John Tuson Bennett
John Tuson Bennett was a solicitor in Victoria, Australia. He was one of Australia's longest and most active Holocaust deniers, active in the Holocaust denial movement from the late 1970s. He formed the Australian Civil Liberties Union and was its president from 1980 to 2018.
Bennett graduated with honors from the University of Melbourne in both law and arts and subsequently worked for over 20 years from 1974 to 1996 in the Legal Aid Commission of Victoria. He also helped establish the Victorian Council for Civil Liberties in 1966 and serviced as its secretary until 1980. After his expulsion from the group in 1980, he formed the Australian Civil Liberties Union and was its president from 1980 to 2004. ACLU has been characterised as "one of Victoria's foremost racist and Holocaust denying organisations."
Bennett was closely associated with the Adelaide Institute as well as the United States-based Institute for Historical Review, two groups known for Holocaust denial. He was on the board of The Journal of Historical Review, and was the author of a handbook called Your Rights, known for criticising "multiculturalism and Asian immigration" in addition to criticism against the Jewish community and traditional beliefs about the Holocaust.
