Keli Holiday speaks out one year after viral controversial video
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Keli Holiday – real name Adam Hyde – has released a statement following a viral video shared last year addressing the anti-immigration protests in Australia.
In the video, Hyde appeared alongside his partner Abbie Chatfield, speaking out against the protests happening around the country.
Adam Hyde is a popular Aussie musician, known for his solo act, Keli Holiday, as well as one half of the electronic duo, Peking Duk. Don Arnold
Hyde said his comments in the video have now become a safety issue for both himself and his loved ones.
“For some time now I’ve been targeted by a deliberate weaponisation and misrepresentation of something I said almost a year ago that needs to be clarified,” he began the statement, shared to his social media.
“I’m addressing this now because since coming home from tour, people I love have been threatened, harassed and verbally abused in public and it’s now become a safety issue not only for me, but for those around me.
“I’ve seen people claiming that I ‘wish death’ upon ‘anyone who disagrees with me’, that I have told ‘every day Australians’ to ‘kill themselves’, or have even threatened to harm people. These are defamatory and entirely untrue claims against me.”
Hyde shared that the video that has been circulating online “has been edited, recontextualised, and is missing the pivotal context of who I’m actually addressing.”
He said that the true context of his quotes was in relation to the self-proclaimed neo-Nazis who stormed an indigenous encampment in Melbourne in August 2025, allegedly assaulting women and hurling racist abuse.
The group charged Camp Sovereignty, a sacred site and standing protest in Kings Domain, allegedly ganging up to assault young indigenous women. The incident left four people injured, with two women taken to hospital.
The incident took place as thousands of others took to Melbourne’s CBD in a March for Australia anti-immigration protest.
Hyde clarified that his comments were not directed at everyday Australians, but at everyone at the March for Australia, or everyone who simply disagrees with him.
He also shared his exact wording from the video, admitting that it “was far from eloquent” and “not conducive to anything positive”, and adding that it is “critical” his words are read in the context of the incident in which he was addressing.
Hyde and his partner, Abbie Chatfield, are known to proudly and publicly stand up for their beliefs, pictured here at the National Rally Against Violence Against Women in 2024. Lisa Maree Williams
“My actual words from the original video ... ‘There’s indigenous people that have been hurt after a bunch of f---ing Nazi losers ran through a camp. How the f--- is that trying to ‘reclaim Australia’? I mean, you just all got f---ing pea brains, tiny c---s and dumb, numb skills, you don’t belong here, you racist f---s. You’re all losers. Grow up’,” he shared.
“If you’re mad at me for being viscerally frustrated, heartbroken and disappointed that in Australia in 2025 there were groups of people reported to be neo-Nazis storming peaceful, innocent protest camps and severely harming innocent Australians for no reason, then by all means be mad at me.
“I love Australia. I’m all for love (but I do hate neo-Nazis).”
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