Australia First Movement

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Australia First Movement
AbbreviationAFM
FormationOctober 1941; 82 years ago (October 1941)
Dissolved1940s
TypePolitical organisation
Legal statusDefunct
HeadquartersSydney, New South Wales
Region served
Australia
Official language
English
Main organ
 • The Publicist
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The Australia First Movement was a

Rhodes scholar Percy Stephensen and Adela Pankhurst. It has been alleged that writer Miles Franklin was also involved in the AFM[who?] as she attended three AFM public meetings in December 1941, and had long time literary associations and friendships with Stephenson, Herbert and Dark, however historian Jill Roe has documented Franklin's clear opposition to the political views of the AFM in her 2008 biography of Stella Miles Franklin.</ref> which was inspired by the activities of retired businessman, William John Miles
, who had campaigned during the 1930s under the "Australia First" slogan.

Between 1936 and 1942, Miles published 16 volumes of a newsletter titled The Publicist,[2] to which he contributed.[3] He was a leading member of the Rationalist Association, and used The Publicist as his mouthpiece.[4] Before 1939, it described itself as being "for national socialism" and "for Aryanism; against semitism".[5] In January 1942, the ailing Miles transferred editorship of The Publicist to his co-author Stephensen, and had no involvement in the Australia First Movement, dying later that year.

The Australia First Movement has been characterised as

Communists.[7][1]

In March 1942, four members of the Australia First Movement in Perth, and sixteen in Sydney, were arrested, based on the suspicion that they would provide help to Japanese invaders.

Second World War, Paul Hasluck criticised those internments as the "grossest infringement of individual liberty made during the war".[1][8]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Munro, Craig (1990). "Stephensen, Percy Reginald (1901–1965)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Australia First Movement – Fact sheet 28". Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  3. ^ Muirden, p.106
  4. ISSN 1833-7538
    . Retrieved 4 April 2020.
  5. ^ Muirden, p.101
  6. ^ a b "Australia First Movement". Trove. 20 June 1944. Retrieved 9 February 2015.
  7. ^ a b Hogan, Susan (1990). "Pankhurst, Adela Constantia (1885–1961)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  8. ISBN 9781743319666
    .

Further reading

  1. Barbara Winter (January 2005). The Australia First Movement. Interactive Publications.
    ISBN 978-1-876819-91-0
    .
  2. Bruce Muirden (1968). The Puzzled Patriots: The Story of the Australia First Movement. Melbourne University Press.
    ISBN 9780522839074
    .
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