Overview

• ‘March for Australia’ events drew thousands across major cities and featured neo-Nazi figures alongside some politicians calling for an end to mass migration.
• High-profile amplifiers including Elon Musk, Alex Jones, Tommy Robinson and Jack Posobiec pushed the rallies online, with posts circulating inflated crowd numbers.
• Organiser materials and rhetoric echoed far-right doctrines such as ‘remigration’ and the Great Replacement theory, and authorities linked rallies to influencers Bec Freedom in Sydney and Hugo Lennon in Melbourne.
• Flyers singled out Indian migrants, and a widely shared clip shows an Indian man booed and shoved while addressing the Melbourne crowd, though several outlets said they could not independently verify the footage.
• Government data show net overseas migration fell to about 341,000 in the 12 months to December 31, 2024 from a 2022–23 peak of about 538,000, and ministers publicly condemned the rallies’ messaging.