This should be no surprise to anyone.
The MFA was strongly connected to known White Nationalists from day 1. They've only gotten more comfortable and let the mask slip. Luckily their second event was far smaller than the first, but we must all prepare for and counter their attempted revival next week, especially now that they can falsely claim that the Nazis are gone.
Some quick snippets outlining the breadth of this; the article goes into stronger evidence for each case:
Perth MFA event organiser Baylie Bergroth, who ABC NEWS Verify unmasked in August last year after he shared pro-Hitler and antisemitic posts on social media, has since publicly encouraged people to join White Australia [ - the political arm of the Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network].
An administrator for the official March for Australia Facebook group, who goes by the name Dylan D'Villain, posted a link to the now-defunct White Australia website to the group on December 15 in response to the Bondi attack. "There is only one organisation that directly tackles this issue head-on, with the only sane and workable solution there is," he said.
After the NSN announced it would disband, MFA's national organiser Bec Walker [who is also the Sydney organiser] reposted a video of convicted racist Blair Cottrell on X. In the video, Mr Cottrell, who has regularly been photographed and filmed with Neo-Nazis, accused the government of "moving the goalposts" when the NSN was "about to win". [...] In October, ABC NEWS Verify also revealed footage that appeared to show the rally's national organiser, Bec Walker, coordinating with the NSN over who should hold the Sydney event's main banner.
ABC NEWS Verify has uncovered that Matt Trihey, who organised MFA's October 19 event in Melbourne last year, attended and gave a speech at the NSN's national conference in August last year. [...] Excerpts of his speech were posted to the Facebook account of the National Workers Alliance, an ethno-nationalist organisation that Mr Trihey leads.
ABC NEWS Verify can reveal another marshal at a previous MFA event took part in a Neo-Nazi protest outside NSW parliament in November. Zachery Hook was a marshal at the MFA Canberra event on August 31. Alongside Oscar Tuckfield, he is the second marshal to be positively identified in photographs taken from the NSW parliament protest.
Dr McSwiney said that some members of the NSN had a more covert presence at the first marches in August, alongside its members marching in uniform and giving speeches. "Many of them attended in plain clothes … the idea was to sort of blend in and connect with people," he said. [Tom Tanuki made a video shortly after the first rally documenting this in detail]
Dr McSwiney said that while the NSN was gone, we had not seen the back of its leaders or its members.
"There's still plenty of spaces for these people to involve themselves in organised racist activism outside of their own formal organisation. So their attendance at past and future March for Australia rallies would be one of those," he said.
"I'm sure at some point in the future they will launch a new organisation, and they'll tone down the national socialism of it and focus on something that is perhaps more palatable or certainly less likely to fall foul of various hate legislation."