National Action (Australia)

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National Action
Leader Jim Saleam
Founders Jim Saleam
David Greason
Founded1982
Dissolved1991
Headquarters Tempe, New South Wales
Ideology Australian nationalism
White nationalism [1]
Anti-multiculturalism
Anti-immigration
Political position Far-right [1]
Eureka flag
Eureka Flag.svg

National Action was a militant Australian white nationalist group founded in 1982 by Jim Saleam, a far-right activist and convicted criminal, [2] and David Greason. Saleam had been a member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia as a teenager during the 1970s. [3]

Jim Saleam's criminal convictions include property offenses and fraud in 1984 and being an accessory before the fact in regard to organising a shotgun attack in 1989 on African National Congress representative Eddie Funde. [1] Saleam served jail terms for both crimes. [2] He pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming that he was set up by police. [1] [2]

The group was disbanded following the murder of a member, Wayne "Bovver" Smith, in the group's headquarters at Tempe. [2] Saleam later became the New South Wales chairman of the Australia First Party, [2] and stood as its endorsed candidate several times.

The National Action co-founder David Greason's book, I was a Teenage Fascist, tells of Greason's own time within the Australian fascist movement and the events behind the founding of National Action. [3]

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