A group of patriotic activists who unfurled a “stop immigration” banner over a Melbourne highway have been greeted with constant beeps of support from passing motorists.
The demonstrators from nationalist community group the National Workers Alliance (NWA) also displayed a banner with their name and logo and waved Australian and Eureka flags on the overpass at Patterson Lakes on Sunday.
Video posted on social media along with separate footage viewed by Noticer News shows a steady stream of cars beeping as they drove past the group, and one activist wrote on X that locals cheered and showed “overwhelming support” for their message.
.@_workers took to the streets of Patterson Lakes, Melbourne today, to the cheers of locals brandishing a simple banner: “Stop Immigration”
Overwhelming support for the brave men shows unambiguously that anti immigration sentiment is greater than ever pic.twitter.com/lXRh8ZYgcN
— Cameron ❄️ 🇦🇺 (@xcCameron_) January 4, 2026
“[It] shows unambiguously that anti-immigration sentiment is greater than ever,” he wrote.
“Great work guys,” March for Australia organiser Bec Freedom responded, while another X user wrote: “Bloody awesome lads!”
The protest comes amid rising public anger over Australia’s record-high immigration levels, resulting in a surge of support for One Nation, the growing March for Australia movement, and Liberal Party MPs Andrew Hastie and Jacinta Price crowdfunding new anti-immigration campaigns.
Conservative campaign group Advance also made an end-of-year appeal to raise $1 million to call for migration cuts on TV, radio and social media early in 2026, and accused Labor of “opening the doors to countless immigrants who do not share our values” in an email from executive director Matthew Sheahan.
NWA’s Matt Trihey led the second March for Australia protest in Melbourne on October 19 that attracted thousands of demonstrators, and organised a massive Australia Day rally outside Rod Laver Arena last year.
Mr Trihey organised that rally in response to left-wing Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan refusing to reinstate the city’s annual Australia Day parade, which was cancelled by her predecessor Daniel Andrews using Covid as an excuse and never brought back.
He told Noticer News at the time he was impressed with the attendance at his event despite negative and inaccurate corporate media coverage in the days prior, saying: “This is just the start, we will return to the natural order of things.”
Header image: Left, right, the banner protest on Sunday (supplied).
