User:Australiannationalaction

Australian National Action was founded at the University of Sydney in 1982 by James Saleam, a Lebanese & two friends one Greek & the other an Italian. This was ANA's inauspicious beginning. Its later claim to be 'Australia's premier fighting Rightist organisation' has been in dispute ever since. The obvious contradiction between a whites-only outfit yet formed by ethnic 'New Australians' was clear to all but its founders.

So what motivated them? Some have since suggested it was all a colossal hoax, a type of 'honey trap' to which naive whites were lured only to be then 'outed' in public or registered by ASIO & Leftist/anti-racist groups. A reason for this assertion comes from the past of ANA Founder James Saleam who was logged as an associate of both Far Right & Far Left groups prior to his entering ANA ranks.

In 2003 Saleam was expelled by ANA after an alleged attempt to topple then Chair Michael Brander. His reaction was to form a rival group, Australia First Party. AFP had been the registered name of lone Western Australian ALP MP, Graeme Campbell. A more credible alternative to Pauline Hanson, Campbell had, like her, lost his Federal seat in the 2001 election. The AFP brand was thereafter open for purchase. Saleam bought it and began recruiting. His early recruits to AFP, Mark II, were mainly from ANA. All were assured 'ANA no longer exists'.

ANA does not adhere to AFP's electoralist line. ANA still exists.