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National Action (Australia)
National Action was a militant Australian white nationalist group founded in 1982 by Jim Saleam, a far-right activist, and David Greason.[10][11] Saleam had been a member of the short-lived National Socialist Party of Australia as a teenager during the 1970s.[12] 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.[5] Saleam served jail terms for both crimes.[11] He pleaded not guilty to both charges, claiming that he was set up by police.[5][11] The group was disbanded following the murder of a member, Wayne "Bovver" Smith, in the group's headquarters at Tempe.[11] Saleam later became the New South Wales chairman of the Australia First Party,[11] 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.[13] See also
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