It's not even election time in Australia yet, but there's already a surge in racist comments and astroturfing on Aussie subreddits. Almost always by One Nation voters.
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It's not even election time in Australia yet, but there's already a surge in racist comments and astroturfing on Aussie subreddits. Almost always by One Nation voters.

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People moving from New South Wales and Victoria is a case of white flight, according to these morons.
Also, I've covered the user NoLeafClover777 here:
💬 2 🔁 162 ❤️ 211 · Pattern recognition of a far right Redditor posing as a 'centrist' · If you spend any time on Australian subreddits lik
Guys, there are a lot of mentally unstable alt-right people who are astroturfing on Australian online spaces.
When you take a man, who is characterised by acute personal stress, self-imposed isolation, alt-right brainrot and financial precarity, you get user dark-dark-dark. On the surface, he voices the exhausting burden of modern economic survival, failures in online dating and personal setbacks. Rather than processing these struggles through proper help, or class-based lenses, he systematically externalises his problems and weaponises his anger into alt-right psychosis.
Alt-Right Psychosis and Digital Echo Chambers
He frequently describes Western civilization using apocalyptic historical analogies, such as calling modern Australia "Weimar Australia" to imply imminent moral and structural collapse. He also doesn't shy away from using "redpilled" terms like ""cultural Marxism" and "goyim"
Racism fixation and misinformation about the immigrant diaspora
A central pillar of his online identity is a relentless, obsessive hostility toward Indian immigration, during which he frequently resorts to falsehoods and demographic distortions.
💬 0 🔁 1 ❤️ 0 · And the mask slips to expose more racism. See how predictable and asinine this behaviour is? reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/
He outright lies by claiming that Indian immigrants operate as a coordinated, single-issue voting bloc deliberately attempting to subvert or colonise Australian democratic institutions.
He frames millions of individuals through crude, generalised stereotypes, characterising working class service workers as an imported "underclass" while ignoring official Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data confirming that the Indian diaspora comprises some of the country's most highly educated and skilled professionals.
He leans heavily into the Neo-Nazi dogwhistle of Great Replacement theory rhetoric, treating natural shifts in international migration as an intentional demographic erasure of white Australians.
Desiring the Dismantling of Australian Democracy
He dismisses mainstream Australian democracy, claiming that major parties (Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition) are part of a unified corporate-globalist syndicate designed to suppress native populations.
Rather than working within democratic institutions, he looks forward to authoritarian or radical structural changes, openly championing extreme policies like "mass remigration".
THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY USERS ASTROTURFING AUSTRALIAN ONLINE SPACES LIKE REDDIT, TO SPREAD BRAINROTTED ALT-RIGHT PROPAGANDA. THESE PEOPLE ARE DEEPLY UNWELL.
"White Nationalist here. I'm not voting One Nation."
Sure you're not, you slimy little weasel.
Reddit user 7978_ is one of the many right wing chuds to frequent the subreddit r/Aussie.
See my posts here to see just how this user amongst others spread white nationalist views and conspiracy theories including eugenics; along with his butt buddy KD--27.
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Racist and Neo-Nazi posts spreading freely on Aussie subreddits · Since the far right , Trump wannabe party, One Nation sta
💬 2 🔁 1 ❤️ 4 · Australia's far right wing party, One Nation, started gaining a little bit of momentum because the existing right wing part
2 month old profile, edgy troll with hidden posts, overactive, who also supports Australia's far right politician? Bot or not, it's astroturfing.
u/SheepHerdersCousin (link provides comment history via arctic-shift photon) This user exhibits the profile of a right-wing populist and political agitator within the Australian digital space. Their engagement is consistently ideological, adversarial and performative rather than conversational.
Political Identity: The user is a staunch supporter of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (ON) party. Their comments frequently praise the party and frame it as the solution to what they perceive as national decline.
Their discourse is defined by hostility toward the current Labor government ("Fuck Albo," "fuck fucking labour") and the Greens ("Fuck the greens lmao"). They frequently invoke the concept of "ordinary everyday Australians" as a collective they identify with, positioning themselves against what they view as out of touch elites, "progressives," and city based inner city mentalities.
Communication Style: The user does not engage in traditional, neutral debate. They use a highly confrontational, mocking tone (use of condescending terms like "champ," "mate," and "numpty.")
They rely heavily on image-based commentary (posting links to Reddit preview images) to make points or troll others. This is a common tactic for triggering emotional reactions from ideological opponents.
Psychological Engagement Pattern: The user frequently positions themselves as someone who sees the "writing on the wall" and believes they are engaging in "real" discourse, while characterizing the rest of the subreddit as an "echo chamber" or "insufferable."
They frame their views as being suppressed, claiming that people who label their opinions as "racist" or "stupid" are actually the ones creating the conditions for political shifts (like the rise of One Nation or Trump).
They appear to be part of a coordinated sub-group or movement within the community, evidenced by their mention of "some of the boys protesting from this sub." They view their Reddit presence as an extension of physical political action.
u/SheepHerdersCousin is a highly engaged political partisan who uses the platform as a tool to mock opposition, validate their chosen political movement (One Nation), and express deep seated resentment toward the current political establishment.

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One of the moderators of r/Australia is also a moderator on r/AustralianFascists and r/CirclejerkAustralia
r/Australia is the largest Australian country based subreddit. For a while I've had an inkling that r/Australia's content and comment quality had deteriorated, with more racism against the Indigenous and South/South-East Asians allowed (sometimes blatant, other times thinly veiled). While the mods of r/Australia aren't compromised yet, the decline in the sub's quality has been apparent.
As for r/CirclejerkAustralia, here's a good representation of it:
It's a sub where all the posts and "jokes" revolve aroud racism, glorifying Nazism, deriding Indigenous populations, and purging of non-whites and "undesirables".
On the r/Aussie subreddit, an article was shared of a tragic killing of a 15 year old - stabbed to death. Instead of discussing the tragedy, the usual people resort to racism and sexism once again. The race of the criminals haven't been released as they're teens, but it doesn't stop these people. No analysis, just screenshots.
Astroturfing, poor literacy and racism: Yet another hate fest on Aussie subreddits
Before I begin, this all stems from this Lowy Poll, as reported on Guardian: Share of people who say cultural diversity has been good for the nation plunges from 90% in 2024 to 73% in 2026, Lowy Institute survey finds. I read the Guardian piece about the Lowy Institute poll, and then I read the Reddit comments. They aren't talking about the same thing. This is narrative capture.
These users claim to be "concerned citizens" mourning the loss of "social cohesion," but they define cohesion as sameness.
This is a classic economic anxiety mask. It links the vague concept of diversity to livelihoods, without providing evidence of how a neighbour’s culture impacts their job prospects.
These comments use definitive, almost scripted language, labelling multiculturalism a failed experiment. The goal is to make an extreme opinion seem like the common sense majority view. Note the terms "mass immigration spam." It’s an dehumanizing label designed to reduce humans to junk. It’s designed to shut down empathy by framing human movement as a technical nuisance.
Any comment that claims the only reason someone supports diversity is because they are a bubble-dwelling elite who doesn't live in the impacted suburbs. This is a classic wedge tactic. It pits working-class Australians against migrants. It asserts that only the negative experiences of specific suburbs matter, while ignoring the macroeconomic data that immigrants often fill the labour gaps (in healthcare, transport, and construction) that keep those very suburbs functioning.
Note how they pivot from the poll's finding of "economic pessimism" (which is in the Guardian article) to "cultural invasion."
They are framing a decline in favourability as a rejection of the concept entirely.
Reddit post for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/1udc5ya/australia_undergoing_historic_decline_in_support/
And the mask slips to expose more racism. See how predictable and asinine this behaviour is?
To see how this user spreads racism and misinformation, see my post here. https://www.tumblr.com/risingmoontide/819369891112108032/an-example-of-how-easy-it-is-to-manufacture?source=share
Reddit comment for reference: reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/1u5u1y6/comment/oro5iub/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
An example of how easy it is to manufacture xenophobic panic on Reddit
This relates to the subreddit r/Australia this time, although this user also posts routinely on other Australian subreddits. r/Australia is the largest Aus subreddit, with compromised moderators who allow racism against select groups. This bad faith actor takes real news, twists it, and manufactures a racist conspiracy theory to blame immigrants. User is u/dark-dark-dark.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1u518om/early_childhood_educators_burnt_out_stretched_and/
Let's set aside the fact that recently, the men who were caught abusing children were Caucasian (see here, here). The ABC did run an investigation exposing how some fast-tracked childcare courses were being marketed as easy pathways to permanent residency for international students who were being pushed into centres with minimal oversight. It had absolutely nothing to do with "Indian IT workers."
ABC's Four Corners aired a separate, landmark investigation exposing how dark-web child predators were exploiting lax regulations to infiltrate Australian childcare centres. This was a systemic critique of background check loops and corporate negligence. The report did not blame or single out any specific nationality, nor did it mention Indian IT certificate holders.
This is where u/dark-dark-dark operates in pure bad faith. They took the word "visa" from the first story, the words "dark web predators" from the second story, and then invented a completely fake detail: "male Indians with IT certificates" to chain them together.
This is the modern blueprint for online xenophobia. Bad-faith actors don't always shout obvious slurs; instead, they build fake jigsaw puzzles out of real news headlines.
And the mask slips to expose more racism. See how predictable and asinine this behaviour is?
reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/1u5u1y6/comment/oro5iub/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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An example of how easy it is to manufacture xenophobic panic on Reddit
This relates to the subreddit r/Australia this time, although this user also posts routinely on other Australian subreddits. r/Australia is the largest Aus subreddit, with compromised moderators who allow racism against select groups. This bad faith actor takes real news, twists it, and manufactures a racist conspiracy theory to blame immigrants. User is u/dark-dark-dark.
https://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/1u518om/early_childhood_educators_burnt_out_stretched_and/
Let's set aside the fact that recently, the men who were caught abusing children were Caucasian (see here, here). The ABC did run an investigation exposing how some fast-tracked childcare courses were being marketed as easy pathways to permanent residency for international students who were being pushed into centres with minimal oversight. It had absolutely nothing to do with "Indian IT workers."
ABC's Four Corners aired a separate, landmark investigation exposing how dark-web child predators were exploiting lax regulations to infiltrate Australian childcare centres. This was a systemic critique of background check loops and corporate negligence. The report did not blame or single out any specific nationality, nor did it mention Indian IT certificate holders.
This is where u/dark-dark-dark operates in pure bad faith. They took the word "visa" from the first story, the words "dark web predators" from the second story, and then invented a completely fake detail: "male Indians with IT certificates" to chain them together.
This is the modern blueprint for online xenophobia. Bad-faith actors don't always shout obvious slurs; instead, they build fake jigsaw puzzles out of real news headlines.
Pattern recognition of a far right Redditor posing as a 'centrist'
If you spend any time on Australian subreddits like r/aussie or r/AustralianPolitics, you've probably run into NoLeafClover777. On the surface, they position themselves as an everyday citizen just worried about housing, corporate greed, and wages. Accounts like this successfully weaponize the housing crisis and a genuine hatred for billionaire CEOs to smuggle a hard nationalist border policy into mainstream spaces. They get you angry, and then use that anger to make you vote against migration. It is highly effective, completely calculated, and the definition of a wolf in a "politically homeless" sheep's clothing.
Culture-War Outrage Farming
Accounts like this rely heavily on "dog-whistle" news articles to stir up tribalism and nationalist anxiety without having to explicitly state their own prejudices.
(The post itself drew significant skepticism and heavily contested voting ratios).
Running Defense for Coordinated Astroturfing
When a community starts noticing an influx of brand-new accounts or bots spamming anti-immigrant rhetoric, genuine users usually push for moderation. Bad-faith actors, however, will fiercely defend these accounts under the banner of "free speech."
The Left-Wing Shield (Economic Populism)
This is their primary weapon. To avoid being clocked as right-wing, they frame immigration entirely through the lens of class warfare, corporate greed, and billionaire exploitation. By using language that sounds inherently left-leaning, they get mainstream readers to nod along before slipping in the anti-immigration conclusion.
The "Politically Homeless" Centrist Routine
They start threads explicitly claiming to feel alienated by all major political parties. They mention voting for independent or minor environmental platforms (like the Sustainable Australia party) to look reasonable, neutral, and harmless.. Then they pull the rug.
Weaponizing Legitimate Political Cynicism
Instead of arguing from a place of prejudice, they point at broken pre-election promises regarding immigration numbers. This allows them to frame their anti-immigration stance as a completely rational, data-driven defence against political betrayal.
Bad faith actors spreading dissent and far right views.
On the subreddit r/Aussie, topics on immigration, women's rights and ingenious Australians are common. But as of late, with the increased attention on far right political parties in Aus, several suspicious accounts have started appearing. Hidden post histories, weird usernames and using inflammatory responses.
Here's one such case: Danny_Metal. User profile is 7 years old, with very few comments and karma. User suddenly appeared on r/Aussie with this take:
/r/aussie/comments/1tj8nv8/comment/on0yh07/?screen_view_count=3
Who calls themselves a one of the good immigrants? And also calls for deportations, which would include him? Lack of self awareness and self contradiction aside, this is a very fake way of talking and classifying oneself. This reeks of astroturfing and larping. No person who's right in the head speaks like this unless they have an obvious agenda.
Racist and Neo-Nazi posts spreading freely on Aussie subreddits
Since the far right , Trump wannabe party, One Nation started gaining some traction - mostly due to our cancerous media landscape and generous donations from Australian billionaire Gina Reinhart - there have been a large increase in the frequency of right wing posts on Aussie subs. Some are bots, some are bad faith actors.
Australia's far right wing party, One Nation, started gaining a little bit of momentum because the existing right wing party, the Liberals, lost the last election and have been bleeding votes to ON.
ON is also being funded heavily by billionaire Gina Rinehart. Since then, on sites like FB and Reddit, there have been a flurry of bot activity, literally spreading white nationalist, Neo-Nazi, culture war rhetoric, who just happen to support ON talking points and policies. Here's one such example. Users 7978_ and KD--27 have been extremely active as of late z talking about the same right wing talking points, non-stop.
This is on r/Aussie right now. https://www.reddit.com/r/aussie/comments/1u1wjis/european_immigration/

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