An Australian nationalist content creator has been ejected from pro-multiculturalism rally for immigration reform in Melbourne by organisers and promoters.
Hugo Lennon, known as Auspill online and one of the organisers of the March for Australia movement, turned up at the Put Australia First rally on Sunday but was told he was not welcome by organiser Nick Patterson and Rebel News host Avi Yemini, who heavily promoted the event.
The protest was organised by former freedom activist Monica Smit following the success of the first March for Australia rally on August 31, but called for “immigration reform” rather than an end to mass immigration, as well as demanding affordable energy and an end to digital ID.
Despite promotion by Sky News Australia and 2GB radio host Ben Fordham, Victoria Police said only about 700 people attended the rally, which involved a march from Flinders Street Station to Flagstaff Gardens.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson then gave a speech that was disrupted by a far-left extremist heckler, and British activist Tommy Robinson appeared via video.
Aussie patriot Hugo Lennon @aus_pill refused entry to Melbourne’s “Put Australia First” rally by organiser Nick Patterson and journalist Avi Yemini.
“No Australian nationalists allowed”pic.twitter.com/O99sysdoVY
— The Noticer (@NoticerNews) November 30, 2025
Video of the lead-up to the confrontation appears to show Yemini instructing his cameraman to “catch the shot” before telling Patterson to “kick him out”.
Patterson then walks over to Auspill and Yemini follows. pic.twitter.com/WOc6nFWFwI
— The Noticer (@NoticerNews) November 30, 2025
Video streamed by Rebel News showed a man, who attended a previous rally wearing a hoodie bearing the logo of Jewish protest group Lions of Zion, telling Yemini he had spotted Lennon. Yemini then told his cameraman to “catch the shot” and appeared to tell Patterson to “kick him out”.
Patterson then walked over to Lennon where both he and Yemini accused him of being a Nazi because of his Helly Hansen jacket.
When Lennon said he was an Australian nationalist, not a Nazi, Patterson said: “Well, we don’t want Australian nationalists here.”
Lennon then asked Yemini about his support for Israel and IDF service, sparking a debate about loyalty to Australia and the Anzacs that ended when Lennon said “they actually fought for a White Australia” and Avi walked away moments before police descended on the area.
Similar scenes unfolded at an anti-Islam protest in July, where Yemini and Patterson called police to eject White Australia activist Joel Davis. Yemini was then confronted at the March for Australia rally on August 31 by White Australia Thomas Sewell and forced to leave.
The Melbourne rally came a day after about 300 people attended a Put Australia First rally in Sydney, which Smit described on Sky News and 2GB as an anti-racist event calling for “realistic immigration reform”.
Smit also told her followers not to attend the August 31 March for Australia rally before backflipping when it grew in popularity, and on Friday told an X space that she wasn’t concerned about the demographic replacement of White Australians because “I’m going to be dead by then”.
Header image: Left, right, Auspill speaking to Patterson and Yemini (Rebel News).
