A group of nationalist activists have staged an election day protest against immigrant voting blocs with a series of banners in Melbourne.
About two dozen members of the Nationalist Socialist Network (NSN) held the signs on three bridges across the M1 Motorway in Chadstone on Saturday morning.
The banners on the first bridge said “No Asian votes should count” and “No Indian votes should count”, those on the second said “No black votes should count” and “No Muslim votes should count”, and the last banner said “Only Aussie votes should count”.
Nationalist activists protest against immigrant voting blocs with a series of banners in Melbourne on election day.
The last one says “only Aussie votes should count”.
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NSN activist Joel Davis told Noticer News said Australia’s political system was being subverted by foreigners voting in their own ethnic and religious interests.
“The decisive role set to be played by immigrant voting blocs this election invalidates today’s result, whatever it is,” he said.
“Importing voters is an attack on Australian sovereignty.”
The protest comes after the group handed out satirical flyers critiquing the Liberal Party for its policies on Israel, anti-Semitism and free speech, and Labor for mass immigration of Indians.
Immigrant and non-English speaking background voters are expected to have an outsized influence on this year’s election, with a Redbridge Accent poll earlier this week finding “diverse Australians” are now the country’s most powerful voting bloc.
More satirical election campaign flyers in Melbourne, this time targeting Labor and titled “Flood Australia with Indians”.
The National Socialist Network told us they sent these to thousands of homes.
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RedBridge Director Kos Samaras said last Saturday that the results showed that the Coalition’s campaign was in trouble, due to young Australians and “diverse communities” backing Labor by more than 60%, and polls this week mirror the trend.
“Notably, Labor is leading across every demographic except Boomers. 44% of diverse Australians we surveyed intend to vote Labor, making them the strongest consolidated voting bloc,” Mr Samaras said.
“This group also shows the lowest level of support for minor parties and independents compared to the broader electorate.
“For me Labor’s massive lead amongst diverse communities is the real ominous sign for the Coalition given the two swing states of NSW and Victoria are the most diverse.”
Organised Muslim voting blocs have also emerged as a force in this year’s election due to the conflict in Gaza, with two groups – The Muslim Vote, and Muslim Votes Matter – working to mobilise Islamic voters for the first time.
Both lobby groups are campaigning in heavily Muslim Labor-held seats, accusing the incumbents of “taking their votes for granted”.
The Muslim Vote (TMV) has endorsed independent candidates to run against immigration minister Tony Burke in Watson in western Sydney, which was 25.1% Muslim at the time of the 2021 Census, and education minister Jason Clare in Blaxland, where one in three residents are Muslim.
And while they are not endorsing a candidate in Parramatta (10.5% Muslim, held by Labor with a 3.7% margin), TMV convener Sheikh Wesam Charkawi said they hoped to unseat Labor MP Andrew Charlton by having Muslims preference Labor last.
“Andrew Charlton has abandoned his constituency on the Gaza issue. There’s a mood of betrayal on the ground,” he told ABC News this week.
“We’re hearing in fact from a lot of people that are saying, come next election 3rd of May, we’ll definitely going to be casting our votes against the Labor Party.”
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