A nationalist activist who took part in a peaceful police-approved protest against the influence of the Jewish lobby in Sydney has had his visa cancelled and faces deportation to South Africa.
Matthew Gruter, a married civil engineer with a newborn baby who has been in Australia on a working visa for the past three years, was among 67 members of the National Socialist Network who demonstrated outside NSW Parliament on November 8.
Mr Gruter was identified after a doxxing campaign conducted by far-left extremists working with The Sydney Morning Herald in the weeks following the protest, which had been approved by NSW Police, was non-violent, and resulted in no arrests or charges.
New footage shows about 70 members of the National Socialist Network protesting outside NSW parliament in Sydney today against the Jewish lobby’s influence on Australian politics. pic.twitter.com/FoF4DoFMgW
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Immigration Minister Tony Burke , whose government has allowed hundreds of foreign criminals out of immigration detention over the past two years, said on Monday Mr Gruter’s work visa had been revoked, and claimed the nationalist activist “specialised in hatred”, telling a press conference “he can leave”.
Noticer News understands that Mr Gruter intends to appeal via the courts or a tribunal, and a GiveSendGo has been started to support him and his family.
Jack Eltis, the NSW leader of political organisation White Australia, said in a statement on Monday evening the decision of the government to deport Mr Gruter while allowing immigrant criminals to stay made it clear that “the Australian government hates White people”, and called Mr Burke a “traitor to the nation”.
“Matthew is an intelligent, honourable, hard working White man who has come to Australia and contributed productively to Australia as a civil engineer. He has a loving wife, and a newborn baby. He represents some of the greatest traits of our race and spirit,” Mr Eltis said.
“Matthew’s only ‘crime’ in the eyes of the treasonous Australian government, is advocating that Australia remain a White nation and not turn into South Africa, having seen the effects himself.
“In complete contrast to this decision, Noticer News reported yesterday on the decision to allow a convicted Afghani rapist to remain in Australia and not be deported. Africans who terrorise Melbourne daily with knives and machetes, and Palestinians who protest weekly for years on end burning our flag, are similarly never deported.”
United Australia Party senator Ralph Babet also criticised the decision, writing in a comment on Facebook: “You can’t cancel peoples visas because you don’t like their political views. This is a slippery slope and will not end well for everyone.”
Mr Burke’s comments come just days after the Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia restored the visa of Mohammad Mohammadi, 28, who sexually assaulted a teenage girl on a Melbourne bus in 2018 and only had his visa cancelled in August this year.
The Albanese Labor government has also allowed about 350 immigrants to remain in Australia, despite convictions for serious criminal offences, as a result of a November 2023 High Court decision that ruled a Rohingya refugee who raped a 10-year-old boy could not be kept in indefinite detention.
They include a violent Sudanese thug who was allowed to stay because he self-identifies as Aboriginal, a New Zealander who raped his 14-year-old stepdaughter while his wife was giving birth, a Lebanese immigrant who raped a girl, 13, he picked up in his van, and many more.
Dozens have gone on to commit more crimes, including an African man who is back behind bars charged with the brutal bashing murder of a photographer in Melbourne, a Sudanese national who allegedly murdered a man in Brisbane, and a Sudanese gang member who went on to commit more violent crimes.
Another, a Pakistani rapist who cannot be named due to a court order, was recaptured after cutting off his ankle bracelet in Melbourne in March.
In July a grieving widow spoke out after learning that an Indian driver who was jailed for five years for killing her husband had still not been deported due to repeated appeals.
Federal deportation laws require the cancellation of visas of non-citizen criminals who have been sentenced to a year or more in prison, but Victorian magistrates have been given training on how to impose lesser sentences so as to avoid triggering deportation.
Header image: Left, Mr Gruter. Right, the NSN’s Jewish lobby protest (supplied).
