National Action (Australia)
National Action was a militant Australian white supremacist group founded in 1982 by Jim Saleam, a neo-Nazi activist, and convicted criminal,[1] and former neo-Nazi David Greason. Saleam had been a member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia as a teenager during the 1970s.[2]
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| Leader | Jim Saleam |
| Founder | Jim Saleam and David Greason |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Dissolved | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Tempe, NSW |
| Ideology | Australian nationalism (Ultranationalism) Ethnic nationalism Anti-multiculturalism Anti-immigration Fascism |
| Political position | Far-right |
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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.[1][3] Saleam served jail terms for both crimes.[1] He pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming that he was set up by police.[3]
The group was disbanded following the murder of a member, Wayne "Bovver" Smith, in the group's headquarters at Tempe.[1] Saleam became NSW chairman of Australia First Party,[1] 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 neo-Nazi movement and the events behind the founding of National Action.[2]
See also
References
- West, Andrew (29 February 2004). "No Apology For White Australia Policy". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
- Greason, David (1994), I was a teenage fascist, pp.283,284,289, McPhee Gribble
- West, Andrew (29 February 2004). "White separatist takes on Marrickville". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 February 2013.