Australian Fascism and Gerard Henderson

Gerard Henderson is a right-wing skirmisher who heads up The Sydney Institute, a conservative think-tank which organizes guest-speaker lectures, and publishes a journal and a magazine. The Institute is supported by corporations which Henderson seems coy about identifying; sponsors have reportedly included AMP, Boral, BT, Macquarie Bank, Shell. A major function of the Institute seems to be to act as a vehicle for Henderson's diatribes against the Australian Left, reminiscent of Cold War politics.

Henderson has worked his way through various institutions of the Australian Right, beginning as an employee of the Catholic anti-communist critic of the Australian Left, B.A. Santamaria, and his National Civic Council. It was here Henderson imbibed the politics of anti-communism, cutting his teeth as a propagandist defending Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War and attacking the radical student and anti-war movements of the 1960s.

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