Truck Tours Australia in Campaign Against Mass Migration

Protesters during the March for Australia rally against government migration policy in Sydney, Australia on Aug. 31, 2025. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

A campaign to end mass migration in Australia is set to be the focus of a major event in Perth, as organiser Scott Challen continues in his grassroots movement across the nation.

Australia Marches and the Australian Lobby Group has spent 14 months travelling around Australia’s cities and regions, encouraging Australians to march against mass migration policies.

“We’re currently undertaking a 10-week national roadshow, taking our purpose-built rally truck through regional Australia before finishing with major capital city events,” Challen told The Epoch Times.

“We’ve already travelled through Queensland and the Northern Territory, meeting thousands of Australians along the way.”

Perth will host the next event on Oct. 18, starting at Langley Park at 1 p.m.

Rallies in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra will then follow.

The Brisbane rally, held on Sept. 13, attracted an estimated 4-5,000 people.

“What makes this story interesting is that we’re not a political party,” Challen said.

“We’re building an independent, grassroots advocacy organisation that aims to give ordinary Australians a stronger voice in the national policy debate.”

Challen wants governments to act seriously on cutting migration, starting with deporting illegal residents.

“Australia has 2.9 million temporary visa holders right now, and legitimately some of them should be here,” he said.

“But there’s ... people that can leave this country today and take a huge amount of pressure off the housing market, off the cost of living, and try and rectify this economy.”

Challen also expressed his disappointment with mainstream media.

“We can’t get mainstream media to cover these events,” he said.

“They don’t want to talk about it anymore. But the media will continue talking about immigration.

“They don’t want to talk about the protests. They want to talk about immigration, but they don’t want to acknowledge that people are angry enough to get out and protest about it still.”

Challen said the media was trying to make it look like politicians were handling Australia’s migration issues, but the people had lost trust in the system.

“We’ve created such a name for what we do now that we don’t have to rely on the mainstream media to give us coverage to be able to get people to turn up,” he said.

“I would expect at least 1,000 in Perth, but we'll see how we go.”

Net overseas migration is forecast to reach 1.22 million over the five financial years from 2025–26 to 2029–30, according to budget figures.

Recent data revealed Indian-born migrants are now the largest new cohort of residents in Australia with 971,020 individuals by 2025, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Meanwhile, demographers said Sub-Saharan Africans would likely be the next major source of migrants to Australia in coming decades.