 On Anzac Day 1982, he co-founded National Action (NA), which eventually collapsed due to Saleam's convictions for property offences and fraud in 1984, possession of a prohibited article - a large nail-studded club in 1985, and for organising a shotgun attack in 1989 on African National Congress Australian representative Eddie Funde, for which he served three years in prison.After his release from prison, Saleam was awarded a PhD in politics from the University of Sydney by writing a thesis entitled "The Other Radicalism