Ku Klux Klan Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Oceania === In Australia in the late 1990s, former [[One Nation (Australia)|One Nation]] member Peter Coleman established branches throughout the country,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/358783.stm|title=Ku Klux Klan sets up Australian branch|date=June 2, 1999|work=BBC News|access-date=July 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004214423/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/358783.stm|archive-date=October 4, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Ansley|first=Greg|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=7865|title=Dark mystique of the KKK|date=June 5, 1999|newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|access-date=July 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214155130/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=7865|archive-date=February 14, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> and circa 2012 the KKK has attempted to infiltrate other political parties such as [[Australia First Party|Australia First]].<ref name="smh">{{cite news|last=Jensen|first=Erik|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/we-have-infiltrated-party-kkk-20090709-der4.html|title=We have infiltrated party: KKK|date=July 10, 2009|newspaper=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=July 19, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426025511/http://www.smh.com.au/national/we-have-infiltrated-party-kkk-20090709-der4.html|archive-date=April 26, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> Branches of the Klan have previously existed in [[New South Wales]]<ref name="smh"/> and [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]],<ref name="smh"/> as well as allegedly in [[Queensland]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/killing-raises-ku-klux-klan-link-queensland | title=Killing raises Ku Klux Klan link in Queensland | Sovereign Union - First Nations Asserting Sovereignty | access-date=February 14, 2023 | archive-date=February 14, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230214054925/http://nationalunitygovernment.org/content/killing-raises-ku-klux-klan-link-queensland | url-status=live }}</ref> Unlike in the United States, the Australian branches did not require members to be Christian, but did require them to be white.<ref name="smh"/> A Ku Klux Klan group was established in [[Fiji]] in 1874 by white American and British settlers wanting to enact White supremacy, although its operations were quickly put to an end by the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|British]] who, although not officially yet established as the major authority of Fiji, had played a leading role in establishing a new constitutional monarchy, the [[Kingdom of Fiji]], that was being threatened by the activities of the Fijian Klan, which owned fortresses and artillery. By March, it had become the "British Subjects' Mutual Protection Society", which included [[Francis Herbert Dufty]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gravelle |first=Kim |title=Fiji's Times: A History of Fiji |publisher=Suva: The Fiji Times |year=1988 |pages=120β124}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ali |first=Ahmed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K4U9Pg1K9hIC&q=Klan |title=The Federation Movement in Fiji, 1880β1902 |date=2008 |isbn=978-1440102158 |page=7 |publisher=iUniverse |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=7 June 2020 |title=Discovering Fiji: Cakobau and the Ku Klux Klan |language=en |url=https://www.fijitimes.com.fj/discovering-fiji-cakobau-and-the-ku-klux-klan/ |access-date=2022-06-25 |archive-date=October 27, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221027175021/https://www.fijitimes.com.fj/discovering-fiji-cakobau-and-the-ku-klux-klan/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=van Dijk |first=Kees |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lnAyBwAAQBAJ&q=%2522British%2520Subjects%27%2520Mutual%2520Protection%2520Society%2522%2520klan&pg=PA69 |title=Pacific Strife: the great powers and their political and economic rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870β1914 |date=2015-03-14 |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9048516193 |page=69 |language=en}}</ref> In the 1920s, the Klan had been rumoured to exist in [[New Zealand]].{{sfn|Chalmers|1987|p=319}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page