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The Saturday Briefing
The “Unite the Right” rally, in Charlottesville, Virginia, was comprised of angry nativists, Klansmen, neo-Nazis and at least one killer. It was both intimidating and instantly emblematic, and the media rushed to get pictures. What the participants lacked in numbers, they made up for with a willingness to re-create the darkest scenes of American history.
In Australia, white nationalist groups were buoyed by the events in Charlottesville. Last week, a group calling itself the Antipodean Resistance plastered schools across Melbourne with racist and anti-Semitic posters. Last month, alt-right fascists The Dingoes held a conference in Sydney. Martin McKenzie-Murray reports on the resurgence of white supremacy.
Plus: Paul Bongiorno on the harm resulting from Malcolm Turnbull’s timidity, and Eva Cox on the failed paternalism of cashless welfare.
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