A FAR-RIGHT campaigner has boasted of laying a trap for the Yes campaign to fall right in to.

There are exactly three weeks left before voting in Australia’s same-sex marriage postal survey wraps up, but an end to the nastiness that’s reared its head is nowhere in sight.

This weekend, Nick Folkes, the leader of The Party for Freedom and one of the chief organisers of the Cronulla riots anniversary events, confirmed to news.com.au his group will walk down Sydney’s King Street and Oxford Street on Sunday as part of a “social experiment”.

Mr Folkes, who was also behind last month’s failed Straight Lives Matter protest in Sydney where No advocates were outnumbered by police, media and same-sex marriage supporters, said he and 10 others will walk down the streets on Sunday.

The two streets are controversial choices considering Oxford Street is widely known as Sydney’s gay epicentre and King Street is located in Newtown, a suburb in Sydney’s inner west that has a high LGBTIQ population.

Speaking to news.com.au, Mr Folkes said he was planning a trap of sorts. His supporters will hand out Vote No flyers to “fire up the same-sex marriage supporters” and film the response.

“There will be no megaphones or placards. We will be handing out the flyers to test their tolerance and fair play,” he added.

Mr Folkes, who believes “most of the anger has come from the Yes campaign”, will be taking cameras to the streets in order to film any encounter they have with people walking the street.

“So far, there has been a lot of hostility towards No supporters and we want to prove a point that the Yes supporters are aggressive in the way they deal with opposition,” he said.

And if they are confronted or met with aggression?

“I’ll be happy democracy is in action,” he said.

“We’re not looking for violence, we’re just concerned that the Yes campaign has been willing to use intimidation in the past,” he added.

Mr Folkes, who believes same-sex marriage advocates “don’t appreciate democracy”, said he “genuinely hopes it will be peaceful”.

Despite the controversial move, another far-right wing activist said Mr Folkes’ views “are not relevant”.

Jim Saleam, who runs the Australia First Party out of his busy office in Sydney, said Mr Folkes is “a provocateur” and “everything he does is to get a reaction”.

Mr Saleam, who said he tries to avoid Mr Folkes “at all costs”, campaigns against immigration and wants to reinstate the White Australia policy.

While he is best known for his drastic views on immigration and multiculturalism, Mr Saleam also has a strong opinion on same-sex marriage — he refuses to accept it.

Even if the survey comes back with an overwhelming Yes response, and same-sex marriage is legalised, Mr Saleam told news.com.au he will “be against it, whether it passes or not”.

The politician believes, just as Mr Folkes does, that the legalisation of same-sex marriage will erode gender politics and social constructs.

Despite this, he does not believe the two of them “are even on the same plane”.

“I don’t agree with him for the simple reason of provocation — everything he does doesn’t mean anything,” Mr Saleam said.

THE VICIOUS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DEBATE

The same-sex marriage debate has prompted a wave of vitriol from both sides.

And while Mr Folkes believes that most of the violence has come from the Yes camp, there’s no denying both sides have waged a bitter war against each other.

Earlier this week, a straight Sydney couple found their mailbox defaced and poo on their doorstep after they put out a rainbow-striped Yes mailbox in support of their friends.

In response to the vandalism, they placed a note on their front fence.

“If you don’t like our letterbox — make your own,” the note reads.

“Please don’t deface ours or put poo on our doorstep. We invite you to knock on our door and chat about why we say yes and you say no.”

Last week, a Queensland woman’s house, decorated with a number of rainbow signs, was pelted with rocks. A day before that four houses in South Brisbane, all with rainbow flag memorabilia, were vandalised with black spray-paint and Nazi paraphernalia.

And a week before that an 18-year-old Christian nanny was sacked from a Canberra entertainment company after she changed her Facebook profile image to a Coalition for Marriage filter saying “It’s OK to vote no”.

More than half of eligible Australians have already had their say in the same-sex marriage postal vote, according to official Australian Bureau of Statistics records.

As of September 29, the ABS estimates it has received 9.2 million (57.5 per cent) survey forms.

More than 16 million postal survey packages were sent out when the survey began.

The postal vote closes on November 7, with the ABS to release the result on November 15.

* If you haven’t received your form, or your form is lost or damaged, contact the ABS via its website, call the Information Line on 1800 572 113 (open 8am to 8pm local time seven days a week) or visit a capital city or regional form pick-up location. Requests for new survey forms will close 6pm (local time) on October 20.

natalie.wolfe@news.com.au