Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the reactions to last weekend's Neo-Nazi demonstration outside NSW Parliament

There's concern and outrage in Australia after a group of Neo-Nazis held a demonstration outside NSW Parliament.

NSW police estimate about 60 black-clad men stood in formation outside the building's Macquarie Street gates, displaying banners and chanting antisemitic slogans.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says the group is trying to find a way into Parliament, prompting concern.

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Murray Old's Ossie correspondent with us Alo maz Very good afternoon, Heather,
do you guys mark this day? Is this a big
daiy throw parties, put on hats, pops and balloons. Well,
it's a big day for two reasons, particularly big today
politically because of course, it was on this day fifty
years ago that Gough Whitlam was sacked. Anthony Albanezi his

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whole life, he's had GoF Whitlam as his political hero.
He was twelve years old when Gough was dismissed by
the Governor General of the day. Politically, there was an impasse.
Gough Whitlam got in in nineteen seventy two with this huge,
massive wave of support and he flamed out in three years.
People got sick and tired of the kind of instability

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that labor was perceived to generate. Malcolm Fraser very effective
as an opposition leader, and he persuaded the Governor General
of the day, Sir John Kerr, that really he was
blocking supply and he said this cannot go on, and
the Governor General moved to sack Gough. The other reason,
of course, today is Remembrance Day and the huge turnouts
all around the country. For you know, what is a

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very significant and solemn day on the Australian calendar falls
eff and New Zealand. I'm sure, what do you reckon
every time you were reminded of what happened during the
goff Woodland thing. Does it kind of strengthen the case
for republicanism in Australia. I wouldn't have thought so. You know,
it's almost like Labour's kryptonite, to be fair. I mean,

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if you mentioned, if you mentioned the R word around Alberaneza,
he'll go and run and hide in the cupboard. He
doesn't want any he doesn't want anything to disrupt what
he's looking at now. He's looking at another after this term,
his second term, he's looking at two more. That's the
scale of the task for the opposition that is just
riven with internal hatreds and fighting. It's horrible. Now what

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is going going on with the neo Nazis. I mean
they cannot be serious about wanting to form a political party,
are they. These guys are freaks, They oxygen thieves as
far as I'm concerned. I mean one of the guys
down to Victoria, the goose down there, you know, I
hate immigration. With his little Adolf Hitler mustache. The moron
came from New Zealand, but I hate immigration. Hello idiot. Anyway,

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up in New South Wales, these people, I think with
the collective IQ of about sort of room temperature. They
staged a big rally outside Parliament House on the weekend.
The only reason anyone knew was because TV cameras turned up.
There were sixty of them, all dressed in black with
an anti Jewish sign and when journo's quized them, there

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was some guy who apparently is a member or he's
one of the leaders of the Nazi Hitler Youth and
New South Wales and he says, well, here's the thing.
We've looked at the electoral map in Australia and the
electoral rules, and New South Wales looks to be the
state where we're most likely to be able to form
a political party and contest elections. Now that's very very

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much highly unlikely. But you only need seven hundred and
fifty members to form a legitimate political party in New
South Wales only five hundred down in Victoria, by the way,
and that of course attracts all sorts of benefits. You
get you know, you know, status at elections and whatnot.
So the new South Wales government going over time trying
to stop this. And of course these neo Nazis have

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used a very famous and very patriotic Australian song by
Ganga Jan. You may know it Sounds then, also known
as This is Australia, a big hit back in eighty five.
But the man who wrote it forty years later, he's
absolutely outraged that these neo Nazis have taken it as
their theme and he's got lawyers chasing these blokes and

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trying to say forget it. Come on interesting, Mars. Thank
you very much for keep an eye on that. Murray
Old's Australia correspondent. For more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive,
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