Dorg,

Fascism means a lot more than tooth-brush moustaches, or black or brown shirts too, Dorg. Try to get below the surface features.

Fascist activity - i.e. that carried out by supporters of fascism - employs brutal, violent, repressive, terrorising tactics to get their way. A fascist tactic might be to launch a brutal attack on unsuspecting individuals, usually well outnumbering him. Another tactic is to shut down any discussion, using violence as well as overwhelming noise, shouting, loud-hailers, etc. to stop an opponent from getting their view heard, and resorting to violence when 'necessary'.

A fascist will admire someone who uses the most brutal forms of violence, even if they are not of the same group: fascists are always learning 'better brutality'. They are likely to be addicted to violence porn.

Fascism is not remotely interested in principle, or ideas generally: whatever works, whatever or whoever works to destroy your enemy, use it. All the worst scum are welcome into fascist ranks.

A fascist regime will repress the voice of the people, jailing, say, 1400 peaceful marchers, including their leader, if they can't kill him just yet, as they may have done before. A fascist regime will murder reporters (careful getting into a lift, Dorg) in order to terrorise the rest into silence. A fascist regime will ban opposition parties, of course.

And, of course, a fascist regime will set up networks of agents in other countries, in order to subvert them.

Any of that sounds familiar ?

Joe

Bazz,

Sorry about that, the children were thrown overboard but as I remember it they were thrown to Australian servicemen and women who were already in the water.

My point was that the Greens are notorious for the lies that they tell.
See:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jun/07/indigenous-people-victims-of-green-fight-against-adani-mine-says-marcia-langton

Yes...AFTER they'd set fire to their own boat. They have us figured out long before they get here.

Paul,

I can't believe that you are so pathetic that you can't look this up yourself:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4587116/Left-wing-Antifa-Australia-attack-Andrew-Bolt-Melbourne.html
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/antifa-claims-my-attackers-were-its-family/news-story/f6ba913a910b12c0f8dde2ced9f3d810
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/new-footage-reveals-sheer-violence-of-andrew-bolt-attack-outside-melbourne-restaurant-20170608-gwmx7k.html
http://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/call-to-classify-group-behind-andrew-bolt-glitterbombing-a-terrorist-organisation/news-story/e0ea7881a20aeac10e3b0d89563cdbb7
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/is-melbourne-too-dangerous-for-conservatives-behind-the-leftwing-antifa-movement-that-attacked-andrew-bolt-20170608-gwnb6h.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/blogs/tim-blair/they-bolted-after-being-bolted/news-story/83d2f63a1f55c50807abbf1fa4d23164

Left whinge fascists initiated the assault.

Doog,

The conservative side of politics in Aus favour democracy, free speech and the removal of regulations. The left whinge side of politics prefer restrictions on free speech and a highly regulated society, and thus by your definition are far closer to fascists.

Dear Shadow Minister,

The following link may be of interest:

http://aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/tandi/481-500/tandi491.html

While far-right violent extremist groups have existed in Australia for almost a century, their criminal activities have traditionally been sporadic and relatively contained. Historically, the first far-right groups in Australia appeared post-WWI (including the ex-soldier’s fascist movement known as the White Army) and emerged more strongly in the late 1930s in the form of the Australia First Movement (whose membership was interned during World War II; Bessant 1995). Later came the explicitly Nazi Nationalist Socialist Party of Australia in the 1960s, the National Front of Australia and the Australian National Alliance during the 1970s and early 1980s, and National Action from the early 1980s onwards (Henderson 2002).

Although in 1969 an Australian associated with the evangelical and Millennialist Church of God set fire to the al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem (Lentini 2008), acts of systematic violence by the far-right did not appear consistently on Australian soil until the 1980s.