Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI) was an Australian

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political party which described itself as " eco-nationalist", was opposed to mass immigration and aimed for zero net migration. The party was founded in 1989 and registered in 1990, and ceased to exist in 2008. AAFI stood candidates at both state and federal level, but never won a seat. The party said it was a mainstream organisation, and sought to distance itself from extremist organisations such as the

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and from the

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.Lyle Allan (1994), 'Immigration and the Werriwa By-Election,' in ''People and Place'', Vol.2, No.1, p.55 In 1994, Franca Arena, then a

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member of the

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, denounced the party in the

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parliament. In

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s in Mackellar and

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(safe

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seats on the

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) in 1994, Labor MP Graeme Campbell urged electors to vote for Australians Against Further Immigration (AAFI). The party was deregistered by the

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in December 2005, as lacking the minimum 500 members required to be registered as a political party. It contested the

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, but was also deregistered at the state level not long after.fightdemback.org

Federal parliament

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