Australia First Movement

Australia First Movement was a proto-fascist movement which grew out of the Rational Association and the Victorian Socialist Party. Adela Pankhurst Walsh, of the famous suffragette family, was involved in the movement, along with W. J. Miles, Rhodes scholar Percy Stephensen, and writers Xavier Herbert, Miles Franklin and Eleanor Dark.

The movement's advocacy of independence from the British Empire attracted the support of the Catholic weekly, The Advocate, as well as the Odinist Alexander Rud Mills. It was anti-semitic, and by 1938 was advocating a national socialist corporate state and a political alliance with the axis powers of Germany,Italy and Japan. Compromised by its direct links with Japan, the organisation was suppressed in March 1942. Four Australia First Movement members in Perth, and sixteen in Sydney, were arrested. Two were convicted of conspiring to assist the enemy and others were interned – a decision later criticised heavily by Paul Hasluck, in his official history of Australian involvement in the Second World War.

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