Wild scenes as far-left protesters protest Elon Musk outside Tesla’s Australian headquarters

By ZAK WHEELER FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

Published: 14:46 BST, 11 April 2025 | Updated: 15:31 BST, 11 April 2025

Protesters tore up a cardboard model of a Tesla Cybertruck before telling the company’s CEO to ‘go to hell’ outside its Australian headquarters. 

Dozens of members from university groups and student representative councils gathered outside Tesla’s Australian headquarters in Alexandria, Sydney, to protest Elon Musk on Friday.

Around 50 people attended the protest where activists held up signs calling Musk a Nazi and encouraged passing cars to honk in support. 

It was one of the first protests against Musk to take place in Australia and participants were joined by student representative councils outside the company’s office. 

At the heart of their message was a rejection of Musk’s efforts to reshape the United States government within his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) outfit.

US President Donald Trump entrusted the billionaire to reshape the government by reducing its workforce in an attempt to eliminate waste and inefficiency. 

Some drivers on their way home honked in support of the protest with one yelling ‘f*** Musk’ as they passed by, according to the Daily Telegraph.

One motorist passing by crashed into the back of another car in an unrelated incident which interrupted the protest while a tow-truck attended the scene.

Protestors gathered outside Tesla’s Australian headquarters in Sydney to protest Elon Musk

The group of about 50-strong equated Musk to a Nazi and said he had no place in Australia

A number of hecklers however told the protestors to ‘go home’ in the midst of their demonstration. 

The protestors ignored the request and continued waving their signs and chating rhetoric against the world’s richest man.

‘Elon Musk go to Mars, we don’t want your useless cars,’ the group chanted. 

The protestors continued into chants of ‘No Musk, no KKK, no fascist USA’, and ‘We want healthcare not another billionaire’ and ‘Elon Musk go to hell take Trump there as well.’

One protestor even said that Tesla ‘represented the stolen wealth of Elon Musk’.  

A student who attended the protest, Jasmine Alrawi, said Musk had ‘everything to do with us here in Australia’. 

‘Attacks against oppressed people, against workers, have everything to do with us here,’ she said.

‘The fact our government continues to defend Trump, and continues to defend Elon Musk is a huge shame.’

US President Trump entrusted the world’s richest man to reshape his government by reducing its workforce in an attempt to reduce waste and inefficiency

Sydney protesters rejected Musk’s efforts to reshape the US government within his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) outfit

The protest was organised on social media where activists called for a ‘Tesla takedown’.

Signage held by some at the event displayed Musk’s infamous moment where he appeared to perform a Sieg Heil at the Trump inauguration in January. 

The latest protest comes just days after multiple cities around the world hosted protests against Trump and Musk. 

Most protests took place in the US but some extended as far as London where hundreds gathered in opposition to the second Trump administration.

At the same time, thousands of protesters in US cities from New York to Anchorage, Alaska, and multiple other state capitols slammed Trump and Musk’s actions on government downsizing, the economy, immigration and human rights.

The protests came as Tesla shares plummeted in Australia. 

Shares fell by as much as 53 per cent in March, according to the Electric Vehicle Council.

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Wild scenes as far-left protesters protest Elon Musk outside Tesla’s Australian headquarters

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