The NFA was established originally in 1977 as a sister organisation of the British National Front; sister organisations were also formed in New Zealand and South Africa at the same time. It did not become fully operative until 1978. NFA followed Tyndall's British imperial view and called for a “regenerated British Australia”. Like the sister organisations, it sought to align itself with other right-wing and racist groups. However, its British
Australian nationalism and anti-immigrant stance separated it from the more Europeanist/Americanist 'white race' neo-Nazi far-right that was emerging in Australia, many of whose members were themselves immigrants rather than of British origin. The first party chairman was Rosemary Sisson. Branches were formed in Victoria, with Sisson as branch secretary; in Queensland, with Victor Robb as branch secretary; and in New South Wales with
neo-Nazi Robert Cameron as branch secretary. Divisions emerged between the Victoria and New South Wales branches. Cameron was later joined by fellow neo-Nazi Ross "the skull" May during the 1980s. Cameron was accused of being an "informer-provocateur" and that his presence discredited the party as a 'respectable' right-wing party. From June 1978 the party published a magazine called
Frontline, in collaboration with the
New Zealand National Front. Victor Robb was the party's first electoral candidate in
1978. He "campaigned at the time on a platform of making Australia racially pure". Sisson and Robb stood for the party in the
1980 federal election in Queensland. Sisson attended the British National Front's AGM in 1978. Following John Tyndall's departure from the British National Front in 1980, the NFA supported the
New National Front. The party ceased in 1984. After the demise of the party
Frontline continued to March 1987 in support of a more general non-party "nationalist cause". == Federal parliament ==