Inside Reclaim Australia
They say they’re proud Australians who want to protect their Australian way of life. Opponents say they’re a bunch of dangerous extremists dividing Australia, inflaming hatred and fear of Islam and intimidating those who follow that faith. Reclaim Australia has been making a lot of noise but very little is known about how this provocative movement came to be, its internal operations and precisely who is in charge. For the first time Sunday Night goes inside Reclaim Australia to meet the trio of suburban novices who started the movement and the hard-core campaigners who joined in and ramped up the rhetoric and the intensity of its campaigns. Sunday Night reveals the three were brought together by a shared belief that the Lindt Café siege in Sydney was an act of Islamic extremism and despite the fact that they had no experience in activism, protest or political organisation they decided to make their voices heard. They tell Sunday Night’s Alex Cullen they were stunned by the numbers of like-minded people who swarmed to their on-line rallying site. Those supporters would soon include some of the most hard-line, organised and active anti-Islam agitators in the country. It begs the question: who was ultimately in charge? The novice mums and dads who started the ball rolling or the battle-hardened extremists who packed in as the movement gained momentum. This is a startling, eye-opening insight into a corner of Australian society that is deeply confronted by multiculturalism and Australia’s Islamic community. Are they minority fringe-dwellers or are their concerns shared more broadly? Sunday Night viewers will have a chance to have their say after viewing this exclusive, inside story.
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