National Action | |
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Founders |
Jim Saleam David Greason |
Leader | Jim Saleam |
Foundation | 1982 |
Dissolved | 1991 |
Country | Australia |
Headquarters | Tempe, New South Wales |
Newspaper | Advance (1983–1989) [2] |
Ideology |
Australian nationalism
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[4] White nationalism [5] Anti-multiculturalism Anti-immigration [6] |
Political position | Right-wing [7] [8] to far-right [5] |
Size | ~500 (1989) [9] |
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National Action was a militant Australian white nationalist group founded in 1982 by Jim Saleam, a far-right activist, and David Greason. [10] [11] Saleam had been a member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia as a teenager during the 1970s. [12]
Jim Saleam's criminal convictions include property offenses and fraud in 1984 and being an accessory before the fact in regard to organising a shotgun attack in 1989 on African National Congress representative Eddie Funde. [5] Saleam served jail terms for both crimes. [11] He pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming that he was set up by police. [5] [11]
The group was disbanded following the murder of a member, Wayne "Bovver" Smith, in the group's headquarters at Tempe. [11] Saleam later became the New South Wales chairman of the Australia First Party, [11] and stood as its endorsed candidate several times.
The National Action co-founder David Greason's book, I was a Teenage Fascist, tells of Greason's own time within the Australian fascist movement and the events behind the founding of National Action. [13]
National Action, a right-wing organization that promoted, amongst other things, a return to a White Australia policy, and was particularly against immigration from Asia.