Australia First Movement was a proto-fascist movement which grew out of the Rational Association and the Victorian Socialist Party. Former communist Adela Pankhurst Walsh of the famous suffragette family was involved in it, along with W.J Miles, rhodes scholar Percy Stephensen, Xavier Herbert, famous novelist Miles Franklin and Eleanor Dark. Its 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 it was advocating a national socialist corporate state, along with a political alliance with the axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan. Compromised by direct links with Japan, the organisation was suppressed in 1942, with some members being interned. Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... In philosophy and in its broadest sense, rationalism is any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification (Lacey, 286). ... The Victorian Socialist Party (VSP) was a socialist political party in Victoria, Australia in the early 20th century. ... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Suffragette with banner, Washington DC, 1918 The title of suffragette (also occasionally spelt suffraget) was given to members of the womens suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. ... Percy Reginald Stephensen, known as Inky Stephensen was a Rhodes Scholar who moved across the political spectrum from the Communist Party of Australia to the fascist Australia First Movement, whose magazine The Publicist he edited from 1941-1942. ... Xavier Herbert (1901-1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin-winning book Poor Fellow My Country (1975), and could be considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. ... Miles Franklin (born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, 1879 - 1954) was an Australian writer. ... The British Empire in 1897, marked in pink, the traditional colour for Imperial British dominions on maps. ... Reconstructions of the traditions of Germanic paganism began with 19th century Romanticism. ... Alexander Rud Mills (1885-1964) was an early and prominent Odinist in Australia, and one of the earliest proponments of the rebirth of Odinism in the 20th Century whose role in the emergence of Germanic Neopaganism in that country before and during World War II resulted in his arrest and... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ... The concept of the corporate state developed under the context of Fascism in Mussolinis Italy as a means of regulating industrial relations. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

See also

• Australia First Party

The Australia First Party (AFP) is a minor political party in Australia. ...

References

1. The Australia-First Movement by Barbara Winter, ISBN 1-876819-91-X
2. The Puzzled Patriots by Bruce Muirden, 1968