The Australian Citizens Party’s National Secretary, Craig Isherwood, issued a release in response to the exposé of the Canadian Parliament’s glorification of a Ukrainian Nazi, documenting Australia’s harboring of leading Ukrainian Nazis, and that they have been glorified by several governments. “Australia has the same problem, which nobody in Parliament or the media is talking about,” Isherwood wrote. “In supporting Ukraine with close to $1 billion since February 2022, the [Scott] Morrison and now [Anthony] Albanese governments have, like Trudeau, also promoted outright Nazis in Australia.” Morrison, on the day before Russia launched the Special Military Operation, bragged that he had spoken to Stefan Romaniw, “who heads up the Ukrainian community here in Australia….” Morrison than gave a $450,000 grant to Romaniw’s Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organisations (AFUO) as support for their efforts to settle Ukrainian refugees. Albanese also proudly met with Romaniw.
Isherwood asks, “So who are Stefan Romaniw and the AFUO? Ask other Ukrainians in Australia, such as the Australian Ukrainian Congress, and they will tell you bluntly—they are Nazis.” For 13 years (2009–2022) Romaniw was the worldwide Chairman of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists-Bandera (OUN-B), founded by Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera during WWII.
Isherwood continues: “One of the member organizations of Romaniw’s AFUO named on its website is the Brotherhood of Ex-Servicemen in Australia; the Ukrainian version of the name on the website, however, is the Brotherhood of the 1st Division of the UNA, meaning the Ukrainian National Army. The UNA comprised the very same Nazi Waffen SS 14th Galicia Division which included the Nazi veteran applauded in the Canadian Parliament.”
