Tens of thousands of anti-immigration protesters have joined March for Australia rallies in the country’s biggest cities – the largest nationalist street demonstrations Australia has seen in decades.
A crowd of more than 20,000 gathered in Sydney at midday on Sunday with similar numbers in Brisbane, police said 15,000 joined the Adelaide rally, attendees estimated about 10,000 marched in Melbourne, and thousands more turned up in Canberra, Perth and Townsville.
The rallies were largely peaceful, but scuffles broke out in Melbourne where violent left-wing extremist counter-protesters tried to attack demonstrators and police were forced to deploy capsicum spray against the agitators.
This is about a tenth of the March for Australia crowd in Sydney.
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Brisbane, March for Australia
Amazing stuff @SpambotX organiser for Brisbane pic.twitter.com/wKwlnISs2K
— Mickamious (@MickamiousG) August 31, 2025
An estimated 5000 Aussie patriots are marching against mass immigration in Melbourne.
Tens of thousands across the country.#MarchForAustralia pic.twitter.com/MARnhtoCiA
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At the Canberra march for Australia right now. Pretty chill. Surrounded by Aussies. Pauline Hanson is here. Message is wholesome, no racists that I can see. Counter protesters are just angry and noisy, we are ignoring them. pic.twitter.com/hJvjeXxOli
— Quin Koch (@QcmKoch) August 31, 2025
Absolutely massive. And not a single loser jihadi in sight. Australia rules. pic.twitter.com/11goUJoPY7
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Our March for Australia in Cairns: AUSSIE! AUSSIE! AUSSIE!!! OI! OI! OI! pic.twitter.com/73AsQ8eeFt
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C’MON AUSSIES C’MON!
Huge turnout in Sydney at the march for Australia.
Aussies are standing up against mass immigration! pic.twitter.com/K5vgXIVHqP
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NSW Police said there were “no significant incidents” during the Sydney marathon, the March for Australia rally, a counterprotest held nearby and a pro-Palestine protest Hyde Park where one woman was arrested for allegedly breaching the peace. No injuries were reported.
Three people were arrested in Adelaide, and at least six people were arrested in Melbourne.
In Sydney the crowd filled Belmore Park before marching to Victoria Park near the University of Sydney, where attendees chanted “Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi” and “Albo has to go”.
Libertarian MP John Ruddick told the Sydney crowd he was in favour of a five-year immigration pause, prompting chants of “send them back”, and One Nation leader Pauline Hanson turned up in Canberra draped in the Australian flag.
Cumberland City Councillor Steve Christou also spoke at the Sydney rally, along with lawyer Matthew Hopkins, and Professor Stephen McInerney.
White Australia leader Thomas Sewell makes a speech at the March for Australia rally in Melbourne. pic.twitter.com/WsOA8iVTkB
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Full speech from @aus_pill on the ground at Melbourne in-front of Victoria’s Parliament House
Strong words said, very true words said.
Australia’s Government has sold out and betrayed the people of Australia pic.twitter.com/p4757aKx7i
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March for Australia Rally Speech. Honoured to address the tens of thousand of Aussie Patriots that showed up. pic.twitter.com/mmzfSu1BPJ
— Councillor Steve Christou Libertarian Party (@ChristouSteve) August 31, 2025
Dozens of black-clad members of the National Socialist Network also joined the rallies, with White Australia leader Thomas Sewell making a speech in Melbourne, and NSW leader Jack Eltis and prominent activist Joel Davis both speaking in Sydney.
“We don’t have to hate these people or set them up as our enemy, but there are 1.4 billion Chinamen and 1.4 billion Indians, and there are billions of other people in this world, and they all have a nation,” said Mr Sewell, who was repeatedly cheered by the crowd.
“They all have a home and if we allow ourselves to be replaced and displaced in this land, if we do not maintain our demographics, if we do not stop immigration, then our death is certain.”
National Socialist Network leader Jacob Hersant attended the Brisbane march, where the crowd chanted “send them back” and “deportations now”. Mr Hersant told Noticer News that the crowd were vocal in their support of the NSN attendees, who were prevented from speaking by organisers and police, and booed an Indian speaker.
In Adelaide an NSN speaker was dragged off stage by police after scuffles erupted while he addressed the crowd.
March for Australia organisers Bec Freedom and Hugo Lennon made speeches in Sydney and Melbourne respectively, and Mr Lennon asked the crowd to join “operation raise the colours” by flying Australian flags at their homes.
Katter’s Australia Party MP Bob Katter spoke to loud cheers in Townsville, holding a Eureka flag and saying: “When oppression becomes law, then resistance becomes duty. Every man dies, but not every man lives … that is Australia.”
Photos posted on social media also show smaller gatherings in Darwin in the Northern Territory, in Mackay, Bundaberg, and Cairns in Queensland, Echuca in Victoria, Albany, Broome and Geraldton in Western Australia, and in Launceston and Hobart in Tasmania where political commentator John Macgowan addressed the crowd.
Header image: Left, the Sydney march. Right, crowds in Brisbane (supplied).
