Alex Antic (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The March for Australia was an overwhelmingly peaceful event held across Australian capital cities last weekend, and 99.9 per cent of attendees were there for the right reasons, expressing their frustration over the terrible state of the country. The participants were everyday Aussies from all backgrounds, united with a concern for the terrible state of the country and Australia's future. Enter the appalling National Socialist Network, or the NSN; they are labelled 'far right' by the media but they use the term 'socialist' in their name, which always strikes me as odd! The NSN are a strange group—not face-tattooed, overweight men, like we've come to expect from these types, but oddly clean-cut, preppy-looking ones. Someone said to me the other day, 'It seems like they're straight out of central casting.'

For the last few years these men have been turning up to similar events now and then—mostly masked, sometimes not, but certainly right on cue. Why don't we know more about these people, and how come a group with so few numbers gets so much media attention? I think that's weird. And how did the leader of the group just happen to be in the area as the Premier of Victoria conducted a press conference with multiple cameras around? Must just be an incredible coincidence! Their stunts seem almost like pantomime; one would say 'cartoon-like', if the subject matter wasn't so appalling. It's very odd, and none of it seems to make sense.

One thing is for sure: these people don't speak for the views and concerns of everyday Aussies. That said, there is no doubt how useful they've been for the government, the media and the establishment, who are hell-bent on trying to subdue growing dissent in mainstream Australia about a country in decline. I think that's odd.