Anti-Australia Day activist is shut down after demonstrators are urged to carry out disturbing act

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has called out a radical activist who encouraged followers to destroy monuments and disrupt celebrations on Australia Day.

Activist Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg encouraged demonstrators to burn heritage sites and destroy anything with colonial links, including ‘European trees’.

The shadow minister for Indigenous Australians warned her, and other demonstrators that Australia would not tolerate such violence.

‘Calls for violence on Australia Day should absolutely be condemned,’ Senator Price told Sky News on Monday.

‘We have seen all too recently in our country what happens when we fail to stop those who would resort to violent forms of activism early on.’

Ms Tuet-Rosenberg, who describes herself as a ‘queer, multi-racial woman of colour’, has put out the call to violence in several inflammatory social media posts.

‘It’s just over two weeks until invasion day. Go and play snatch the flag. Burn them all,’ one story shared to her Instagram read.

‘Someone go set fire to Cooks Cottage. Go and destroy monuments to colonisation. All of them. Chop down their European trees. 

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has called out a far-left extremist who encouraged followers to destroy monuments and disrupt celebrations on Australia Day

Highly controversial activist Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg encouraged violence on Australia Day

She told her followers to 'bring their lighters' to burn flags

Highly controversial activist Elsa Tuet-Rosenberg encouraged violence on Australia Day

‘Set fire to their heritage sites. Behead their statues and topple them at their base.

‘F*** up their dumb war memorials which glorify western imperialism while refusing to acknowledge the frontier wars. 

‘Universities, suburbs, streets, shops etc named after genocidal colonisers? F*** them up too!’

In another post, Ms Tuet-Rosenberg encouraged her followers to have ‘fun’ while disrupting celebrations on January 26.

‘Topping statues and burning monuments of genocidal colonisers is an absolute basic bare minimum, it is essentially just a bit of fun,’ her story read.

‘Go out this silly season and have as much fun as you can.

‘And don’t forget charge your grinder batteries and bring your lighters!’  

Senator Price implored Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to condemn these calls for violence on January 26.

Ms Tuet-Rosenberg (pictured) told her followers to target flags and historic monuments on Australia Day

Ms Tuet-Rosenberg (pictured) told her followers to target flags and historic monuments on Australia Day

‘I would expect the Prime Minister to publicly condemn calls for violence on Australia Day in the strongest terms,’ she said.

Ms Tuet-Rosenberg, last year doxxed  hundreds of Jewish businesses and artists.

In a series of almost 200 Instagram stories, she shared their private information and told her 8,000 followers to ‘let these f..king Zionists know no f..king peace’.

Ms Tuet-Rosenberg is also the co-founder of ‘anti-oppression and anti-racism training and consulting’ business, Hue.

The company lost its contract with the Australian Human Rights Commission to produce anti-racism training materials after Ms Tuet-Rosenberg’s behaviour came to light.

Despite the calls for disruption, 69 per cent of respondents to recent polling agreed with keeping the date of Australia Day on January 26.

The date of the national holiday has come under fire in recent years as it marks the day the First Fleet arrived in Sydney Harbour in 1788, beginning colonisation of the continent.

Supporters view the date as the beginning of modern Australia while critics claim it was the start of Indigenous people’s suffering under then English rule. 

Recent polling found 69 per cent of Australians supported Australia Day being celebrated on January 26

Recent polling found 69 per cent of Australians supported Australia Day being celebrated on January 26

Senator Price blamed the increased division in the community over Australia Day on Mr Albanese’s bungled Voice to Parliament referendum in 2023.

‘It gave people permission to push back against loud minorities who don’t represent the views of the majority, and we should be thankful for that,’ she said.

At least 81 councils across Australia will not host Australia Day citizenship ceremonies this year, ostensibly for ideological reasons while also giving themselves the day off.

It marks a sharp jump from just four councils who refused last year.

Mr Albanese in 2022 allowed councils to cancel citizenship ceremonies on Australia Day – a policy the Opposition has promised to change if elected this year. 

Assistant minister to the Prime Minister Patrick Gorman said Australia Day was a time to ‘respect, reflect and celebrate’.

‘Australia Day is a day to reflect on our complete and complex history, and acknowledge the past, respect and celebrate First Nations Peoples’ survival, resilience and enduring culture,’ he said.

‘As Australians, there is much of which we can be proud – our democracy, our shared values, the strength, diversity and generosity of our people and our beautiful natural environment.

‘Australia Day is about so much more than the events of one day – it is about who we are as a nation and what we aspire to be.’

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