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| First: the White Aryan Resistance. Founded in Melbourne from Skinhead groups in 1991.
It ceased operations in 1993, being the only neo-nazi group known to ‘denazify’.
It then became ‘White Australian Resistance’ until petering out about 1997.
In its later non-nazi period, its publications were Nationalist and well thought out.
For some time in Melbourne (1991-4), there was an active neo-nazi scene,
encompassing several grouplets which operated in a 200 strong Skinhead sub-culture.
As ‘WAR’ moved out of neo-nazism, others took up the ground.
The atmosphere of alcohol consumption did not encourage real political formation and by 1995,
the Skinhead sub-culture began to fade away. It is now all-but dead.
Second: the Australian National Socialist Movement (ANSM). It came on the scene in Brisbane in 1993. It was chiefly an ex-Skinhead group, led by Gary Robson, an English migrant who favoured the Union Jack over the Eureka Flag as the expression of Australian Identity. It no longer exists, possibly breaking up in 1999. Robson made various threats of violence against ANA Chairman Michael Brander, and other members of that party. Links may have existed with C18. The ANSM appeared at One Nation Party rallies in 1998, much to media-Left delight.
Third: Southern Cross Hammer Skinheads. The Melbourne group is connected to the international band, ‘Fortress’. The group is essentially non-political and does harbour some non-neo-nazi opinion. It still functions in Sydney and Melbourne.
Fourth: Blood And Honour. A Skinhead group connected to a British group of the same name. Seems to have vanished off the scene after a shadowy presence throughout the 1990’s in most capital cities.
Fifth: the Aryan Guard. Criminal garbage from around Melbourne. A mid-1990’s ‘creation’, now thankfully dispersed. Some were imprisoned for assorted low-life offences. |
| Sixth: ANM residue around ‘Crazy Chris’ Bartle in Perth. A few members and given to provocation. Bartle had been imprisoned in connection with the ANM violence campaign.
Seven: the National Socialist Party of Australia. Formed in Sydney in 1997, it went for about two years as a new Coleman/Palmer lash-up with some followers in Melbourne and Brisbane. The Brisbane group was small enough to live in a house in Moorooka. Each ‘resident’ had a code name: Donitz, Striker (sic), Himmler and Hess. The NSPA tried to look as if it was a ‘serious’ revival of the ‘old’ 1960’s/1970’s party, published a computer-typeset bulletin (four issues) and a few leaflets. As we now know, Coleman and Palmer severed relations during the KKK furore of 1999. This ‘NSPA’ threatened violence against school youth who were supporters of National Action. Contact was made with the British National Socialist Movement, the so-called political wing of the Special Branch controlled Combat 18.
Eight: Church Of The Creator. Set up in 1990, it festered along during the 1990’s. This grouplet was affiliated to an American group of the same name. It supposedly espoused a new ‘racial religion’ for whites. Its imported papers generally were ‘racist’ tirades about "mud races", "subhuman niggers" and so forth. Patrick O’Sullivan (see below) has claimed to speak on its behalf. A couple of young people in Rockhampton became members and generated some publicity in 2001.
Nine: KKK. Since 1999, some neo-nazi activity has been based around the Klan label. Two or three KKK ‘groups’ may exist with Coleman and Palmer the ostensible leading lights. Attempts by Sydney Morning Herald journalist, Greg Roberts, to allege that Klan activity is widespread in rural Australia, were lies, and no connection between these supposed Klan groups and the nazis can be demonstrated.
Ten: White Power. This was the name of an Adelaide drug gang which operated in 1995-6. The group targeted Australian National Action generally, and its Chairman Michael Brander in particular, for harassment. The group dealt in weapons and the Adelaide media was happy enough to confuse its members with ANA activists whenever possible (especially after an arrest on drugs or weapons charges). The group died out but efforts were made to revamp it. The group’s leader believed that ANA was a ‘threat’ to youth who might otherwise turn on to swastikas and heroin. ASIO had an interest in its rampage against ANA, obviously hoping it could do the job. It failed!
Eleven: Aryan Knights. This group of young Brisbane Skinheads was apparently quite sincere in their beliefs. The group dissolved early in 2000 after trouble with the NSPA and ANSM groups. |
