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View submission: Friday Free-for-All | January 24, 2025
Doing some early research for my PhD topic (the New Guard), and stumbled across a Baptist pastor who implied that the fascist Guard and socialist Australian Labour Army were two sides of the coming end times, and that the New Guard, fighting against Communism, were apart of the good Christians seeking Jesus' return. It's super weird to see, considering the Guard had only been active for like a month prior to the sermon, but I guess Sydney's radical political scene at the time was so dense that some people saw the end times in it.
I also found this great cartoon of the New Guard, and other contemporary organisations, here[1]. Truly, they were another scarecrow.
1: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/236605139?searchTerm=New%20Guard
There's nothing here!