Extremists move from beach to ballot box - The Nation - Breaking News 24/7

THE ultra-nationalist Australia First movement is to re-register as a political party in the first step of a national campaign to establish a new politics of the extreme right. Just weeks after its Australia First followers mobilised protestors at the Cronulla race riots in Sydney, the group has written to supporters seeking the 500 membership forms necessary to register with the Australian Electoral Commission. It then plans to target federal and local council elections in what party strategy documents describe as "an explosive campaign" to mark its rebirth after being de-registered in 2004 for failing to put forward a federal election candidate in four years. Jim Saleam, the party's NSW secretary, said Australia First candidates would campaign on a platform of keeping the country predominantly white. "What's being done in Australia now is a situation where the European identity is being deprecated further, to the point where Europeans will disappear next century," he said. "Under certain circumstances, that would be called a genocide, but it's not, it's called progress."