous Australians. Hanson sat as an independent for one year before forming Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

Fraser Anning Australian politician

Fraser Anning is an Australian politician who has been a senator for Queensland since 10 November 2017. Anning has sat in the Senate mostly as an independent, though in April 2019 he registered Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party with the Australian Electoral Commission. He was elected to the Senate after a special recount was triggered by the removal of One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts, who was found ineligible to be chosen as a senator due to his status as a dual citizen. Anning chose not to join One Nation in the Senate, sitting as an independent until June 2018, when he joined Katter's Australian Party (KAP) as its first senator, before being expelled from KAP in October 2018 for his views on race and immigration.

Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party, abbreviated as the Conservative Nationals, is a far-right political party in Australia. Founded by former One Nation and KAP Queensland senator Fraser Anning in April 2019, it intends to contest the 2019 federal election.

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  2. https://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Interests-Ethnicity-Humanity-Migration/dp/1412805961
  3. "By-Elections 1977-1980". Psephos.