The issues that were discussed at the G20 summit (and protested outside) in Melbourne last Saturday don’t really have much to do with FDB, unless it were to turn out that the Governor of the RBA was a closet klansman (he’s not).

Nevertheless, we sent a wee cadre along to look out for any fash who might seek to cause trouble.

An opinion piece in the Sunday Herald Sun reported a contingent of neo-Nazi “skinheads” - complete with swastika patches - were amongst those responsible for the isolated violence. As with much of the other reporting of the event, FDB has concluded that this is exaggerated.

We counted:

A small contingent of known fascist youths with classy matching chequered masks who sang White Riot by The Clash at the police.
A bloke with a British NF shirt (go back to your own country, son)
And a bloke with an unfortunate electronics geek shirt that appeared to feature a swastika but actually featured a bizarre electronics circuit. Dude, get a new t-shirt.
And a few other usual suspects - You know who’s really meeting in there? The Jews!

So yeah - the papers may have gotten a bit ahead of themselves on the Nazi count. If it’s any consolation, the masked up fash were involved in the throwing of perishable goods and magazines (??) at the police.

The report that FDB’s Dr. Cam wrote for Crikey as their Riot Reporter is available for viewage here.