Rosemary Sisson

The National Front of Australia was officially founded on 3rd June 1978 in Melbourne, with Rosemary Sisson becoming its leader, and established a branch in Brisbane, as well as a short-lived branch in Sydney [1].

The organisation was founded under the auspices of the National Front in the United Kingdom (then led by John Tyndall), which had parented other National Front organisations in New Zealand and South Africa [2] [and possibly other White countries in the British Commonwealth?]. There was a sense of ideological, if not practical, co-operation between the several National Fronts. The NFA's periodical, Frontline, was - as its masthead stated - the "Magazine of the National Fronts of Australia and New Zealand", and published articles from the British NF.

The NFA promoted the ideal of a close-knit British Commonwealth of white nations, under the British Crown, with the monarchy to operate on a less British-orientated basis - instead spreading its interests equally amongst the countries of the white Commonwealth [3].

When the UK's National Front split, with Tyndall forming the British National Party in April 1982, the NF in Australia supported the BNP [4].

The National Front of Australia wound up its operations in 1984 [5].