National Action (Australia) should not be confused with National Action (UK).
| National Action | |
| Founders: | Jim Saleam David Greason |
| Leader: | Jim Saleam |
| Foundation: | 1982 |
| Size: | ~500 (1989) |
| Dissolution: | 1991 |
| Ideology: | Australian nationalism[1] White nationalism Anti-multiculturalism Anti-immigration |
| Newspaper: | Advance |
| Position: | Right-wing[2] to far-right |
| Country: | Australia |
National Action was a militant Australian white nationalist group founded in 1982 by Jim Saleam, a far-right activist, and David Greason.[3] Saleam had been a member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia as a teenager during the 1970s.
Jim Saleam's criminal convictions include property offenses and fraud in 1984 and being an accessory before the fact in regard to organising a shotgun attack in 1989 on African National Congress representative Eddie Funde.[4] Saleam served jail terms for both crimes.[3] He pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming that he was set up by police.[4] [3]
The group was disbanded following the murder of a member, Wayne "Bovver" Smith, in the group's headquarters at Tempe.[3] Saleam later became the New South Wales chairman of the Australia First Party,[3] and stood as its endorsed candidate several times.
The National Action co-founder David Greason's book, I was a Teenage Fascist, tells of Greason's own time within the Australian fascist movement and the events behind the founding of National Action.