‘Australia Marches’ Tour Heads to Perth With Call to End Mass Migration

A grassroots campaign calling for the end of “mass migration” and foreign lobbying in Australia will arrive in Perth this weekend as part of an ongoing national tour to all the capital cities.

Scott Challen, the head of the Australian Lobby Group, which organises the “Australia Marches,” dispatched a semi-trailer to tour the country.

“We’re currently undertaking a 10-week national roadshow, taking our purpose-built rally truck through regional Australia before finishing with major capital city events,” Challen told The Epoch Times.

“We’ve already travelled through Queensland and the Northern Territory, meeting thousands of Australians along the way.”

Perth will host the next event on Oct. 18, starting at Langley Park at 1 p.m. Rallies in Adelaide, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra will then follow.

“What makes this story interesting is that we’re not a political party,” Challen said.

“We’re building an independent, grassroots advocacy organisation that aims to give ordinary Australians a stronger voice in the national policy debate.”

Challen wants governments to act seriously on cutting migration, starting with deporting illegal residents.

“Australia has 2.9 million temporary visa holders right now, and legitimately some of them should be here,” he said.

“But there’s … people that can leave this country today and take a huge amount of pressure off the housing market, off the cost of living, and try and rectify this economy.”

Challen also expressed his disappointment with media.

“We can’t get mainstream media to cover these events,” he said. “They don’t want to talk about it anymore. But the media will continue talking about immigration.

“They don’t want to talk about the protests. They want to talk about immigration, but they don’t want to acknowledge that people are angry enough to get out and protest about it still.”

Challen said his team have worked to build communication with the public outside of media.

“I would expect at least 1,000 in Perth, but we’ll see how we go.”

Net overseas migration is forecast to reach 1.22 million over the five financial years from 2025–26 to 2029–30, according to budget figures.

Recent data revealed Indian-born migrants are now the largest new cohort of residents in Australia with 971,020 individuals by 2025, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Meanwhile, demographers said Sub-Saharan Africans would likely be the next major source of migrants to Australia in coming decades.