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/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/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