The Australian National University has condemned posters and stickers plastered to one of its entry signs belonging to a neo-Nazi group advocating for a white Australia.
The university confirmed the material had been removed and issued a statement saying racism is abhorrent and will not be tolerated.
“Our university is a place where we come together to live and learn, work and socialise as a community. To anyone who feels that ANU is less safe and less welcoming today, I want to reassure you that this is still your campus and your home,” Professor Anderson wrote in an email to students.
A spokesman for the university said any member of its community found to be behaving in such an inappropriate way would face consequences.
“If anyone on our campus sees these stickers, we urge them to tell ANU security who will remove them,” the spokesman said.
The stickers and posters belonging to the National Socialist Network were discovered on Friday on the university’s Acton campus.
Posters and stickers featured the phrase “Australia for the White Man”, taking an old masthead motto of long-running and now-closed magazine The Bulletin.
The National Socialist Network has more than 2000 members on an encrypted messaging platform and targets young, white men to join the group.
Read the article by Jasper Lindell in The Canberra Times.