Canberra, Aug. 31 -- The Australian government has slammed the anti-immigration rallies by protesters under the nationwide 'March For Australia' movement, linking them to neo-Nazi sympathies, racism, and hatred. The rallies, which also targeted the Australian-Indian community, were held in Melbourne, Sydney, Cairns, Brisbane, among others.
"We absolutely condemn the March for Australia rally that's going on today. It is not about increasing social harmony," Murray Watt, a senior minister in the Labour government, told Sky News television, when asked about the rally in Sydney, the country's most-populous city.
"We don't support rallies like this that are about spreading hate and that are about dividing our community," Watt says, asserting ...