National Action (Australia)

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National Action
Founders Jim Saleam
David Greason
Leader Jim Saleam
Foundation1982
Dissolved1991
CountryAustralia
Headquarters Tempe, New South Wales
NewspaperAdvance(1983–1989) [2]
Ideology Australian nationalism [3] [4]
White nationalism [5]
Anti-multiculturalism
Anti-immigration [6]
Political position Right-wing [7] [8] to far-right [5]
Size~500 (1989) [9]

National Action was a militant Australian white nationalist group founded in 1982 by Jim Saleam, a far-right activist, and David Greason. [10] [11] Saleam had been a member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia as a teenager during the 1970s. [12]

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Jim Saleam's criminal convictions include property offenses and fraud in 1984 and being an accessory before the fact in regard to organising a shotgun attack in 1989 on African National Congress representative Eddie Funde. [5] Saleam served jail terms for both crimes. [11] He pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming that he was set up by police. [5] [11]

The group was disbanded following the murder of a member, Wayne "Bovver" Smith, in the group's headquarters at Tempe. [11] Saleam later became the New South Wales chairman of the Australia First Party, [11] and stood as its endorsed candidate several times.

The National Action co-founder David Greason's book, I was a Teenage Fascist, tells of Greason's own time within the Australian fascist movement and the events behind the founding of National Action. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Eureka: a short war that's long on history". The Age . Nine Entertainment. 3 November 2004. Retrieved 17 May 2024.
  2. ↑ Saleam 1999, p. 474.
  3. ↑ Whitford 2013, p. 40-41.
  4. ↑ "Fitzgerald Immigration Enquiry A Fraud". White Australia News. No. 12. National Action. 1988. p. 2.
  5. 1 2 3 4 West, Andrew (29 February 2004). "White separatist takes on Marrickville". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  6. ↑ Whitford 2013, p. 42.
  7. ↑ Whitford 2013, p. 43.
  8. ↑ "Item HT 8520". Museums Victoria Collections. Melbourne: Museums Victoria . Retrieved 17 May 2024. National Action, a right-wing organization that promoted, amongst other things, a return to a White Australia policy, and was particularly against immigration from Asia.
  9. ↑ Saleam 1999, p. 190.
  10. ↑ Greason 1994, p. 276.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 West, Andrew (29 February 2004). "No Apology For White Australia Policy". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  12. ↑ Greason 1994, p. 283-284.
  13. ↑ Greason 1994, p. 5.

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