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<\/p>\nMembers of ethno-nationalist group the National Workers Alliance have gatecrashed an event held by federal MP Tim Wilson, with the group’s leader shouting about immigration before police were called.<\/p>\n
Mr Wilson, the federal member for Goldstein and shadow treasurer, was hosting a forum titled “How do we build a respectful society?” at a hotel in Bentleigh in Melbourne’s south-east on Thursday evening when the disruption occurred.<\/p>\n
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Tim Wilson was hosting an event titled “How do we build a respectful society?”, which was interrupted. (ABC News: Brendan Esposito)<\/p>\n
Police said they were called to the event in relation to claims of “three males causing trouble”.<\/p>\n
“The men had left the premises prior to police attending \u2026 police are making further enquiries in relation to the incident,” police said.<\/p>\n
Video posted to X and reposted by the National Workers Alliance showed the group’s leader Matt Trihey speaking forcefully towards attendees.<\/p>\n
“What I want the politicians to do is address the biggest issue we have ever faced \u2014 crime and immigration,” Mr Trihey said.<\/p>\n
“No-one’s touching it because they’re too scared of being judged.<\/p>\n
“No-one’s touching it and they must if we are to survive. This is an existential threat to our people.”<\/p>\n
In response to questions from the ABC, Mr Trihey said he and three others were at the venue when they happened upon the forum by “pure coincidence”.<\/p>\n
“As the door was open and it was a public event I walked in and asked a question on immigration and the increasing crime rates,” he said in an email.<\/p>\n
He said he was not aware of any police investigation and that his group left when asked.<\/p>\n
The National Workers Alliance made headlines in 2024 after a speaker performed a Nazi salute<\/a> at one if its meetings. A magistrate later found that the gesture was made “mockingly” and that the speaker wasn’t intending to display loyalty to Nazism.<\/p>\n Mr Trihey has claimed<\/a> people with “European blood” face an “existential threat” from immigration. He last year organised<\/a> a March For Australia event.<\/p>\n Following Thursday’s event Mr Wilson wrote on social media that the meeting was “stormed by the CFMEU and Neo-Nazis”.<\/p>\n Mr Trihey has previously spoken at an event attended by members of the now-disbanded neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Network (NSN).\u00a0<\/p>\n He denies he is a Nazi or that he has ever been a member of any neo-Nazi organisation and said at the time he had been asked to give a speech at an event organised by White Australia, which was the name of the political party the NSN was seeking to establish before it disbanded.<\/p>\n Mr Trihey again denied having ever been a member of any neo-Nazi group following questions from the ABC.\u00a0<\/p>\n Matt Trihey has claimed people with “European blood” face an “existential threat” from immigration.\u00a0 (ABC News: Ben Knight)<\/p>\n A social media post from the National Workers Alliance on Thursday night said the organisation was “present” at the event and “simply asked questions that reasonable Australians want answers to”.<\/p>\n The National Workers Alliance also stated it was “not a Neo-Nazi organisation” and warned Mr Wilson of “defamation”.<\/p>\n In a further social media post on Friday morning, Mr Wilson said his staff were told that some of the people disrupting the event had been wearing CFMEU shirts.<\/p>\n “The men entered the room initially, stood up the back and began filming,” Mr Wilson said.<\/p>\n The attendance of people in CFMEU shirts has not been confirmed and the union has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n Mr Wilson declined to comment further.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of ethno-nationalist group the National Workers Alliance have gatecrashed an event held by federal MP Tim Wilson,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,254982,254983,44,58247],"class_list":{"0":"post-508321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-matt-trihey","11":"tag-national-workers-alliance","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tim-wilson"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508321","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=508321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Matt](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8224360668fce6efa4bf03b8de6c6467.jpeg\")
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