A video has emerged of a far-right activist threatening to bring "a rain of s--t" to Fremantle unless the city's council restores Australia Day fireworks cancelled after being deemed 'culturally insensitive.'
Fremantle councillors voted to scrap the annual celebrations from 2017 and replace the event with a family-friendly event on a different date yet to be finalised.
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A man has posted video online confronting the Fremantle council over its decision to ban the Australia Day Fireworks.
"There has been a growing movement that January 26 is increasingly becoming a day that is 'not for all Australians'," Fremantle Mayor Brad Pettitt said after the decision was passed.
"For many Aboriginal Australians it is indeed a day of sadness and dispossession."
Far-right groups had threatened to protest the council's vote though none turned up on the night.
Now far-right figure Dennis Huts has posted a video to a far-right group's Facebook page showing himself entering the Fremantle Town Hall Centre asking staff to see Mayor Brad Pettitt so he can protest the issue.
WAtoday has chosen not to identify the Facebook group.
"We'll see if we can have a chat to the mayor about his treasonous decision to cancel the Australia Day fireworks," Mr Huts said.
"What do I have to do to see the mayor? Did you know that public demonstrations are being planned at the moment in protest of this decision by patriotic groups in the Perth region?"
Staff - clearly uncomfortable - tell Mr Huts he must make an appointment, before one man asks him to stop filming.
Mr Huts agrees to seek out an appointment, walking out of the centre so he can continue speaking to his mobile phone's camera, delivering a monologue directed at the mayor.
"Take a look at some of the public demonstrations that we've been a part of. That's the rain of s--t that's gonna come down on this place in the very near future if this decision, this treasonous decision to cancel the Australia Day fireworks is not reversed," Mr Huts said.
"We are going to bring a rain of s--t to this place you have not seen if you continue this crap."
Mr Huts warns that he and other members of far-right groups in Perth and Fremantle are planning demonstrations against the council's decision and even putting together their own fireworks display.
"If we're not successful in having this decision reversed and you dig your heels in then we will be down here on the 26th of January doing our own public demonstration of fireworks and if someone gets hurt, mate, we're going to lay that squarely at your feet."
The video comes after local businessmen in Fremantle put forward the idea of hosting their own Australia Day fireworks, saying they wanted a "family-friendly" event with "no politics" to be brought back to Fremantle on Australia Day.
Fremantle Council says it is aware of the far-right video. Mayor Brad Pettitt has been contacted for comment.