20 Facts About Jim Saleam

James Saleam is an Australian far-right extremist who is currently the chairman of the Australia First Party.

Jim Saleam came to prominence after founding National Action, a militant white nationalist organization active in Sydney during the 1980s.

The son of Lebanese immigrants to Australia, Jim Saleam attended Maryborough State High School, where he developed his interest in politics and nationalism.

In 1989, while a member of said organization, Jim Saleam was arrested for his involvement in orchestrating a shotgun attack on the home of an African National Congress representative in Australia.

Jim Saleam would join the Australia First Party in 2002, where he worked as the secretary of the Sydney branch.

Jim Saleam has been a strong advocate of barring further immigration to preserve a "self-contained, predominantly white nation resistant to further immigration or watering-down of its culture", and has supported reintroducing the White Australia policy.

Jim Saleam was born and raised in Maryborough, Queensland, 18 September 1955, to a family of Lebanese immigrants.

Jim Saleam's grandfather, George Saleam, was born in Lebanon and fled his country at age 16, boarding a ship bound for Australia.

Jim Saleam's parents divorced in the 1960s, when he was an eight-year-old.

Jim Saleam attended Maryborough State High School, which at the time worked as a segregated boys and girls high school.

In 1970, Jim Saleam joined the National Socialist Party of Australia.

Jim Saleam became an assistant editor of Stormtrooper and the National Socialist Bulletin, where he often emphasised the 'socialism' in 'National Socialism'.

Jim Saleam's sentence banned him from having any association with the NSPA.

In 1975, in Brisbane, Jim Saleam was pictured by an Australasian Spartacist photographer in an anti-Pinochet demonstration organized by the NSPA, wearing a swastika armband.

Jim Saleam was affiliated with the Patriotic Youth League, and has been seen associating with neo-Nazi skinheads.

In 2004, Jim Saleam contested the NSW local government elections, and ran for Marrickville Council on an anti-refugee platform.

Jim Saleam was the Secretary of the Sydney branch of the Australia First Party between 2002 and 2007, when he became its chairman, and sought to re-establish the party.

AFP contested the 2013 federal election, Jim Saleam standing in the seat of Cook on a platform to end refugee intakes, running against Scott Morrison.

Jim Saleam stood in the seat of Cootamundra, New South Wales, in the 2017 by-election as an independent, though still a member of Australia First, as the party is not registered for state elections.

Jim Saleam's platform included the reintroduction of the White Australia policy and opposition to Chinese immigration.