[8][9][11] Reclaim Australia has said that the rallies are a "public response to Islamic extremism and a protest against minority groups who want to change the Australian cultural identity.

[18] Street rallies held by Reclaim Australia have faced counter-protests from human rights and anti-racism activists, anarchists, trade unionists,[19] and members of the Socialist Alliance.

[21] According to political history lecturer Troy Whitford, Reclaim Australia is unlike previous short-lived radical nationalist groups.

[23] After observing many Reclaim Australia rallies and interviewing participants, author John Safran described it as a loose collective of different groups such as the United Patriots Front and Danny Nalliah's Catch the Fire Ministries.

[30] The same month, organisers of a Brisbane rally told the crowd that they had split from Reclaim Australia to join a group that was more explicitly anti-Islamic.

[31] In the Australian Capital Territory election of 2016, a Canberra organiser with Reclaim Australia, Daniel Evans, ran as an independent candidate in the electorate of Yerrabi.