Two young patriotic activists have altered a number of far-left “Aussie” posters in Brisbane, in a stunt they said was designed to push back at multiculturalism through humour.
The two men, who go by Ausmaxx and Sir Doug on their popular social media channels, filmed themselves in South Bank on Friday night pasting the words “Chinese”, “Indian”, and “not” over the posters.
The original posters, created by far-left artist Peter Drew, include the word “Aussie” under images of non-White immigrants from the early 1900s under the White Australia Policy.
Mr Drew launched the series in 2016 in response to anti-immigration sentiment, has claimed that Australia was “ethnically diverse” at the time even though it was 97% White, and earlier this year boasted about never being prosecuted despite deliberately breaking the law by putting up the posters.
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Ausmaxx shared a video on Instagram on Saturday of the pair sticking the word “Indian” onto a poster of a turbaned Sikh man, and captioned it “we fixed it for you Peter Drew”.
“Where is this photo from?” Ausmaxx asks in the video.
“I know where it’s from, this right here is Bella Singh, a man who passed the dictation test, getting an exemption to the White Australia Policy,” Sir Doug replied.
“And I’ve got his documentation right here, and there’s something off about that poster, because as you can see right here, listed is Indian.”
They then said “much better” while admiring their handiwork.
Sir Doug told Noticer News the stunt was not just intended to contest the posters’ far-left message, but to show that humour and “trolling” can be effective tools to hit back at the political establishment, describing them as the “super-power” of the right-wing.
The young activist was also part of a similar stunt earlier this year masterminded by fellow activist Hugo Lennon, known as Auspill online, where they put up alternative versions of the posters featuring Bondi terrorist Naveed Akram, Lindt café terrorist Man Monis and Donald Trump across Melbourne.
Mr Lennon said at the time his posters were a form of performance art, and were meant to generate debate about the original designs, but they sparked fury from Mr Drew who made multiple videos lashing out at the stunt.
Header image: Left, right, the activists cover up the Aussie posters (supplied).
