The protesters displayed a banner reading “Abolish the Jewish lobby”, and they repeatedly chanted “blood and honour” \u2014 a slogan associated with the Hitler Youth.<\/p>\n
Minister for Home Affairs Tony Burke said “it was time to go home”.<\/p>\n
“If you are on a visa you are a guest. If you’re a citizen you’re a full member of the Australian family,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Like with any household, if a guest turns up to show hatred and wreck the household, they can be told it’s time to go home.”<\/p>\n
Information available online suggests Mr Gruter was employed by engineering and design firm Aurecon.<\/p>\n
The company did not respond to questions from ABC NEWS Verify about the cancellation of his visa.<\/p>\n
Unmasking the men who attended a Neo-Nazi protest at NSW parliament<\/a><\/p>\n Around 60 men attended a protest at NSW parliament organised by the Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network on Saturday. Without masks, it gave the ABC the opportunity to identify some of them. \u00a0<\/p>\n The company previously did not confirm Mr Gruter was an employee, but a spokesman said it was “looking into the matter”.<\/p>\n Mr Gruter and his wife arrived in Australia in early 2022, according to social media posts.<\/p>\n The posts suggested he entered on a visa which required sponsorship from an Australian business to work and stay in the country.<\/p>\n On Facebook, he was pictured wearing a silver bracelet engraved with the same Hitler Youth slogan shouted at the protest.<\/p>\n A picture of a bracelet taken from the social media of the wife of Matthew Gruter. The phrase “blood and honour” is linked to Nazis. (Supplied)<\/p>\n When ABC NEWS Verify asked Mr Gruter about the bracelet, and other matters, he responded: “Since when is it a crime to love and advocate for your own people?”<\/p>\n Do you know more?Email Michael Workman at workman00<\/a>@protonmail.com<\/a> or Matt Martino at mattmartino@protonmail.com<\/a>If you require more secure communication, please choose an option on the confidential tips page<\/a><\/p>\n Speaking before Mr Gruter’s visa was cancelled, NSW Premier Chris Minns flagged that changes to hate speech laws could be introduced to parliament as soon as this week.<\/p>\n “I want to make sure there’s a clear message from civic society, the NSW Police and political leaders that Nazis aren’t welcome,” he said.<\/p>\n “There’s no such thing as a part-time Nazi.” Chris Minns says there is “no such thing as a part-time Nazi”. (ABC News)<\/p>\n “You can’t hold down a job somewhere else in civic life and expect to be free from scrutiny by joining one of these horrible organisations,” Mr Minns said.<\/p>\n Counter-extremism expert Greg Barton previously told the ABC there was little that legislation could do to prevent the rise of far-right extremist groups like the NSN.<\/p>\n Loading…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South African man who attended a Neo-Nazi protest outside NSW parliament house has had his visa revoked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,78707,43,162722,78249,44,9801,26293,15387,41,39,42,40,22473,167370],"class_list":{"0":"post-290990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-cancelled","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-matthew-gruter","12":"tag-neo-nazi","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-parliament","15":"tag-rally","16":"tag-tony-burke","17":"tag-top-news","18":"tag-top-stories","19":"tag-topnews","20":"tag-topstories","21":"tag-visa","22":"tag-white-nationalist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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