White Heritage: March For Australia Organisers Exposed
- Staff Writer
- Aug 30
- 3 min read
Far-Right Links Behind August 31 Anti-Immigration Protests Emerge
Australia is bracing for the March for Australia protests set for August 31, 2025. The rallies, scheduled to take place in major Australian cities, have been marketed primarily on social media as rallies calling to "end mass immigration" and protect Australia's identity.
However, various media reports have unmasked some of the organisers behind the events to be linked to the far-right and white supremacist movements.
Bec Freedom: Say Australian Heritage Instead Of White Heritage
A woman who goes by the name Bec Freedom is the organiser of the Sydney March For Australia protest. 2GB host Ben Fordham confronted Bec Freedom with an audio clip in which she stated, "we need to see violence", drawing a direct comparison to the racial violence of the 2005 Cronulla Riots. "We need violence, I'm sorry, but we need f**king violence," she says. "We've done peaceful, peaceful hasn't done s**t… I don't think that anything significant is going to change unless something like that does happen again. Until we stand up and do something like that day I think it's just going to be repeating." Freedom later apologised for her statements.
In a live stream audio on X, formerly Twitter, a woman - identified by the media as bec Freedom - is heard telling listeners how to explain and make the anti-immigrant protests acceptable to a wider audience.
"But if we break it down, this is how I tried to explain it to somebody… "So, protect Australian heritage, culture, way of life. Next step, protect European culture, heritage, way of life. The next step is protect white heritage. So it all means the same thing."
She says that claiming Australian heritage will make it more acceptable and appealing to people who the Nazi links might otherwise put off.
"Australian heritage — by saying it that way, it is more appealing to the public. It's going to deter them from saying, 'Oh, it's a Nazi rally, blah, blah.'"
Who Are The Oraganisers of March For Australia?
The organisers of the event have remained hidden. An ABC investigation revealed that some of them had spouted far-right anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Hugo Lennon, the former administrator of the March For Australia Facebook group, is "a far-right anti-immigration influencer who has a history of promoting extreme-right and racist materials online,” according to the ABC.
Matt Trihey is the founder of the white supremacist National Workers Alliance and a former member of the Lads Society. He gained notoriety for being punched in the face by an elderly woman at a political meeting in Kooyong earlier this year. Trihey was one of the organisers of the Victorian protest, before he was replaced by Lennon.
The online handle Bender, who took ownership of the Brisbane march, had posted about the white supremacist “great replacement theory” and reshared posts by the neo-Nazi group Nationalist Socialist Network (NSN), ABC reported.
Other online handles that have claimed ownership of the March for Australia protests in various cities have been exposed to have posted far-right rhetoric.
National Socialist Network Links
Earlier in August 2025, more than a hundred masked neo-Nazis marched through Melbourne’s CBD, openly chanting hateful slogans and inciting public fear. The March for Australia Facebook group rejected claims by NSN and its founder, Thomas Sewell that they were behind the anti-immigration protests.
However, many March for Australia organisers have documented connections to the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network (NSN), with overlapping membership and aligned ideologies.
The March’s official website shares technological and stylistic connections with white supremacist sites, and many identified state-level organisers have direct links to NSN.
The rhetoric used in the movement echoes classic far-right conspiracies, including elements of the "great replacement theory," which falsely claims that white Australians are being deliberately replaced by immigrants from non-European backgrounds.
Recently, anti-vaccine protester Monica Smit called out statements that people with neo-Nazi links would be speaking at the August 31 events on stage. Smit called for the neo-Nazis to be booed off the stage.
The March For Australia group put out a statement on Saturday evening, terming Smit’s statement “disappointing”.
“Every Australian who wants an immediate halt to mass immigration is welcome at the March For Australia,” the group said.
“The media wants to play a game of labels. None of it matters. We are above cancel culture, and we will not let those opposed to our message dictate to us who is and who isn’t allowed at our march,” the group said, adding, “This includes people and groups on the right many consider controversial. Australians must come together in defence of our national identity. The Left does not cancel its radicals from its street marches. Neither should we.”
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