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Eric Butler was born on 7 May, 1916 in Benalla, Victoria, Australia, is an Australian activist. Discover Eric Butler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Occupation Political activist and journalist
Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 7 May, 1916
Birthday 7 May
Birthplace Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date of death 7 June, 2006
Died Place Victoria, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1916

Eric Dudley Butler (7 May 1916 – 7 June 2006) was an Australian political activist and journalist, who in 1946 founded the far-right Australian League of Rights, which he led until 1992.

He was known as a staunch anti-communist and virulent anti-Semite.

He was a member of the John Birch Society, the organization co-founded by Fred C. Koch, father of the billionaire Koch Brothers.

Butler was born in the Victorian country town of Benalla, although he lived most of his life near Melbourne.

1930

In the 1930s he became a follower of the British economist C. H. Douglas and his Social Credit theories.

Teichmann confronted Butler with his many explicit anti-Semitic statements from the 1930s and 1940s and challenged him to disavow them, a challenge which Butler evaded.

1938

From 1938 Butler wrote for the Australian Social Credit newspaper New Times.

Butler served in the Australian Army during World War II.

According to one of his obituarists: "He served as a gun sergeant for twenty months without leave in the Torres Straits, taught troops as an instructor at Canungra Jungle Training School for six months, transferred to the Officers Training School at Seymour, Victoria, and was honourably discharged at the end of the Pacific phase of the war."

By the time Butler left the army, his political activities were under surveillance by Australian security authorities, as documents in the Australian archives indicate.

1940

In July 1940 the Victorian publicity censor, Crayton Burns (father of Creighton Burns, a later editor of The Age), wrote: "I have taken steps to warn the provincial and country press that the activities of this gentleman and his assistants are being closely watched by the authorities. There is no doubt that the general trend of their propaganda is damaging to the financial side of the war effort."

1941

In December 1941, the Commonwealth's chief publicity censor, E.G. Bonney, banned a series of Butler's New Times articles, one of which described Soviet Russia as "a Jewish slave state ... controlled by international Jewish financiers in New York."

1945

In 1945, Attorney-General, Dr H.V. Evatt, began an inquiry into Butler's activities.

He told Parliament: "In the opinion of the Director-General of Security, Butler has written articles constituting an attempt to create adverse public reaction to war loan campaigns and to the war effort generally."

Butler was not charged.

1946

In 1946 Butler published The International Jew, in which he claimed that Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Curtin were covert communists, that the Russian Revolution was a Jewish plot and that the Nazi Holocaust was a myth. Butler's eulogist Nigel Jackson described this book as "an essay built around an analysis of the controversial Protocols of the Elders of Zion. In it Butler challenged the Jewish role in international finance and its connections with communism. Of all Butler's publications, this was perhaps the one which roused the greatest fury."

Butler founded the South Australian League of Rights in 1946, centred on the anti-bank nationalisation campaign, and subsequently other state branches were formed, before the national Australian League of Rights was established in 1960.

The League was never registered as a political party.

1947

This was hardly surprising in the wake of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly since the Protocols were well known in 1947 to be a forgery.

1949

In 1949 Butler began contributing articles on national and international affairs to the Melbourne morning newspaper The Argus, then a conservative paper, but when it was revealed that the articles were based on a League of Rights study course, the series was cancelled.

1951

Although Butler ran for the Australian House of Representatives (as an independent) in 1951, the League was not intended to be a political party.

Rather it was a lobby group and "grass roots" organisation, promoting Butler's mix of anti-communist, social credit, monarchist and pro-British ideas.

Besides the New Times, the League's many publications included the weekly On Target and the monthly Intelligence Survey.

1960

In the 1960s, the League garnered much unfavorable publicity when it was revealed that members were also participating in the Liberal and Country Parties.

The Country Party was a mainstream conservative rural party (now the National Party of Australia).

A close associate of Butler's, Arthur Chresby, was elected to Federal Parliament in Queensland as a Liberal.

This tactic achieved some success elsewhere, particularly in areas where small farmers were under economic pressure, such as Gippsland, the Riverina, the Darling Downs, the Yorke Peninsula and the Western Australian wheatbelt.

The League pamphlet They Want Your Land alleged that "international financiers" were trying to force Australian farmers off their land by manipulating commodity prices.

Successive Country Party and National Party leaders warned against League infiltration and League-controlled branches were occasionally disaffiliated.

Queensland Nationals Senator Ron Boswell was particularly outspoken in attacking League infiltration of the Queensland Nationals.

A Liberal federal MP, James Killen, was identified as a League supporter in the 1960s, and traveled to Europe with Butler in 1962, but later severed his connections with the League.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Butler devoted much time to promoting the anti-communist philosophy of white minority regimes in Southern Africa.

He traveled on multiple occasions to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and South Africa, then governed under apartheid.

Butler also served as a Far East correspondent for American Opinion, a magazine of the John Birch Society.

1972

In July 1972 Butler achieved some public attention when he debated Max Teichmann, senior lecturer in politics at Monash University, on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Monday Conference program.

The program highlighted the issue of League infiltration of the Country Party in the period before the December 1972 federal election, at which the long-serving conservative government was defeated.

The League formed a number of front organisations, including the Institute of Economic Democracy and Ladies in Line Against Communism (LILAC).

1990

In the 1990s, the League lost its position as the leading extreme right political organisation in Australia.

Butler complained that Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party had stolen his policies.

1992

Butler served as the League's National Director until his retirement in 1992.