The white nationalists are down under.

The rise of Donald Trump in the US coincided with the emergence of a new movement of aggressive white nationalists who call themselves the "alt-right" online.

The loosely connected group of people, who gathered on Twitter, Reddit and 4Chan and adopted the cartoon frog Pepe as its mascot, saw its ideas about white nationalism and anti-immigration thrust into the mainstream by Donald Trump.

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Now in Australia, similar social media accounts espousing the same vicious, racist, anti-immigration rhetoric and memes have popped up, rallying around the hashtag #DingoTwitter.

Like their American counterparts, accounts purporting to be members of #DingoTwitter all rail against immigration, Islam, Judaism, feminisim and multiculturalism.

One of the users in the online community, THRILLHO, told BuzzFeed News over Twitter direct message that one of the main ideas of #DingoTwitter was pushing anti-Aboriginal ideas.

"Dingo Twitter argues that the Aboriginal peoples of Australia belong to a seperate species and must be segregated into the Northern Territories [sic] in order to restrict their atavistic dark energies."

That's not all. The group has targeted Australia's Sudanese refugee population, Muslim and feminist activists, and has taken a big interest in the freedom of speech debate around the Racial Discrimination Act.

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