Founder of Proud Boys gang denied visa to enter Australia, but many warn right-wing groups aren't going away.
"Tommy Robinson's real name is Stephen istopher Yaxley-Lennon. He changed it to hide the fact he is a life-long Nazi," said an activist addressing a rally outside Australia's Department of Home Affairs in Melbourne in late November.
"He was a member of the fascist British National Party in the 2000s and a march of 15,000 people organised while he was in jail in June this year saw marchers giving the Nazi salute in his honour."
For months, anti-racism campaigners in Australia have called for the denial of visas to Robinson and Gavin McInnes, both prominent figures in the global far-right movement. McInnes was a cofounder of Vice magazine before leaving the organisation in 2008 and founding the Proud Boys, who describe themselves as "a pro-Western fraternal organisation for men who refuse to apologise for creating the modern world; aka Western Chauvinists".
McInnes and the Proud Boys were banned from Twitter this August and after the Guardian revealed the FBI had listed the organisation as "an extremist hate group with ties to white nationalism", while the Southern Poverty Law Centre classifies it as a hate group.
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