The Ku Klux Klan established chapters in Australia for the first time. An Australian newspaper quoted Peter Coleman, the chapters’ founder, as saying that “there is a Jew under every rock” and that homosexuals are abnormal. Coleman was expelled from Australia’s extremist One Nation Party after party officials learned of his Klan activities.
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