Australians Against Further Immigration

Political party

Australians Against Further Immigration
Founder	Dr. Rodney Spencer Robyn Spencer
Founded	1989
Dissolved	2008
Ideology	Australian nationalism Right-wing populism Anti-immigration
Political position	Far-right

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Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI) was an Australian far-right political party founded by radiologist Dr. Rodney Spencer and his wife Robyn, the parents of actor Jesse Spencer. The party described itself as "eco-nationalist",^[1] was opposed to mass immigration and aimed for zero net migration.^[2] The party was founded in 1989, registered in 1990, and ceased to exist in 2008.^[3]

AAFI stood candidates at both state and federal level, but never won a seat. The party said it was a mainstream organisation, and sought to distance itself from extremist organisations such as the Australian League of Rights and from the Citizens Electoral Council.^[3] In 1994, Franca Arena, then a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, denounced the party in the New South Wales parliament.

In by-elections in Mackellar and Warringah (safe Liberal seats on the Northern Beaches of Sydney) in 1994, Labor MP Graeme Campbell urged electors to vote for Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI).^[4]

The party was deregistered by the Australian Electoral Commission in December 2005, as lacking the minimum 500 members required to be registered as a political party.^[5] It contested the 2007 New South Wales state election, but was also deregistered at the state level not long after.^[6]

Federal parliament

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	+/–
House of Representatives
1993	3,587	0.03(#13/15)	0 / 150	0
1996	73,023	0.67(#6/18)	0 / 150	0
2001	12,033	0.10 (#11/20)	0 / 150	0

Election year	# of overall votes	% of overall vote	# of overall seats won	# of overall seats	+/–
Senate
1990	19,439	0.20(#12/17)	0 / 40	0 / 76	0
1993	46,464	0.44(#9/19)	0 / 40	0 / 76	0
1996	137,604	1.26(#6/22)	0 / 40	0 / 76	0
2001	21,012	0.18(#18/29)	0 / 40	0 / 76	0
2004	11,508	0.10 (#23/30)	0 / 40	0 / 76	0

References

^ "Anti-immigrants with a green tinge". The Sydney Morning Herald. 21 March 2003. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
^ "Document - 'Manifesto', Australians Against Further Immigration, circa 1990". Museums Victoria Collections.
^ ^a ^b Lyle Allan (1994), 'Immigration and the Werriwa By-Election,' in People and Place, Vol.2, No.1, p.55
^ James Jupp (2002). From white Australia to Woomera: the story of Australian immigration. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-521-53140-5.
^ "Media Release 2006: Deregistration of Australians Against Further Immigration". Australian Electoral Commission. Retrieved 26 September 2011.
^ fightdemback.org Archived April 9, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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