Australia First Party - Activities

Activities

  • On 8 October 2005, up to fifteen AFP members (including Saleam) rallied outside Kirribilli House to protest against the suspension of Professor Andrew Fraser of Macquarie University.
  • On 11 December 2005, the Sydney AFP branch, along with the PYL, distributed pamphlets, stickers and allegedly alcohol at the Sydney beachside suburb of Cronulla where an estimated 5000 people had gathered to protest against harassment by Lebanese gangs. SBS World News on 13 December 2005 reported that Saleam had organised around 150 members and sympathisers to attend the rally.
  • Several AFP members returned to Cronulla the following month during the Australia Day festivities to further their campaign.
  • Australia First supporters handed out leafets at the rally in Melbourne on 28 June 2006, protesting against the Howard Government's industrial relations laws. The leaflets focused almost entirely on the issue of "foreign workers" being brought into Australia and "undermining the wages of Australian workers". The leaflet gave post office box addresses in Croydon and Shepparton as contact points, and also gave two party websites
  • On 7 October 2006, over a dozen members of the Sutherland Shire branch of the AFP rallied outside the office of Cook MP Bruce Baird to highlight their opposition to his liberal views on refugee and asylum seeker policy. The AFP described the rally as the start of a campaign to "reclaim Australia and defend people's rights".
  • In January 2007 Australia First supporters distributed 2500 leaflets in Tamworth, New South Wales, that claimed refugees spread crime and disease. This was in response to the council's decision to approve a refugee program that would resettle up to five Sudanese families in the area. The council had initially rejected the program.
  • In 2010, The Australia First Party joined in the campaign against the importation of beef from countries infected or has previously been infected with the Mad Cow Disease. Australia First Joins In United Campaign Against Foreign Beef Imports
  • In November 2010, Australia First was accused of letter boxing thousands of racist leaflets that claimed that "Sub-Saharan African males on the most part possess low IQs and high testosterone levels/sex drives, characteristics which make them potential weapons of mass destruction to everyday Australians going about their daily lives". The leaflets were distributed in Campbelltown near Sydney. The Party Chairman, Doctor Saleam, claimed that "We have never written anything like that and whoever has written this has a very odd sense of humour. There is no comment that can be possibly made to this argument". Australia First Denies Racist Mailbox Flyers
  • Australia First was accused of trying to start a riot on Australia Day 2011. The NSW Police Force told the Daily Telegraph that they were keeping an eye on the Party and on other groups to make sure that they didn't cause any problems.
  • Thousands of leaflets were distributed in Aratula, Boonah and Warwick on Australia Day 2011. They called for the scrapping of the racial and discrimination acts. The leaflets also attacked multiculturalism and multiracialism.

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