Australians Against Further Immigration
Australians Against Further Immigration | |
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| Founder | Dr. Rodney Spencer Robyn Spencer |
| Founded | 1989 |
| Dissolved | 2008 |
Anti-immigration | |
| Political position | Far-right |
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| Far-right politics in Australia |
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Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI) was an Australian
eco-nationalist",[1] was opposed to mass immigration and aimed for zero net migration.[2] The party was founded in 1989, registered in 1990, and ceased to exist in 2008.[3]
AAFI stood candidates at both state and federal level, but never won a seat. The party said it was a mainstream organisation, and sought to distance itself from extremist organisations such as the
Citizens Electoral Council.[3] In 1994, Franca Arena, then a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, denounced the party in the New South Wales
parliament.
In
Sydney) in 1994, Labor MP Graeme Campbell urged electors to vote for Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI).[4]
The party was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission in December 2005, as lacking the minimum 500 members required to be registered as a political party.[5] It contested the 2007 New South Wales state election, but was also deregistered at the state level not long after.[6]
Federal parliament
| House of Representatives | ||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
+/โ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 3,587 | 0.03(#13/15) | 0 / 150
|
 0
|
| 1996 | 73,023 | 0.67(#6/18) | 0 / 150
|
0
|
| 2001 | 12,033 | 0.10 (#11/20) | 0 / 150
|
 0
|
| Senate | ||||||
| Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of overall seats |
+/โ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 19,439 | 0.20(#12/17) | 0 / 40
|
0 / 76
|
0
| |
| 1993 | 46,464 | 0.44(#9/19) | 0 / 40
|
0 / 76
|
0
| |
| 1996 | 137,604 | 1.26(#6/22) | 0 / 40
|
0 / 76
|
0
| |
| 2001 | 21,012 | 0.18(#18/29) | 0 / 40
|
0 / 76
|
0
| |
| 2004 | 11,508 | 0.10 (#23/30) | 0 / 40
|
0 / 76
|
0
| |
See also
References
- ^ "Anti-immigrants with a green tinge". The Sydney Morning Herald. 21 March 2003. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ "Document - 'Manifesto', Australians Against Further Immigration, circa 1990". Museums Victoria Collections.
- ^ a b Lyle Allan (1994), 'Immigration and the Werriwa By-Election,' in People and Place, Vol.2, No.1, p.55
- ISBN 978-0-521-53140-5.
- ^ "Media Release 2006: Deregistration of Australians Against Further Immigration". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
- ^ fightdemback.org Archived April 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine