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'''James Saleam''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|eɪ|l|ə|m}}; born 18 September 1955) is an Australian political scientist, academic, political activist, and author noted for his involvement in [[Australian nationalism]], [[anti-globalism]], and the [[Opposition to immigration|anti-immigration movement]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hannan |first1=Ewin |last2=Baker |first2=Richard |title=Nationalists boast of their role on the beach |url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/nationalists-boast-of-their-role-on-the-beach-20051213-ge1f1h.html |access-date=21 May 2024 |work=[[The Age]] |date=13 December 2005 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="history">{{cite journal |title=Writing About the Extreme Right in Australia |journal=History Cooperative |date=7 September 2022 |url=https://historycooperative.org/journal/writing-about-the-extreme-right-in-australia/ |access-date=21 May 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Remeikis |first1=Amy |title=Pauline Hanson's One Nation directs preferences away from Labor in Longman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/10/pauline-hansons-one-nation-directs-preferences-away-from-labor-in-longman |access-date=19 May 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=10 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Goodrick-Clarke |first1=Nicholas |title=Im Schatten der Schwarzen Sonne |date=2012 |publisher=Marixverlag |location=Wiesbaden |isbn=9783843801706 |pages=85–86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flx4DwAAQBAJ |language=German |chapter=Neonazismus in den USA}}</ref> He is currently the chairman of the [[Australia First Party]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Drinkwater |first1=Dale |title="I fight the system and the system fights me", says Lindsay candidate |url=https://westernweekender.com.au/2016/06/i-fight-the-system-and-the-system-fights-me-says-lindsay-candidate/ |access-date=19 May 2024 |work=[[Western Weekender]] |publisher=Western Sydney Publishing Group |date=7 June 2016 |location=Penrith}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Fellner |first1=Carrie |title=Right wing extremist makes election bid in sleepy NSW 'cherry capital' |url=https://www.smh.com.au/nsw-election-2019/right-wing-extremist-makes-election-bid-in-sleepy-nsw-cherry-capital-20190322-p516q4.html |website=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=22 March 2019 |publisher=Nine |access-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> He came to prominence after founding [[National Action (Australia)|National Action]], a militant [[Australian nationalism|nationalist]] organization active in [[Sydney]] during the 1980s.<ref name="history" /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Whitford |first1=Troy |title=Combating Political Police: An Overview of National Action's Counterintelligence Program 1982–1990 |journal=Salus Journal |date=2013 |volume=2 |issue=1 |url=https://salusjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Whitford_Salus_Journal_Issue_1_Number_2_2013_pp_40-51.pdf}}</ref>

The son of Lebanese immigrants to Australia,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006-02-27 |title=Getting the fascist message into the Australian heartland |url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2006/02/27/getting-the-fascist-message-into-the-australian-heartland/ |access-date=2022-05-16 |website=Crikey |language=en-US}}</ref> Saleam attended [[Maryborough State High School]], where he developed his interest in politics and nationalism.<ref name=good>{{cite journal |last1=Bearup |first1=Greg |editor1-last=Whelan |editor1-first=Judith |title=The Audacity of Hate |journal=Good Weekend |date=26 September 2009}}</ref> By 1970, he joined the [[National Socialist Party of Australia]] and two years later he was arrested for the fire-bombing of a [[Maoist]] bookshop.<ref name=Crisp01/> During the 70s, Saleam joined and founded minor nationalist organisations, and in 1982 he founded National Action.

Following the foundation of National Action, Saleam quickly gained national notoriety in the [[Australian nationalism|Australian nationalist]] scene.<ref name="history" /> The organization advocated for a nationalist agenda and frequently engaged in tactics like [[direct action]].<ref name="history" /><ref name="WAP" /> National Action's activities often led to clashes with opposing groups and law enforcement. In 1989, while a member of said organization, Saleam was arrested for his involvement in orchestrating a shotgun attack on the home of an [[African National Congress]] representative in Australia.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jensen |first1=Erik |title=Right-wing genie out of the bottle |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/rightwing-genie-out-of-the-bottle-20090708-ddfk.html |access-date=19 May 2024 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co. |date=9 July 2009}}</ref>

Despite these setbacks, he continued to promote his nationalist ideology. In the late 1990s, after serving time in prison, Saleam obtained both an [[Master of Arts|MA]] and [[PhD]] from the [[University of Sydney]] by writing two [[theses]] on the [[far-right]] in [[United States|America]] and [[Australia]].<ref name="history" /> He would join the [[Australia First Party]] in 2002, where he worked as the secretary of the Sydney branch. By 2010, he became the chairman of the party.{{sfn|McSwiney|2024}} Under his leadership, the party has maintained a staunchly nationalist stance and campaigning on issues of [[national sovereignty]] and cultural preservation. Since then, Saleam has been a strong advocate of barring further immigration to preserve a "self-contained, predominantly white nation resistant to further immigration or watering-down of its culture".<ref name=white>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/02/28/1077677015074.html |title=White separatist takes on Marrickville |last1=West |first1=Andrew |date=29 February 2004 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |access-date=4 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="WAP" />

==Life==
=== Early years: 1955-1972===
Saleam was born and raised in [[Maryborough, Queensland|Maryborough]], [[Queensland]], 18 September 1955, to a family of Lebanese immigrants.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Crisp |first1=Lyndall |title=Harvest of Hate |agency=The Bulletin |publisher=Australian Consolidated Press |quote=“Saleam was born [on September 18, 1955] in Maryborough, Queensland, of Lebanese migrant parents. He joined the Nazi Party (the National Socialist Party of Australia) in 1970. Two years later, aged 17, he was found guilty of fire-bombing a Maoist bookshop [East Wind] in Brisbane and put on a four-year good behavior bond" |pages=42–49 |date=April 4, 1989}}</ref> His grandfather, George Saleam, was born in [[Greater Lebanon|Lebanon]] and fled his country at age 16, boarding a ship bound for [[Australia]].<ref name="good" /> After arriving to Marybourgh, George was classed as a white person.<ref name="good" /> Jim's parents divorced in the 1960s, when he was an eight-year-old.<ref name="good" /> After the break-up, his mother left with his sister to another town, leaving Saleam with his father. Saleam has described his father as an [[apolitical]] person, being not “academically minded or interested in politics or history”. However, he let his son read and study.<ref name="good" />

Saleam attended [[Maryborough State High School]], which at the time worked as a segregated boys and girls high school. At the age of 15, Saleam developed his early interest in politics, writing to “every conceivable political organisation in the country”, both from the [[left-wing|left]] and the [[right-wing|right]]. [[Malcolm Fraser]]’s election as PM led towards his exposure to [[nationalism]] and [[far-right politics]], after he realised “both sides were in cahoots and that there was a need for a [[Third Position|radical third way]]”.<ref name="good" /> According to Dr. Michael Monsour, a local doctor from Saleam's hometown, he developed certain fascination with the [[Nazis]] and was controversial for painting [[swastika]]s and portraying the [[roman salute]]. Despite being a troublemaker, Saleam was also described as "academically gifted". His final school exams were passed with ease, earning him a scholarship to the [[University of Queensland]].<ref name="good" />

In 1970, Saleam joined the [[National Socialist Party of Australia]].<ref name=Crisp01/> His role as a regular contributor to party funding earned him the nickname of  ‘Comrade Saleam’. He became an assistant editor of ''Stormtrooper'' and the ''National Socialist Bulletin'', were he often emphasised the ‘[[socialism]]’ in ‘[[National Socialism]]’.{{sfn|Greason|1994|}} As a NSPA militant, in 1972, Saleam firebombed a [[far-left]], [[Maoist]] bookshop in Brisbane and, two years later, he was found guilty and arrested.<ref name="green1">{{cite news |last1=Dixon |first1=Norm |title=Neo-Nazi thugs offer their services to Hanson |url=https://www.greenleft.org.au/1998/329/20576 |access-date=27 October 2024 |work=[[Green Left (Australian newspaper)|Green Left]] |issue=329 |date=19 August 1998 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080131104054/https://www.greenleft.org.au/1998/329/20576 |archive-date=31 January 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> His sentence banned him from having any association with the NSPA.<ref name="good" />

===Political activism: 1974-1982===
After his liberation from prison, Saleam moved to Sydney and enrolled at the Sydney University.<ref name="green1" />
In 1975, "much to his later chagrin", Saleam was photographed in full [[Nazi uniform]] at a public meeting.<ref name=moore>{{cite book|first=Andrew|last=Moore|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1995|title=The Right Road?: A History of Right-Wing Politics in Australia|isbn=019553512X|page=121}}</ref><ref name=list/> On [[Anzac Day]] 1982, he co-founded [[National Action (Australia)|National Action]] (NA), which eventually collapsed due to Saleam's convictions for property offences and fraud in 1984, possession of a prohibited article - a large nail-studded club in 1985, and for organising a [[shotgun]] attack in 1989 on [[African National Congress]] Australian representative [[Eddie Funde]],{{sfn|Saleam|1999|p=194}} for which he served three and a half years in prison.<ref name=Crisp01>{{cite news |last1=Crisp |first1=Lyndall |title=Harvest of Hate |agency=The Bulletin |publisher=Australian Consolidated Press |pages=42–49 |date=April 4, 1989}}</ref><ref name=WAP>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/no-apology-for-white-australia-policy/2008/01/11/1199988590134.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 |title=No apology for white Australia policy |last1=Gibson |first1=Jano |last2=Frew |first2=Wendy |date=12 January 2008 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |access-date=4 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="smh2012"/> 

After his release from prison, Saleam was awarded a [[PhD]] in politics from the [[University of Sydney]] by writing a thesis entitled ''The Other Radicalism: An Inquiry into Contemporary Australian Extreme Right Ideology, Politics And Organization 1975–1995'' (submitted in December 1999).{{sfn|Saleam|1999|p=1}}

Saleam was affiliated with the [[Patriotic Youth League]],<ref name="smh2012"/><ref name=hannan>{{cite web|author1=Ewin Hannan|author2=Richard Baker|title=Nationalists boast of their role on the beach |work=[[The Age]]|url=https://www.theage.com.au/news/national/nationalists-boast-of-their-role/2005/12/12/1134236003135.html|date=13 December 2005|access-date=17 May 2018}}</ref> and has been seen associating with [[neo-Nazi]] skinheads.<ref name=list>Several articles discuss Saleam's criminal convictions, contain photographs of Saleam wearing Nazi attire and describe Saleam as a neo-Nazi or former neo-Nazi:
*{{cite web|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/neonazi-vote-scores-a-boost-from-getup/news-story/8aaed380a28b40c47627a8f27e0c3d2d |title=Neo-Nazi vote scores a boost from GetUp! |last1=Packham|first1=Ben|date=17 July 2018|work=The Australian|access-date=26 July 2018}}
*{{cite web|url=http://junkee.com/one-nation-jim-saleam/167596|title=One Nation Will Preference A Former Neo-Nazi Ahead of Labor in Upcoming Byelection|last1=Clift|first1=Tom|date=12 July 2018|work=Junkee|access-date=26 July 2018}}
*{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/national/no-apology-for-white-australia-policy/2008/01/11/1199988590134.html|title=No Apology For White Australia Policy |last1=West|first1=Andrew|date=29 February 2004|work=Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=4 February 2013}}
*For historic photos of Saleam in Nazi Attire:
{{cite web|url=https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/west/lindsay-scramble-over-minor-and-independent-preferences/news-story/de2e222edec1926bde0e2fd6b276686e |title=Lindsay: Scramble over minor and independent preferences |last1=Petrinic|first1=Isabell|date=2 June 2016|work=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=26 July 2018}}
</ref>
In 2004, Saleam contested the [[Local government areas of New South Wales|NSW local government]] elections, and ran for [[Marrickville Council]] on an anti-refugee platform. In 2012, he ran for NSW local government election in the [[City of Blue Mountains]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-20499-128.htm |title=Lindsay, NSW - AEC Tally Room |access-date=6 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160805050629/http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-20499-128.htm |archive-date=5 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.katoombaleuraonline.com/2012/09/06/local-council-elections-australia-first-party-in-ward-one/ |title=Local Council Elections – Australia First Party in Ward One |work=Katoomba Leura Online |date=6 September 2012 |access-date=3 June 2016}}</ref><ref name=AECCook2013>{{cite web |url=http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionFirstPrefs-17496-112.htm |title=Cook, NSW |work=Election 2013 |publisher=[[Australian Electoral Commission]] |date=1 October 2013 |access-date=6 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102105303/http://vtr.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionFirstPrefs-17496-112.htm |archive-date=2 November 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Australia First Party===
Saleam was the Secretary of the Sydney branch of the [[Australia First Party]] (AFP) between 2002 and 2007, when he became its chairman, and sought to re-establish the party. In July 2009, he announced that it had reached its target of 500 members and was registering the [[New South Wales]] branch party with the [[Australian Electoral Commission]] (AEC). The party was reregistered in mid-2010, in time to contest the [[2010 Australian federal election|2010 federal election]]. [https://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registration_Decisions/2010/3740.htm]

AFP contested the [[2013 Australian federal election|2013 federal election]], Saleam standing in the [[Division of Cook|seat of Cook]] on a platform to end refugee intakes, running against [[Scott Morrison]]. He received 617 votes, or 0.67% of the vote.{{cn|date=March 2021}}

On 14 July 2015, the AEC deregistered the AFP due to its failure to demonstrate the required number of members. It was reregistered on 1 March 2016 as "Australia First Party (NSW) Incorporated".<ref>Registration and deregistration details:
*{{cite web |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/parties_and_representatives/party_registration/Deregistered_parties/aust-1st.htm |title=Australia First Party (NSW) Incorporated |publisher=[[Australian Electoral Commission]] |date=7 March 2016 |access-date=16 March 2016}}
*{{cite web|title=Deregistered/renamed political parties|url=http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Deregistered_parties/aust-1st.htm|publisher=Australian Electoral Commission|access-date=14 July 2015}}
*{{cite web |url=http://australiafirstparty.net/australian-identity/party-formation/ |title=Party Formation |publisher=Australia First Party |access-date=16 May 2018 |archive-date=16 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180516214209/http://australiafirstparty.net/australian-identity/party-formation/ |url-status=dead}}
*{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/rightwing-genie-out-of-the-bottle-20090708-ddfk.html|title=Right-wing genie out of the bottle|access-date=9 July 2009|first=Erik|last=Jensen|date=9 July 2009|work=Sydney Morning Herald}}
*[http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registration_Decisions/3740.htm AEC redirection page – Australian Electoral Commission<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

Saleam stood at the [[2016 Australian federal election|2016 federal election]] in the [[Division of Lindsay|seat of Lindsay]] and received 1068 votes or 1.2% of the vote. He stood for AFP in the [[2018 Longman by-election]], receiving 709 votes or 0.8% of the vote.<ref>Electoral results:
*{{cite news |url=https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/farrightwing-parties-after-your-vote-on-election-day/news-story/dea024a911e4e5bf2d8d6bb6fbd1f0b0/news-story/dea024a911e4e5bf2d8d6bb6fbd1f0b0 |title=Far-right-wing parties after your vote on election day |author=Murray, Oliver |date=26 April 2016 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph (Sydney)|The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=3 June 2016}}
*{{cite news |url=http://www.penrithcitygazette.com.au/story/3908733/saleam-in-election-16/ |title=Controversial Saleam to stand for Australia First in Lindsay |author=Pollard, Krystyna |date=19 May 2016 |work=Penrith City Gazette |access-date=3 June 2016}}
*{{Cite web|url=https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-22694-302.htm|title=House of Representatives division information|website=Australian Electoral Commission|language=en-AU|access-date=29 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817091618/https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/HouseDivisionPage-22694-302.htm|archive-date=17 August 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Saleam stood in the seat of [[Electoral district of Cootamundra|Cootamundra]], New South Wales, in the [[2017 Cootamundra state by-election|2017 by-election]] as an independent, though still a member of Australia First, as the party is not registered for state elections.<ref>{{cite news |last=Grey |first=Lachlan |url=http://www.cootamundraherald.com.au/story/4881854/dark-horse-emerges-for-cootamundra-by-election/|title=Australia First leader Jim Saleam to contest Cootamundra by-election in November|work=Cootamundra Herald|date=27 August 2017|access-date=10 September 2017}}</ref> He received 453 votes, 1% of the total. He again stood in the seat at the [[2019 New South Wales state election]] as an independent, receiving 0.95% of the vote. Saleam's platform included the reintroduction of the [[White Australia policy]] and opposition to Chinese immigration.<ref>[https://www.smh.com.au/nsw-election-2019/right-wing-extremist-makes-election-bid-in-sleepy-nsw-cherry-capital-20190322-p516q4.html Right wing extremist makes election bid in sleepy NSW 'cherry capital']</ref>

==Personal life==
Saleam married Jane Mengler in 1987. They had two children and divorced in 1994.<ref name="smh2010">{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/good-weekend-and-dr-james-saleam-20100802-113fu.html |title=Good Weekend and Dr James Saleam |date=3 August 2010 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |access-date=3 June 2016}}</ref>

==Electoral history==
'''Federal Parliament elections'''
{{Excerpt|Results of the 2013 Australian federal election in New South Wales|section=Cook}}
{{Excerpt|Results of the 2016 Australian federal election in New South Wales|section=Lindsay}}
{{Excerpt|2018 Longman by-election|section=Results}}
{{Excerpt|Results of the 2019 Australian federal election in New South Wales|section=Lindsay}}
'''state Parliament elections'''
{{Excerpt|2017 Cootamundra state by-election|section=Results}}
{{Excerpt|Results of the 2019 New South Wales state election (Legislative Assembly)|section=Cootamundra}}

==See also==
* [[Australia First Party]]
* [[Far-right politics in Australia]]
* [[National Socialist Party of Australia]]
* [[Reclaim Australia]]
* [[True Blue Crew]]
* [[United Patriots Front]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== Bibliography ==
*{{cite book |last1=McSwiney |first1=Jordan |title=Far-Right Political Parties in Australia |date=2024 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |location=New York |isbn=9781003848929 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2E3pEAAAQBAJ |access-date=24 May 2024}}
* {{cite thesis |last=Saleam |first=James |title=The Other Radicalism: An Inquiry Into Contemporary Australian Extreme Right Ideology, Politics And Organization 1975–1995 |publisher=Fisher Library, [[University of Sydney]] |location=[[Sydney]], Australia |year=1999 |url=https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/807/1/adt-NU20020222.14582202whole.pdf}}
*{{cite book |last1=Greason |first1=David |title=I was a Teenage Fascist |date=1994 |publisher=McPhee Gribble |location=Carlton |isbn=9780869142851}}

==External links==
* [https://archive.today/20121128165219/http://home.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/ Australian Nationalist Ideological, Historical and Legal Archive] maintained by James Saleam
* [https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/west/lindsay-scramble-over-minor-and-independent-preferences/news-story/de2e222edec1926bde0e2fd6b276686e Historic photo's of Saleam and other members of the National Socialist Party of Australia] News article featuring several historic photographs of Saleam wearing Nazi attire including a swastika arm band. 

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