A neo-Nazi presence in Brisbane has been leaving disturbing – albeit nonsensical – promotional material in letterboxes around leafy inner suburbs calling on residents to join up.
The suite of flyers, some seen by Brisbane Times, have been distributed in Auchenflower and Paddington over several days.
Bearing the names of established neo-Nazi groups, the leaflets contain conspiracist and hateful messages that are anti-Jewish and anti-immigrant.
One attempts to warn white Australians about being sterilised and then “living in a box eating bugs”. It follows similar drops at the Gold Coast last year.
While the flyers, distributed in left-leaning Queensland electorates, could be little more than the work of one person attempting to whip up outrage or present a narrative of a burgeoning movement, they are being taken seriously by Dr Dvir Abramovich of the Anti-Defamation Commission.
He said the messages were an “assault on the core values of our community” and called for a response from police and the state government.
“What was unthinkable five years ago is happening on our doorstep as the descendants of Hitler, unapologetic and emboldened neo-Nazis who dream of an Aryan Australia without Jews, Muslims, Asians, Indigenous Australians and members of the LGBTIQ community, are openly threatening and intimidating local residents,” he said.
Read the article by Zach Hope in the Brisbane Times.