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Just before we start, this episode contains some strong language and descriptions of violence.

It doesn't matter where you live in the world.

I'm sure you've come across the odd racist poster or graffiti.

But back in Perth in those years leading up to the fire at my

family's restaurant, it was on a completely different level. I mean, like imagine

entire streets, covered in racist posters and they had

these horrible messages like Asians out or racial White Revolution, the only solution.

And they didn't just target Asians.

There were also racist posters about other people of color and the Jewish community.

And it didn't matter whether you tore them down,

they'd come back the next day. They caused a lot of distress and we were

bloody disgusted about it and we went all out to find out who these people were.

In the mid-80s, right back when the posters first started appearing,

David Parkinson was a detective in what was essentially W.A. Police's state protection and bodyguard service.

We were called the secret squirrels and the spies and whatever.

When he saw the posters, he figured whoever was behind them could be a threat to the kind of visiting

VIPs it was his job to protect and so he started gathering intel.

Because the posters were politically motivated, it fell under Eow Area.

David Parkinson noticed at the bottom of every poster something that was written on there. It was the name of a group, the Australian Nationalist Movement, or the A&M for short. And next to that, there was a postal address.

We took a warrant out on the post office to find out who the owner of the post office box was.

He was the guy, the man behind the throne.

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