The March for Australia Protest Was Terrifyingly… Normal
Editor’s Note: The Daily Declaration is publishing articles both supporting and criticising the March for Australia rallies. We are grateful to live in a democracy where the right to protest is protected. While the legacy media has sought to link all rally-goers with unsavoury elements at some events, it is clear that the vast majority of attendees were peaceful and do not hold extremist views.
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Sunday’s March for Australia had me completely baffled.
I’d heard whispers of a protest planned.
Rumours that thousands of people would be marching for radical, unthinkable ideas like national pride, secure borders, and the deeply offensive proposition that maybe mass immigration during a housing crisis isn’t a stroke of genius.
So, naturally, I was intrigued.
I tuned in, ready to witness the usual dystopian performance — flag burnings, anti-Semitic slogans disguised as social justice, pictures of Islamist militants held aloft by people who couldn’t find the Middle East on a map.
You know, the normal protests we have come to love and cherish in this country.
But there was none of that. Nothing.
Instead, the streets were filled with regular Australians. Talking. Calmly. With manners. Like savages.
It was disorienting. It was like watching a protest on mute, only to realise the volume was on and no one was screaming.
I squinted at the footage like a backpacker lost in North Korea.
So many normal, polite, deodorant-using Australians — speaking in complete sentences, smiling like they had jobs, and not blocking traffic with a papier-mâché image of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Completely Calm
It was disorienting.
Where was the “From the River to the Sea” chorus?
Where were the signs accusing Israel of genocide and our Prime Minister of being a war criminal?
Was this even a protest? Was this even Australia?
There were no Palestinian flags. Not even a stray one fluttering in from a climate rally down the street.
How were we supposed to know who the good guys were?
And the marchers — brace yourself — weren’t even wearing masks.
That’s right. Bare faces. Nose and everything. Like criminals.
I mean, what happened to the rules?
Everyone knows a proper protester must conceal their face to demonstrate moral authority.
No masks meant I could see expressions. Emotions. Humanity.
Australians OUTRAGED as neo-Nazis hijack Melbourne’s March for Australia rally: “It’s such a beautiful march. Just been taken over. Very sad.”
From @OzraeliAvi/@therealrukshan‘s stream. pic.twitter.com/2wBZFSvDEB
— Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) August 31, 2025
It was grotesque.
Speaking of which, some of them were smiling.
Really. I’m not making this up.
I saw people just walking around smiling like they weren’t participating in the collapse of civilisation.
No snarling, no spitting, no performance art involving fake blood. Just smiling.
It was sickening. What the hell was this?
Even worse, these people didn’t chant in rhymes.
What sort of protestors fail to understand that all legitimate protests come with poorly written, nursery-rhyme-style slogans?
It was un-Australian.
I waited patiently for someone to yell:
“No rights? No peace!
Stop the cops! Release the geese!”
Or at minimum:
“Hey hey! Ho ho! Something something’s got to go!”
But instead, I heard complete sentences. Thought-out ideas. Speeches that didn’t involve shouting the word “systemic” every five seconds.
What an absolutely breathtaking speech by @dr_mcinerney today in Sydney for the March for Australia. THIS is the way! pic.twitter.com/uILaW2mKFx
— British Australian Community (@Brit_Aus_Com) August 31, 2025
At one point, a speaker used a historical reference. I nearly blacked out.
It was so strange I began to suspect it was a trap.
Maybe this was one of those psy-ops. A government experiment to test what happens when people gather peacefully without smashing shop windows or tagging statues of Captain Cook with the word “coloniser”.
Confected Outrage
To confirm my suspicion, I turned to our nation’s most reliable moral compass: the media.
And thank heavens I did. They cleared everything up.
Commentators helpfully informed me that the crowd was made up of “far-right agitators”, which is how we now describe anyone with a mortgage and a memory.
The ABC bravely reported that “some protestors were seen waving Australian flags” — which, as we all know, is just one goose-step away from full-blown fascism.
Journalists warned of a dire new threat: a rising tide of people who think for themselves. You know, like terrorists. Terrifying. The last time that happened, we had a federation.
Thank God our Labor Government MPs were on hand to tell us what to think before we’ve even had time to think it.
Labor Senator Murray Watt wasted no time assuring the nation that the protest was “hateful and divisive” — a bold move, considering he said it before the protest actually happened.
That’s what leadership looks like: pre-emptive moral clarity.
Not to be outdone, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan reminded us that the marchers were “not representative of Australians.”
Well, of course not. These people were smiling. Some of them probably said “thank you” to police officers.
They were haters and dividers, she insisted.
You know, the kind of people who believe citizenship should mean something, that borders aren’t racist, and that a nation shouldn’t apologise for existing.
In other words, Nazis.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
Thank God they were Nazis. For a moment there, I thought Australians had rediscovered civic engagement which, as we all know, would have spelled the end for our fragile democracy.
Still, I can’t help but worry.
If these extremists are allowed to get away with events like yesterday, where does it end?
People might start asking questions. About power. About media. About 1,500 foreigners arriving every day when locals can’t even find a house to rent.
Next thing you know, they’ll want their country back.
That’s how empires fall.
So to everyone confused like me: if you didn’t recognise yesterday’s protest, don’t worry.
It’s not because you’re out of touch. It’s because, for once, the people in the streets weren’t paid to be there, didn’t hate their country, and weren’t trying to replace democracy with an activist commune in the forest.
Honestly, I barely recognised Australia yesterday either.
And for the first time in a while, that might not be such a bad thing.
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Thanks, James, for your summation of the marches held throughout Australia on Sunday. I’m laid low with a persistent flu or I would have been present.
We wouldn’t want people to actually think for themselves, these days, would we? Especially as the entire narrative of the Government, the opposition and the MSM is now so clearly built on lies. There’s the lie of Net Zero. The lie of how high levels of migration is always a good thing. The lie about our power prices being the cheapest. The lie about astronomical rent increases. The lie about the indoctrination that is going on under our noses at our children’s Schools. The lie about transgenderism being something good and natural and to be promoted. And especially the hideous lie that human life begins only when a woman actually wants to carry her child. She may abort her child right up to full term if she doesn’t want it.
Brilliant! Brilliant! Brilliant! Thank you for this; it’s a shot in the arm! But from another perspective, maybe there is a case for banning such events, because they pose a grave threat to the mental health of so many of our political class. Or could it be that political Leftism is the root cause of their paranoia and severe insecurity?
Yes James, I praise God too for these marches.
‘Commentators helpfully informed me that the crowd was made up of “far-right agitators”, which is how we now describe anyone with a mortgage and a memory.’
‘Far-right’ agitator is the new ‘cooker’.
Thanking God for your superb wit James….
Thanking God too for those who prayed for peaceful rallies
The marches were amazing and even far North Qld had one with smiling faces, a sense of unity, joy and peace and then a gathering at the end of the strand to hear what needs to be preserved in Australia e.g. protect the farmers, protect the shores of Australia, protect the mining industry, protect the family.
It also brought back memories of the ANZAC spirit and the young diggers off the land and indigenous young men too, who stood for a young democracy and fought to protect Australia and others, from the aggression of Hitler and the Nazi regime who were oppressing the Jews and and any nation who opposed them.
It felt so right and so peaceful- even the police were able to smile (just for a while as they had to watch out for any aftermath- but it never came)
The TV coverage elsewhere was another matter. I heard MPs were condemning the marches saying they were taking over by Neo nazis at every point and the footage was only of people being hit and falling down – others either alarmed, revengeful or aggressive….that was the biased version I saw time and again but then read good, truthful reports of the city marches afterward, from those who were attending – it was a totally different story. ..a positive one with no spin.
May there be a continued unified voice to help preserve our democracy and the nation, and Judeo-Christian values and to be allowed to defend our shores from other agendas, and have the right to carry an Australian flag. Amen
I am sorry to report since I wrote this I found out there were 3 Neo Nazi rep at the N Qld march and they did cause trouble (but I didn’t see then doing that) (see note lower done Sept 4) .
I think there’s a danger here, that in trying to counter the lies of mainstream media, that an overcorrection ends up leading to more lies. The marches may have been a great success in other places, but much of the Melbourne march was awful. Badly organised and inarticulate. I was in the thick of it and there was a lot of aggression and verbal abuse, with Neo Nazis causing trouble and attacking Avi Yemini and his crew. Admittedly, six arrests are not many, but there was considerable violence.
What is needed is a strong leader to coordinate this grass roots patriotic movement. Someone who like Nigel Farage can capture the sentiment of discontent and hope and lead it in the one direction. Without this leadership it will deconstruct in divisions. As someone said , 2 visions equals division.
I watched the entire gathering at Flinders St. But Guvmnt and mm defamed and slandered tens of thousands of peaceful, cheerful and anti-racist Aussies who just want our country back from communist tyrannical evil. That’s all.
Bless you James. Brilliant! I was in Brizzy. Beautiful day, beautiful people from every land and tribe they came to protest mass immigration which is destroying the country. I was wearing my new JESUS hat. Many many people “loved my hat!” I was right up at the stage to hear the main speaker say “Jesus is the King of Australia” and that “we wouldn’t need/have an immigration problem if we would stop aborting our children”. WOW! Everything I wanted to hear! I marched beside a beautiful indigenous lady and her 2 gorgeous kids. Precious! The speaker said that January is now Australia Month starting with Federation Day on the first to Australia Day! Great idea! I see Pauline spoke up in Canberra and I hear One Nation memberships went thru the roof over night .A lady with a backbone! It was a glorious day! Hallelujah!!! A REVIVAL of sorts. And Jesus was honoured!
Just adding an note to Sept 2 rally in far Nth Qld re disruption to the Sunday 31 August march
When the March was reviewed in the newspaper and by interview, it as evident that these 3 men in black stood beside and on front of 2-3 prominent politicians who were to speak that day after the march. People interviewed said they felt very uneasy with these 3 men present before the march, during it and afterwards, and knoew what they stood for (e.g. white supremacy, anti Jew, Hitler’s values).
The Politicians also felt uneasy as they (MPS) were standing for Australia’s democratic rights, protection from immigrants who have a dangerous agenda, stood for law and order at the march. Afterwards the MP’s tried to keep the peace and to avoid them but the 3 neo Nazis just stayed ‘in their space’ all the time looking for a chance to obtain media coverage and to draw attention to their neo Nazi cause (though hardly speaking they would nto move away).
There is no law in Qld (that I know of) to restrain the presence of neo nazi representatives…I am now praying a law will be passed so that these men in black with Nazi aspirations and white supremacy beliefs can be restrained and not be allowed to attend marches as they tend to want to take over, to gain all the attention, to provoke others who want an orderly meeting, to fight withanyone they disagree with and to be resistant or aggressive with police. They are a great threat potentially due to their record in each state of Australia.
Melbourne learnt a lesson about the behaviour of the Neo nazi group several years ago and outlawed them after finding out how aggressive they can be. Its seems The Victorian premier Jacinta Allen learnt first and how persistent they can be when the leader interupted here endlessly.
Sadly, this group is a great stumbling block to the marches.
they won’t care one iota about peaceful protests .People are foolishly naive actually thinking that the elected representatives are working for them No ,that’s not how the system works They view it as the people choosing them to then be reprebted by them ,the candidates for their views Not the electorates. In reality except for the fresh faces obviously and the well rehearsed old hands clutching their paper bags full of cash as described by Jacqui Lambie when appearing on ABC. s show with Julia Zemiro. Who do you think you are or where do you come from or something like that .