I'm pleased that Australians are figuring out that @Lauren_Southern's presence on Sky News means they have a white nationalist on their teevees. Here's a little more history of her embrace of the racist right.
Southern was a kind of celebrity presence during the April 15, 2017, riot in Berkeley, CA, that was in fact the very first event organized by the Proud Boys. She had a PB security detail that day.
Accompanying her that day was Brittany Pettibone, who spoke to the crowd of right-wing extremists.
Southern and Pettibone teamed up a little later to lead a truly disgusting campaign to attack refugees in Europe. Here's a video the two of them made, giggling about their campaign.
https://twitter.com/DavidNeiwert/status/1124829031990317056?s=20
Pettibone is now married to Martin Sellner, the Austrian who leads Europe's white-nationalist "Identitarian" movement. He was recently featured in that NYT piece about how European neo-Nazis drew inspiration from the 1/6 Capitol insurrection.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/24/world/europe/capitol-far-right-global.html
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