The “great replacement” conspiracy theory pushed yesterday by leading One Nation figure Stuart Bonds — now making national headlines — was a central theme of the same rally last week.
As The Klaxon revealed a week ago, the far-right conspiracy was pushed repeatedly at the Melbourne event on November 1, which was also headlined by One Nation figures.
At that event, official speaker Lachlan Lade praised the White Australia Policy, saying of those who implemented it: “we are standing with them today”.
At the “Australia Marches” rally in Sydney yesterday, Bonds, One Nation’s leading NSW upper-house candidate, said Australians faced demographic replacement unless “mass migration” was curtailed.
NSW Premier Chris Minns today described Bond’s comments as “frankly outrageous and racist”.
It was also condemned by federal multicultural affairs MPs Julian Hill and Anne Aly, who said it pushed white supremacist conspiracy theories and divided Australians.
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Neo-Nazis and the “great replacement theory”, The Klaxon’s expose last week. Source: The Klaxon
Addressing attendees on Sunday, Bonds said the “socialist plan” was to “destroy and bring down and tear down the fabric of your civilisation” before ruling over ruins.
“Make no mistake, we are being demographically replaced inside our own nation,” Bonds said after talking about abortion rates in the developed world.
“If we don’t support Australian mothers having Australian children, we are going to pay for other cultures’ children to be brought up in our lands.”
Bonds was the headline of the Australia Marches rally in Sydney yesterday.
Stuart Bonds (right) with Barnaby Joyce, Mike Newman and Pauline Hanson. Picture: Michael Gorton/AAP
Last week’s Melbourne rally was headlined by One Nation’s Victorian leader Warren Pickering, and by One Nation Victoria upper-house candidate Mark Nicholson.
As previously reported, several speakers at the Melbourne event similarly pushed the “great replacement” theory.
It is a US-originated conspiracy that Western “elites” are conspiring to replace white people with people of non-European descent, particularly Africans and Asians.
Yesterday’s Sydney rally was headlined by One Nation’s leading NSW upper house candidate Stuart Bonds. Source: Australia Marches
Official speaker and far-right podcaster Sam Bamford pushed the conspiracy at the Melbourne rally.
“We will no longer sit idly by and allow this government to use mass immigration to demographically replace Australians in their own country,” he said.
“We do not want to be replaced in our own country, and if they don’t turn all their resources to our birth rate, they are turning their back on the Australian people, our history, heritage, and culture.”
At the rally official speaker Lade likewise pushed the far-right conspiracy theory.
“We are being systematically replaced in our own country,” he said.
“It’s not natural migration. It is an invasion planned in the offices and the halls of Canberra.”
Last week’s Melbourne rally was headlined by One Nation candidates Warren Pickering and Mark Nicholson. Source: Australia Marches
Both Bamford and Lade were also official speakers at yesterday’s event.
The Australia Marches “National Rally Tour” is being funded by an entity called “The Australian Lobby Group” which is run by Scott Challen, 54, a “builder and Aussie patriot” from Queensland.
Lade is registered as a Federal Government lobbyist for The Australian Lobby Group.
As The Klaxon exclusively reported last week, multiple neo-Nazis were present at the Melbourne event.
Guardian Australia today reports at least one neo-Nazi, Joel Davis, was spotted among the “several hundred” attendees at yesterday’s Sydney rally.
One Nation Victoria upper-house candidate Mark Nicholson takes the stage in Melbourne last week. Picture: Anthony Klan
Assistant Multicultural Affairs Minister Julian Hill condemned yesterday’s address by Bonds.
“It’s sadly not surprising a lead One Nation candidate is openly pushing racist, white supremacist conspiracy theories,” he said.
“The ‘great replacement theory’ is a widely discredited far-right, nationalist conspiracy with anti-Semitic roots.
“It’s also mathematically nonsensical.”
Multicultural Affairs Minister Dr Aly said questioning someone’s right to belong was not “debate about immigration”.
“It’s divisive, dangerous and goes against everything we stand for as Australians,” she said.
One Nation’s Victoria leader Warren Pickering led last week’s Melbourne rally. Picture: Anthony Klan
In his speech, Bonds likened “stolen land” debates to “white South Africans” and Americans being told they do not belong in their respective countries.
“We’re expected to believe an immigrant arriving yesterday is as Australian as you and me. I don’t accept that,” he said.
NSW Premier Minns today condemned the comments by Bonds.
“It makes me think – this bloke’s heading the ticket for One Nation; (if they) win the election, what ministry is he going to have?” he said.
“Trade, education, treasury?
“What job will this bloke have in a coalition-One Nation government?”
— With AAP
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