Fight dem back has fast become an invaluable resource in the fight against race-hate organisations in Australia and New Zealand.

The first we knew about the Toowoomba incident was when some concerned locals came to us via Google and asked for our assistance.

We’ve done what we can.

Net closes on racists

14.07.2005

By Susan Searle susans@thechronicle.com.au

NAZI hunters are using the Internet to track white supremacists and believe Toowoomba’s hate mail campaign is the work of a Crows Nest man.

The online hunt has unearthed an Internet alias, an age, occupation, and personal detail down to a swastika on his motorcycle and a curious affiliation with a Returned Services League.

Mat Henderson-Hau, the campaign co-ordinator Fight Dem Back!, is missing one key element in exposing the culprit — the man’s name.

His group’s focus stems from the distribution of a brochure promoting white women as an endangered species and attached pamphlet, The Nationalist, subtitled The Voice of White Pride Coalition of Australia (WPCA).

A Harlaxton post office box and an offshore website are the listed contacts.

“Our specialty is the online surveillance of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and the Ku Klux Klan and yes, the WPCA is one of our main focuses. They make a habit of stickering my street and surrounds on a regular basis,” Mr Henderson-Hau said.

Most recently the 29-year-old man’s car was extensively vandalised. Death threats, he says, are not uncommon.

“We don’t want these people thinking they can go around putting things in people’s letter boxes, or putting up posters, and for there to not be a reaction to it.

“We’ve already got them online bragging about what they’ve done in Toowoomba,” he said.

The WPCA yesterday deactivated access for new members to prevent infiltration of its website.

Advocacy and Support Centre barrister Dan Toombs ruled the material was a contravention of the Racial Discrimination Act.

Executive officer of the Social Justice Commission for the Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba Mark Copland was appalled.

And the pair have been pondering the next step.

Meanwhile, Mr HendersonHau, and his band of 300 Fight Dem Back! surfers, are trailing footprints over the Internet.

“The Internet changes everything — he’s up there is South-East Queensland, I’m down here in Sydney — I can still have an effect on what he does and these people need to realise that,” he said.

He says he is aware of a KKK presence in southern Queensland. Any information can be submitted anonymously via the Internet site www.fightdemback.com