National Front of Australia
The National Front of Australia (NFA) was an Australia nationalist and
History
The NFA was established originally in 1977 as a sister organisation of the British National Front; sister organisations were also formed in New Zealand and South Africa at the same time. It did not become fully operative until 1978.[2]
NFA followed Tyndall's British imperial view and called for a “regenerated British Australia”. Like the sister organisations, it sought to align itself with other right-wing and racist groups. However, its British Australian nationalism and anti-immigrant stance separated it from the more Europeanist/Americanist 'white race' neo-Nazi far-right that was emerging in Australia, many of whose members were themselves immigrants rather than of British origin.
The first party chairman was Rosemary Sisson. Branches were formed in Victoria, with Sisson as branch secretary; in Queensland, with Victor Robb as branch secretary; and in New South Wales with
From June 1978 the party published a magazine called Frontline, in collaboration with the National Front of New Zealand.
Victor Robb was the party's first electoral candidate in 1978. He "campaigned at the time on a platform of making Australia racially pure".
Sisson attended the British National Front's AGM in 1978.
The party ceased in 1984.[8] After the demise of the party Frontline continued to March 1987 in support of a more general non-party "nationalist cause".
Federal parliament
Senate | ||||||
Election year | # of overall votes |
% of overall vote |
# of overall seats won |
# of overall seats |
+/– | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1980 | 1,467 | 0.01 (#12/12) | 0 / 40
|
0 / 76
|
0 |
See also
- British National Front
- New Zealand National Front
- South African National Front
References
- ^ New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies
- ^ What happened when the British National Front tried to set up in Australia thirty years ago?
- ^ New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies
- ^ Jim Saleam The Other Radicalism chapter 4
- ^ "Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council". Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2010.
- ^ Spearhead magazine (February 1979) p17
- ^ Spearhead magazine(September 1980) p17
- ^ Jim Saleam The Other Radicalism chapter 4