‘Disgusting’ white power pamphlets calling for ‘white Australia’ spark Gold Coast outrage
Gold Coast residents have expressed disgust after white supremacist flyers invoking the Anzacs were distributed through their letterboxes over the weekend.
Carrara residents have been left “disgusted” after white power flyers were put through their letter box on the weekend.
The pamphlets, which invoke the Anzacs, claim Australia was “built as the white working man’s paradise” and call for white people to “organise and fight as one”.
“We are people descended from Europeans who made this continent our home,” it reads.
“Australia was built as the white working man’s paradise; and we want to return to this legacy – a legacy the Anzacs fought for. White Australia lives in us.
“We aren’t nostalgists stuck in the past, we are working towards a great future, a new Australian dream is our vision.
“We have the opportunity to make our continent great again, only white Australia has the strength and clarity to do this.”
A resident who received the pamphlet said they were horrified.
“I was shocked when we got it in the mail,” they said.
“It’s just disgusting and totally wrong.”
The letterboxing has been slammed by state MP Meghan Scanlon who condemned those behind it.
“This kind of white-supremacist garbage has no place in modern Australia and the people who push it should crawl back under the rock they came from,” she said.
“If you love this country, you help build it, you don’t push leaflets that belong in the darkest chapters of history.
“A ‘white Australia’ doesn’t make sense when the first chapter of this country, the longest one, is First Nations.”
A Queensland Police Service (QPS) spokesman confirmed it had not received any reports of these flyers in the Carrara area.
“Anyone with any information that may assist enquiries, or reports of similar instances, is urged to notify police via Policelink or Crime Stoppers,” he said.
“The QPS takes all reports of vilification offences and hate crimes against cultural and religious communities with the utmost seriousness.
“Everyone in Queensland has a right to feel safe, to not feel vilified or victimised.”
It comes 15 years after the Gold Coast made national headlines for all the wrong reasons when a large gathering of neo-Nazis was held in 2010 at a highly publicised white supremacist music festival.
The Hammered music festival was organised by white pride groups Crew 38 and Blood & Honour and was held in a secret location which was understood to have been in Carrara.
The latter group, an internationally reviled race-hate group, had been banned in Germany more than a decade earlier for its views.
The festival was billed as a week of “sun, surf and radicalist music”.
Community leaders in the lead up to the event expressed their disgust that such a festival would be held on the Gold Coast.
Then-Surfers Paradise RSL president Arch McDonald said “most veterans who fought for Australia’s freedom would be disappointed the event was being conducted so close to Anzac Day”.
‘‘They would be disappointed at any time but especially around the time people are conducting memorial services to commemorate their sacrifices … to see this type of activity is disgraceful,’’ he said in 2010.
‘‘Veterans would be offended by this conduct, where people are selling intolerance.”
Then-Gold Coast RSL president Peter Franklin said there was a question over whether white supremacists should be tolerated anywhere.
‘‘There are a lot of people with bad memories of the way they were treated by the Nazis, so why do we tolerate it,’’ he said at the time.
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