National Action
The Eureka flag, originally raised in the Eureka Rebellion and later adopted by the group.[1]
Founders	Jim Saleam David Greason
Leader	Jim Saleam
Foundation	1982
Dissolved	1991
Country	Australia
Headquarters	Tempe, New South Wales
Newspaper	Advance (1983–1989)[2]
Ideology	Australian nationalism[3][4] White nationalism[5] Anti-multiculturalism Anti-immigration[6]
Political position	Right-wing[7][8] to far-right[5]
Size	~500 (1989)[9]

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National Action was a militant Australian white nationalist group founded in 1982 by Jim Saleam, a far-right activist, and David Greason.^[10][11] Saleam had been a member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia as a teenager during the 1970s.^[12]

Jim Saleam's criminal convictions include property offenses and fraud in 1984 and being an accessory before the fact in regard to organising a shotgun attack in 1989 on African National Congress representative Eddie Funde.^[5] Saleam served jail terms for both crimes.^[11] He pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming that he was set up by police.^[5][11]

The group was disbanded following the murder of a member, Wayne "Bovver" Smith, in the group's headquarters at Tempe.^[11] Saleam later became the New South Wales chairman of the Australia First Party,^[11] and stood as its endorsed candidate several times.

The National Action co-founder David Greason's book, I was a Teenage Fascist, tells of Greason's own time within the Australian fascist movement and the events behind the founding of National Action.^[13]

See also

• Australians Against Further Immigration
• Far-right politics in Australia
• Reclaim Australia
• True Blue Crew
• United Patriots Front

References

Bibliography

• Whitford, Troy (2013). "Combating Political Police: An Overview of National Action's Counterintelligence Program 1982–1990" (PDF). Salus Journal. 2 (1).
• Saleam, James (1999). The Other Radicalism: An Inquiry Into Contemporary Australian Extreme Right Ideology, Politics And Organization 1975–1995 (PDF) (Thesis). Sydney, Australia: Fisher Library, University of Sydney.
• Greason, David (1994). I was a Teenage Fascist. Carlton: McPhee Gribble. ISBN 9780869142851.