| National Action | |
|---|---|
 | |
| 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] tofar-right[5] |
| Size | ~500 (1989)[9] |
National Action was amilitantAustralianwhite nationalist group founded in 1982 byJim Saleam, afar-right activist, and David Greason.[10][11] Saleam had been a member of the short-livedNational 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 anaccessory before the fact in regard to organising a shotgun attack in 1989 onAfrican 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 atTempe.[11] Saleam later became theNew South Wales chairman of theAustralia 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]
National Action, a right-wing organization that promoted, amongst other things, a return to a White Australia policy, and was particularly against immigration from Asia.
