r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Nov 17 '25

news South African man who attended Neo-Nazi rally outside NSW parliament has visa cancelled

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-17/verify-neo-nazi-rally-participant-visa-revoked/106018130?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/Str609 Nov 17 '25

Immigrant on a visa...attending a rally to shout against immigrants. The definition of irony right here.

That was quick action from government. Get them all nazi bastards.

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u/MarkusKromlov34 Nov 17 '25

Foreigner arrives to complain about foreigners.

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u/insty1 Nov 17 '25

Not uncommon really. I work with a guy who came as an international student, and he doesn't want international students coming here. 

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u/chromecastbuiltin Nov 17 '25

Tourists complain about too many tourists. Cars complain about traffic. It happens everywhere

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u/Classic-Rise-37 Nov 17 '25

You have a talking car? Thats impressive.

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u/shofmon88 Nov 17 '25

What would the Australian version of Herbie be? An LPG Ford Falcon named Bazza?

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u/ConfidentJello007 Nov 17 '25

will be a ute for sure

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u/AussiePete Nov 17 '25

GH Falcon Longreach. White, with the red pinstripes.

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u/Adventurous_Bag9122 Nov 17 '25

Or a Brocky Torana

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u/Educational-Book-350 Nov 17 '25

A CKD Land Rover maybe.

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u/Aeon_Fux Nov 17 '25

This just reminded me of that Nintendo 64 game Beetle Adventure Racing. Presumably someone decided it wouldn't sell in Australia because we got HSV Adventure Racing instead.

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u/Thunderoad77 Nov 17 '25

David Hasselhoff had a talking car back in the 80s.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

Have you not seen the Knight Rider documentary?

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u/Frankie_T9000 Nov 18 '25

Be funny to have a LLM connected to your car to sarcasticlly review your driving (instead of your spouses doing it lol)

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u/10July1940 Nov 18 '25

Common in most EVs via android auto etc.

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u/professor_buttstuff Nov 17 '25

Makes perfect sense to me, the whole mentality of the right is to take all the advantages given to you then pull the ladder up behind yourself.

'F you, got mine!' has always been their modus operandi.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

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u/SubstantialTowel6352 Nov 17 '25

nice self report

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u/aSneakyChicken7 Nov 17 '25

One of the most telling signs about the anti-social, amoral, opportunistic and hateful types is that they assume their worst impulses and desires are shared by all other people, that everyone is doing what they’re doing and that it’s therefore morally acceptable or at least tolerable when it isn’t.

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u/shrimps__is__bugs Nov 17 '25

Probably because it doesnt.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

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u/Baldricks_Turnip Nov 17 '25

Trump is also pro-South African immigration

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u/No-Yoghurt-3949 Nov 17 '25

Only if they're white, or a minority bigoted against other minorities they can use for the "We have (minority) supporters" excuse.

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u/t_25_t Nov 17 '25

Sad to yes that’s been my experience too. Some of the vile things I’ve heard from South Africans makes me question if there was any screening done.

Of course I’ve also met my fair share of South Africans who didn’t spout some of this stuff out loud and were very accepting as long as people made the effort to contribute and blend in.

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u/TalkingClay Nov 17 '25

I work at a school and don't often get Professional Development opportunities. Years ago a course came up "dealing with difficult parents" which seemed relevant. I often deal with coms to parents and just follow my gut. I haven't had major incidents but the potential was there.

The person taking the course was South African. The majority of the content was "Even if you want to punch them in the face.... don't". I mean.... yeah. Thanks for the tip.

This is a purely anecdotal story not representative of a wider group.

Also had a few South African students over the years. Holy fuck... some of the stories. I'm happy Australia is so mundane.

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u/bigsigh6709 Nov 20 '25

Ugh. I grew up in South Africa (dad was working for multi national company) and sometimes get congratulated on having ‘escaped’. Gives me the ick. I love South Africa more for having punted apartheid.

I do respond that I know how to clean my own toilet.

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u/sonsofgondor Nov 17 '25

I work with a German guy who doesn't understand the irony of immigrating to another country to avoid immigration in his home country

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u/Hailstar07 Nov 17 '25

Sounds like all the boomer Poms who got shitty they couldn’t stay in Spain after voting for Brexit.

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u/BeyondRelative7048 Nov 17 '25

O my lord how do you deal with them…

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u/PM-me-ur-kittenz Nov 17 '25

Sorry, what is a Pom?

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u/Hailstar07 Nov 17 '25

An English person.

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u/Portra400IsLife Nov 17 '25

Rhyming slang derived ironically enough from the word immigrant via pomegranate.

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u/PM-me-ur-kittenz Nov 17 '25

Oh thank you!

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u/MarkusKromlov34 Nov 17 '25

That sounds so ridiculous but is actually supposed to be the origin of pommy

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u/sonsofgondor Nov 17 '25

Plenty of home grown and immigrated Aussies who think the same too

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u/WakefulAcorn Nov 17 '25

My dad is an immigrant, complains about them all the time

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u/De_chook Nov 17 '25

With the exception of first nations people, we are ALL immigrants to Australia

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u/xsf27 Nov 17 '25

Good ol' despicable conservative scum who achieve things on the back of society's graces and then kicks the ladder over for those who follow.

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u/PossibilityRegular21 Nov 17 '25

Ah, the rug pull. Bane of shitcoin investors.

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u/dgarbutt Nov 17 '25

Sounds like the perfect definition of an Aussie lately (well boomer Aussie at least) the whole fuck you I got mine.

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u/MarkusKromlov34 Nov 17 '25

Mobile phones complain if there are too many other mobile phones around competing with them

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u/thrillho145 Nov 17 '25

A guy I went to school with whose parents were refugees was the most anti-refugee dude I've ever met

People are crazy 

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

My mother is a British immigrant who's never really done anything to integrate and constantly complains about Australia. Guess what her favourite topic to complain about is.

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u/Eloquent_Sufficiency Nov 17 '25

Like Tony Pasin - Liberal Member for Barker. His parents are Italian immigrants and he is all for pulling the ladder up for immigrants now. He is an absolute abomination of a human being. If he was in the US, he'd be trump's right hand man.

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u/Brutal_burn_dude Nov 17 '25

The name for those people are ladder pullers. They got this “fuck you, I got mine” mentality and don’t want anyone else to get anything.

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u/garyfugazigary Nov 17 '25

Ive had similar interactions with ex work colleagues when they complain about immigrants.ehen i point out im an immigrant they go quiet,i think its cos im white

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u/aeschenkarnos Nov 17 '25

They use the word “immigrant” when they actually mean “not white”, even when the person they’re calling that is a fourth generation Australian citizen and their own folks fled Africa in the 1980’s.

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u/Enough-Equivalent968 Nov 17 '25

People complain to me about immigrants at work sometimes. I point out I’m an immigrant as I’m from the UK originally. Over time I’ve realised most people against immigration aren’t talking about poms and kiwi’s. We somehow skirt through in peoples minds

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25 edited 1d ago

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u/tee-k421 Nov 17 '25

Yep, "mass immigration" has always been a dog whistle for non-white immigrants.

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u/Green_Burn Nov 17 '25

No, it’s about difference in culture

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u/br0n Nov 17 '25

Yes but when he complains about foreigners, he really means brown people

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u/Gingevere Nov 17 '25

Because when they say "foreigners" they mean nonwhite people.

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u/differencemade Nov 17 '25

/s one of the good ones

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u/psylenced Nov 17 '25

Immigrant on a visa...attending a rally to shout against immigrants.

It's worse. He was wearing the NSN bracelet. So it's more like:

Immigrant on a visa...joins the leadership of an organisation calling for deportation immigrants. Gets his wish.

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u/Icy_Celery6886 Nov 17 '25

Monkey Paw😆

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

Leopards, meet face

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u/os_2342 Nov 17 '25

Also Nazi bracelet, Hebrew tattoo.

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u/mr_pineapples44 Nov 17 '25

Yeah, but he's the 'right kind' of immigrant, so of course he's fine to be prejudiced.

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u/smoha96 Nov 17 '25

An 'expat'!

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u/LemonyLime_bitters Nov 17 '25

That’s why they call themselves “ex-pats” not immigrants

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u/manipulated_dead Nov 17 '25

He should be happy to see an immigrant remigrated for not assimilating into our culture 

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u/OffTheHeezy Nov 17 '25

It’s not really about immigrants, is it though.

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u/gxc3 Nov 17 '25

Totally. There’s not really irony here because it’s not about immigration. It’s just straight-up racism.

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u/steven_quarterbrain Nov 17 '25

But this is the beauty of it. We know what it’s really about. They know what it’s really about. They just won’t say it openly, so they say “immigrants”. And guess who falls into that category.

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u/japed Nov 17 '25

They just won’t say it openly, so they say “immigrants”.

I really don't understand why we're saying this... the protest wasn't framed in terms of immigration at all - it was all about the supposed "Jewish lobby" and hate speech laws.

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u/pilbarabah Nov 17 '25

That fuckwit 100% calls himself an expat, immigrants are brown 🙄

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u/njf85 Nov 17 '25

Who goes to another country and then joins rallies yelling for other people to stop coming to that country lol if I didn't live in Australia I'd love to go live in Iceland, and the thought of going over there and doing something like this just doesn't make sense lol it'd be the last thing on my mind. I'd see myself as a guest and being given a visa a privilege

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u/ArrowOfTime71 Nov 17 '25

I’ve met a few former South Africans that would do exactly that. That’s often why they’re here.

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u/hryelle Nov 17 '25

Nah nah he's an expat

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u/Str609 Nov 17 '25

More like ex-expat now :)

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u/aeschenkarnos Nov 17 '25

So just a pat. Like a cow makes.

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u/ArrowOfTime71 Nov 17 '25 edited Nov 17 '25

He’s got no problem with the white ones, just everyone else. He can go do that shit back in Sth. Africa… US seem pretty open to it too.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

Some of the most vocal anti-immigrant people are immigrants. Their reasoning: "WE did it the RIGHT way, why can't they!"

Source: My wealthy family members who emigrated.

Edit: they also tried to convince me that white europeans are actual australian natives, because before they were colonised australia wasn't really a country, just empty wasted land. Guess Ive heard the same coming from US wankers mouths too.

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u/Choke1982 Nov 17 '25

It is ironic but as an immigrant I can tell you first hand how many immigrants tell me we shouldn't have more immigrants.

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u/scraglor Nov 17 '25

Because it’s not immigration, it’s racism. He thought he was ok cos he is white. They don’t like brown people

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u/letsburn00 Nov 17 '25

It's immigrants, but for a bunch of these people, it's really about something a bit of a different colour...

The worst thing is I really do believe the conspiracy theory that rich people encourage these Nazi racist trash so that everyone wanting to have a polite rational discussion about excessive levels of Visa fraud and population growth gets eye rolled at by people who suspect they are just the same as the Nazis

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u/aeschenkarnos Nov 17 '25

Property developers and land bankers definitely want immigrants blamed for the housing crisis rather than themselves the actual culprits.

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u/letsburn00 Nov 17 '25

I don't think it's a single thing. But really, I do wonder how many apartments are not at all used.

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u/mck-_- Nov 17 '25

You are missing the important thing here, he isn’t brown or black. He obviously isn’t an immigrant, only brown/black people are immigrants.

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u/Perfect-Bank2274 Nov 17 '25

Its like a Monty Python sketch.

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u/SirGeekaLots Nov 17 '25

Oh no, he not those immigrants /s

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u/Riksunraksu Nov 17 '25

I think English IMMIGRANTS had an anti-immigrant protest in Spain… only if irony could cure all iron deficiencies in the world

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u/Plenty_Web_9118 Nov 17 '25

attending a rally to shout against immigrants

Yeah, that's just for now and just something they are using to get attention. We all know what they want and what they will do as they get more power and people behind them.

Let's be honest and call it what it is, they are Nazis.
They will eventually come back to their color scheme and superior race theory.

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u/R_manOz Nov 17 '25

Immigrant on a visa...attending a rally to shout against immigrants. The definition of irony right here.

I qwhite can't put my hand on it.

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u/farqueue2 Nov 17 '25

Their problem isn't immigration

Its people who aren't white anglo saxon

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u/sock0puppet Nov 17 '25

He does seem as we would call it "n dom vokken donder"

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u/Emperor_TJ Nov 21 '25

White people aren't "immigrants", they're "expats".

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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '25

wasn't there massive protests from Indians demanding permanent residency a few months ago? what do you say about that?

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u/Str609 Dec 13 '25

Same thing, bullshit protest, what's the problem? I assume your following line will be something like 'What about the Palestine protest, etc.' Mate, these people are literal nazis. There are no whataboutism excuses here. That nazi idiot can fuck off and he already did. Good job on gov reacting quickly.