antifa notes (january 18, 2026) : National Socialist Network (2020–2026) : Rest in Pieces?

Posted on January 18, 2026 by @ndy

“Gosh.”

A few days ago, Mr. Thomas Sewell — along with Robert Richter and Ramona Koval, one of Balwyn High School’s Most Famous alumni — announced that the groups he founded and for which he functions as fuehrer — the National Socialist Network/European Australian Movement and White Australia Party — would formally dissolve themselves on the stroke of midnight this Sunday, January 18. The Balwyn Gauleiter cited the impending passage of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill as the reason, a piece of legislation which goes before the federal parliament next week, and for which his group — of several hundred budding génocidaires — was one of the principal targets: ‘Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke specifically mentioned the Nazi group National Socialist Network, as well as Hizb ut-Tahrir, who he said had both been careful not to explicitly call for violence themselves.’

If enacted, the dissolution of the NSN would bring to a close a cycle of fascist and neo-Nazi organising that commenced with the establishment of the United Patriots Front as the political vanguard of the Islamophobic Reclaim Australia movement of 2015, which then evolved thru the establishment of The Lads Society and Antipodean Resistance a few years later, and finally the dissolution of these two groups into the NSN/EAM. Of course, neo-Nazis like Mr Sewell are incorrigible liars, so there’s no reason to take Der Fuehrer at his word. That said, given that what amounts to the impending criminalisation of the group is taking place at the same time that he and dozens of his NSN flunkeys are facing serious criminal charges, including for alleged acts of violence, it would certainly be in the neo-Nazis’ own interest to adopt a more modest pose in public.

The nature of these legal difficulties has also begun to change over time, with the courts taking an increasingly dim view of those who advocate murderous antisemitism. Thus, while the Christchurch massacre of March 2019 has been largely forgotten in Australia, the Bondi massacre of December 2025 is very fresh, calls for action in response to the event ongoing, and both the police and the courts have been under some pressure to respond accordingly. In which context, it’s highly unlikely that NSW Police will again approve an application for a neo-Nazi demonstration on the steps of the NSW parliament, or that Victoria Police will be as keen to ensure neo-Nazis can march thru Melbourne unchallenged. And currently, NSN member and Bondi resident Joel Davis, one of the mouthiest of Tom’s flunkeys, is having a rough time of it, being denied bail first once, then twice, and now three times. While I’d mistakenly thought Matthew Hopkins would be defending Mr Davis, instead it was up to Sebastian De Brennan to argue his case. And, rather like NSN member Jacob Hersant was once portrayed in court as a Poet, Joel Davis is apparently something of an Artist:

Arguing for bail, Mr Davis’s lawyer, Sebastian De Brennan, said the alleged comment made by Mr Davis was not a reference to “actual rape” but rather “academic”.

“This term … is a philosophical term of art, connoting robust debate or vigorous discourse,” Mr De Brennan said.

“Mr Davis was not encouraging or inciting for anyone to embark upon what might be construed as real rape at all.

“What he is saying was that against the power structure of government, where there is a disproportionate power dis-balance, that a particular politician needs to be rhetorically raped.”

Like Nazi art, Nazi philosophy is a funny thing, that’s for sure.

Of course, the idly philosophising Mr Davis isn’t the only NSN member in trouble with the law, and it’s possible that the network’s formal dissolution may assist those currently facing charges arising from their participation in Nazi-inspired hijinks. It’s also possible that more NSN members will join the few who’ve left the organisation since it made a splash with the alleged assault on Camp Sovereignty in August: the March for White Australia (M4WA) may have witnessed a peak in their popularity. And while the exact shape of the Combatting Antisemitism Etc. bill remains unclear — and thus too its implications for the neo-Nazi movement in Australia as a whole — of all the submissions to the Committee reviewing the legislation, my favourite is the one from Firearm Owners United, which: a) expresses support for ‘preventing violence and extremism’ and; b) was founded by Tom Sewell’s BFF and Lads Society member James Buckle. I’m also waiting with bated breath for attention to be turned on the white nationalist gun club AKA the Australian Natives Association, in which former UPF fanboy (and sometime ‘esoteric Presbyterian’) ‘Father’ Matthew Grant plays a key role. As for January 26 and the next M4WA, if Bec ‘Freedom’ Walker and Jesse ‘QAnon’ Stewart are again to lead a white supremacist gathering, while ‘Advance’ (a far-right lobby group which, according to The Klaxon, receives funding from Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism Jillian Segal and her husband John Roth) is on their side, the NSN, apparently, is in retreat.

So much for Sydney. In Melbourne/Naarm, leadership and organisation of the M4WA will likely be the responsibility of ex-Lad and onetime-Woman Matt Trihey and his Nationalists With Attitude (NWA) grouplet. Joining them will be nep0 baby Hugo Lennon. Lennon, the heir to a property developer fortune who enjoys blaming non-white migrants for the housing crisis, is the Scotch College graduate who spoke alongside Balwyn High’s Tom Sewell at the August M4WA. Since then, the little rich kid racist has been earning his white nationalist stripes in the United States, attending and speaking at Jared Taylor’s AmRen conference in November last year. Along with Taylor and Lennon, another speaker at the gathering in Tennessee was veteran British neo-Nazi Mark Collett of Patriotic Alternative, and PA in the UK are good friends to the NSN in Australia (see also : Affective experiences of nature: Far-right organising in the national landscape, Tim Gentles, ephemera, 2025); Joel Davis’ podcast co-host and convicted arsonist and stalker of women Blair Cottrell is also very good mates with the nazis in Merrie Olde England.

In summary, then, Tom Sewell’s nazi kvlt — or at least this latest iteration of his dream of Aryan supremacy — may conclude on Sunday, but what happens after this point is unclear. Hence, there may be an opportunity for cucked UPF fuehrer Blair Cottrell to re-emerge, possibly in association with the NWA. Or Tom’s Lads may join a revivified far-right in PHONy or a new micro-sect. Presumably, his injunction to his followers to hit PAUSE on the Active Club model will be obeyed by most, but some may not be so persuaded, and seek to give other, less-public expression to their desire for a White Australia cleansed of racial and other enemies. Hopefully, this doesn’t assume especially sociopathic form, but just as one potential recruit to Tom’s crusade chose to set his sights on slaughtering Muslims instead, there’s no guarantees.

Finally …

“Hate.”

The Bill to combat antisemitism and so on will have potentially radical effects, not only upon Sewell’s kvlt but all forms of political activism and organisation. Anne Twomey considers some of the Constitutional and other legal implications here, while Deepcut News writes:

Labor unveiled a draft iteration of the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 earlier this week, drawing sharp condemnation from civil liberties groups as “radical and unprecedented reforms to our democratic rights and liberties.”

Among the reforms include:

• extraordinary new powers for the Home Affairs Minister to designate organisations as “hate groups” as they see fit, rendering them illegal without the minister “required to observe any requirements of procedural fairness”

• greatly expands the number of prohibited symbols, gestures, public conduct and online activity

• expands government power to refuse and cancel visas, with potential exclusion based on whether an individual “might” incite discord

The first point, in particular, has anti-genocide groups concerned that the new legislation would be used to target their peaceful activities.

“It is clear the Labor party is moving in the direction of Starmer’s Labour government in the UK, seeking to criminalise the anti-genocide movement and move it underground,” Amal Naser, spokesperson for the Palestine Action Group Sydney (PAG), told Deepcut.

See/hear also : Tom Tanuki takes ‘a look at the omnibus ‘Combatting Antisemitism, Hate & Extremism Bill 2026′, which has NSN and all its associated groups disbanding by midnight on Sunday – for good reason’.

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Peter Malinauskas 1 def. Adelaide Writers’ Week 0

Posted on January 13, 2026 by @ndy
    Update (January 13, 2026) : Since the Board told Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah to go forth, ‘Many authors have since announced they will no longer appear at Adelaide Writers’ Week 2026 and it is the Adelaide Festival’s position that the event can no longer go ahead as scheduled for this year. This is a deeply regrettable outcome.’

As ever, I’m a day late and a dollar short. But it’s noteworthy that, in the space of less than a week, South Australian Labor premier (and ex-Shoppie official) Peter Malinauskas has inadvertently engineered the near-total obliteration of Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) — and, in addition, imperiled the continuation of the 2026 Adelaide Festival as a whole.

Given that the Festival is considered a cultural treasure, that’s quite something.

And all because he didn’t want Palestinian-Australian academic and novelist Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah to speak at AWW.

Abdel-Fattah’s removal from the program was announced in a bizarre statement by the Adelaide Festival Corporation Board — then consisting of marketing executive Tracey Whiting (Chair); former politician Leesa Chesser; local councillor/real estate agent Mary Couros; airport manager Brenton Cox; lawyer Nicholas Linke; media consultant Daniela Ritorto; banker and financial analyst Donny Walford; & government observer Jennifer Fuller — on January 8. The statement didn’t specify precisely why Abdel-Fattah had to be removed, but did invoke the Bondi Beach mass shooting and amorphous ‘cultural sensitivities’.

Unsurprisingly, then, ‘Abdel-Fattah has engaged a lawyer to demand clarity on why she has been removed from the Adelaide Writers’ Week line-up’. Also seeking clarification on the matter is historian Henry Reynolds, and no doubt others are keen to give the Board an opportunity to further elaborate on the reasons for its decision.

Well, what’s left of the Board anyway. Since the shit hit the fan, Whiting, Linke, Ritorto and Walford have resigned from the board, leaving Chesser, Couros, Cox and Fuller holding the bag and presiding over an organisation seemingly operating outside of the governance structure spelled out in the Adelaide Festival Corporation Act 1998. For his part, Malinauskas has expressed the view that it’s all good, and there’s nothing to see here.

And today, AWW director Louise Adler has, perhaps inevitably, announced her own resignation.

What it all means — and how, precisely, this especially distasteful political sausage was made — is examined by former AWW director Jo Dyer in Why is a Labor Premier silencing a writer? (The Shot, January 13, 2026) and Richard Watts provides an overview of the debacle in Director Louise Adler quits as Adelaide Writers Week crisis deepens (ArtsHub, January 13, 2026).

Finally, Tash from Bendigo has published an open letter to Jarvis Cocker of UK band Pulp. The band is scheduled to play a free concert to open the Festival on February 27, but Tash is hoping that, under the circumstances, they might reconsider.

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Conversation With A Tax Collector About Poetry : Vladimir Mayakovsky [1926]

Posted on January 10, 2026 by @ndy

Dedicated to the Adelaide Festival Corporation Board — Tracey Whiting, Alison Beare, Leesa Chesser, Mary Couros, Brenton Cox, Nicholas Linke, Daniela Ritorto, Donny Walford & Jennifer Fuller — & their auto-destructive work popularly known as ‘Adelaide Writers’ Week 2026′.

Conversation With A Tax Collector About Poetry
Vladimir Mayakovsky [1926]

Citizen tax collector!
Forgive my bothering you …
Thank you …
don’t worry …
I’ll stand …

My business
is
of delicate nature:
about the place
of the poet
in the workers’ ranks.

Along with
owners
of stores and property
I’m made subject
to taxes and penalties.

You demand
I pay
five hundred for the half year
and twenty-five
for failing to send in my returns.

Now
my work
is like
any other work.

Look here—
how much I’ve lost,
what expenses
I have in my production
and how much I spend
on my materials.

You know,
of course,
about “rhyme.”

Suppose
a line
ends with the word
“day,”
and then,
repeating the syllables
in the third line,
we insert
something like
“tarara-boom-de-ay.”

In your idiom,
rhyme
is a bill of exchange
to be honored in the third line!—
that’s the rule.

And so you hunt
for the small change of suffixes and flections
in the depleted cashbox
of conjugations
and declensions.

You start shoving
a word
into the line,
but it’s a tight fit—
you press and it breaks.

Citizen tax collector,
honestly,
the poet
spends a fortune on words.

In our idiom
rhyme
is a keg.

A keg of dynamite.
The line
is a fuse.

The line burns to the end
and explodes,
and the town
is blown sky-high
in a strophe.

Where can you find,
and at what price,
rhymes
that take aim and kill on the spot?

Suppose
only half a dozen
unheard-of rhymes
were left,
in, say, Venezuela.

And so
I’m drawn
to North and South.
I rush around
entangled in advances and loans.

Citizen!
Consider my traveling expenses.
—Poetry—
—all of it!—
is a journey to the unknown.

Poetry
is like mining radium.
For every gram
you work a year.

For the sake of a single word
you waste
a thousand tons
of verbal ore.

But how
incendiary
the burning of these words
compared
with the smoldering
of the raw material.

These words
will move
millions of hearts
for thousands of years.

Of course,
there are many kinds of poets.
So many of them
use legerdemain!

And,
like conjurers,
pull lines from their mouths—
their own—
and other people’s.

Not to speak
of the lyrical castrates?!
They’re only too glad
to shove in
a borrowed line.

This is
just one more case
of robbery and embezzlement
among the frauds rampant in the country.

These
verses and odes
bawled out
today
amidst applause,
will go down
in history
as the overhead expenses
of what
two or three of us
have achieved.

As the saying goes,
you eat forty pounds
of table salt,
and smoke
a hundred cigarettes
in order
to dredge up
one precious word
from artesian
human depths.

So at once
my tax
shrinks.

Strike out
one wheeling zero
from the balance due!

For a hundred cigarettes—
a ruble ninety;
for table salt—
a ruble sixty.

Your form
has a mass of questions:
“Have you traveled on business
or not?”

But suppose
I have
ridden to death
a hundred Pegasi
in the last
15 years?

And here you have—
imagine my feelings!—
something
about servants
and assets.

But what if I am
simultaneously
a leader
and a servant
of the people?

The working class
speaks
through my mouth,
and we,
proletarians,
are drivers of the pen.

As the years go by,
you wear out
the machine of the soul.

And people say:
“A back number,
he’s written out,
he’s through!”

There’s less and less love,
and less and less daring,
and time
is a battering ram
against my head.

Then there’s amortization,
the deadliest of all;
amortization
of the heart and soul.

And when
the sun
like a fattened hog
rises
on a future
without beggars and cripples,
I shall
already
be a putrefied corpse
under a fence,
together
with a dozen
of my colleagues.

Draw up
my
posthumous balance!
I hereby declare—
and I’m telling no lies:

Among
today’s
swindlers and dealers,
I alone
shall be sunk
in hopeless debt.

Our duty is
to blare
like brass-throated horns
in the fogs of bourgeois vulgarity
and seething storms.

A poet
is always
indebted to the universe,
paying,
alas,
interest
and fines.

I am
indebted
to the lights of the Broadway,
to you,
to the skies of Bagdadi,
to the Red Army,
to the cherry trees of Japan —
to everything
about which
I have not yet written.

But, after all,
who needs
all this stuff?
Is its aim to rhyme
and rage in rhythm?

No, a poet’s word
is your resurrection
and your immortality,
citizen and official.

Centuries hence,
take a line of verse
from its paper frame
and bring back time!

And this day
with its tax collectors,
its aura of miracles
and its stench of ink,
will dawn again.

Convinced dweller in the present day,
go
to the N.K.P.S.
take a ticket to immortality
and, reckoning
the effect
of my verse,
stagger my earnings
over three hundred years!

But the poet is strong
not only because,
remembering you,
the people of the future
will hiccup.
No!

Nowadays too
the poet’s rhyme
is a caress
and a slogan,
a bayonet
and a knout!

Citizen tax collector,
I’ll cross out
all the zeros
after the five
and pay the rest.

I demand
as my right
an inch of ground
among
the poorest
workers and peasants.

And if
you think
that all I have to do
is to profit
by other people’s words,
then,
comrades,
here’s my pen.

Take
a crack at it
yourselves!

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Would the real antisemites please stand up?

Posted on January 5, 2026 by @ndy

My last post — It was the best of times, it was the worst of times : Australian Nazis in 2025 — mostly concerned Tom Sewell’s gang, the National Socialist Network (NSN). In it, passing reference was made to the Bondi Beach mass shooting, but only in terms of its likely effects upon the policing of the group. Three weeks after that terrible event, however, I thought I’d write a few lines about it; or rather, share some of the thoughts of others that, for one reason or another, I think are notable. Oh, and take the opportunity to add that, sadly, Bondi resident and leading NSN member Joel Davis remains in Long Bay prison and — having been charged with a number of additional offences since his initial arrest — will RETVRN to court next week (where he will be ably represented by Matthew Hopkins).

To begin with, the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA) provides an alternative to the established ‘pro-Israel’ voices that dominate ‘mainstream’ (that is, corporate and state-owned) media discourse. In response to the shooting the JCA has, inter alia, published (December 22) an online petition ‘in solidarity with Jewish people standing against politicians and lobbyists who are exploiting the Bondi Chanukah massacre to push a divisive agenda’:

Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce have targeted our Muslim and Palestinian friends, families and neighbours. Benjamin Netanyahu and Jillian Segal are pushing to erode civil liberties and attack those who peacefully protest genocide. Andrew Hastie and Josh Frydenberg are attempting to score political points by attacking migrant communities.

Since the online petition dropped, Hastie — often portrayed as being The M.A.N. Most Likely to replace SuSSan Ley as leader (whenever the Tories decide her shtick has run its course) — has reportedly crowdfunded $260,000 in order to mount a propaganda campaign against ‘immigration’/migrant workers. Naturally, in this attempt to Make Australia Great Again™, he’s been joined by right-wing corporate lobby group Advance and, well, All The Usual Suspects.

As many others have remarked, even a cursory examination reveals that MAGA sentiment is widespread in the illiberal Liberal Party, which has successfully evacuated any liberal influence from its leadership and dwindling membership. As such, and leaving aside numerous right-wing micro-parties, in 2026 the party faces its stiffest competition from PHONy, to which former Coalition partner Barnaby Joyce has recently (and I’m sure entirely soberly) crawled. And whereas the Hansonism of yesteryear was rejected by local Zionist institutions (see : AIJAC), in 2025 her performative embrace of Israel (and ‘Palestine and Hamas are not two separate identities, they are one and the same’, etc., etc., etc.), has made ample space for her political rehabilitation, her rank prejudices notwithstanding.

In any case, it hardly needs to be said that the creation of the JCA and its articulation of an alternative Jewish perspective is considered very unwelcome by Zionists. For example: JCA advisory committee member Antony Loewenstein was recently identified by the Israeli Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism as one of the Top Ten generators of antisemitism in Australia. (Curiously — and rather like Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism — the NSN figures nowhere in the Ministry’s calculus.) Still, if I was conferring awards for chutzpah, the Australian Jewish Association would be a contender. Amichai Chikli, whose Ministry designated Lowenstein an antisemite:

… traveled to Australia shortly after the Bondi Beach attack, saying he wanted to stand in solidarity with the country’s Jewish community. During his visit, he participated in a solidarity event in Bondi hosted by the Australia-Israel & Jewish Affairs Council and the Australian Jewish Association, according to organizers.

The event was held at Chabad Bondi and was attended by former Australian prime ministers Tony Abbott and Scott Morrison, both of whom have previously spoken out against antisemitism and in support of the Jewish community.

Chikli’s successful visit may or may not be an improvement upon the AJA’s failed attempt to tour Lauren ‘The Great Replacement’ Southern through Bondi in 2018. Her promotion of the thesis bore fruit when in March 2019 an Australian murdered 51 Muslims in Christchurch, and justified the atrocity by reference to her thesis (a derivative of Camus’ meisterwerk). Her security detail on that tour consisted of members of The Lads Society, to which its leader, Tom Sewell, tried to recruit the killer; the grouplet later evolved into the NSN, an explicitly neo-Nazi organisation that, according to Chikli’s Ministry, does less to promote antisemitism than Lowenstein does.

Morbid symptoms indeed.

Elsewhere, Robert Manne reckons that the ‘response of the Albanese government to the Bondi massacre and the formation of the anti-Albanese alliance has been both clumsy and rather pathetic’, and struggles to understand ‘the strange atmosphere of strictly enforced unreality that has accompanied the growth of antisemitic sentiment in Australia since October 7’, one reflected in this ‘Bondi alliance’. And while Manne was deeply saddened by the massacre, Matt Chun has boldly declared of the dead that ‘We don’t mourn fascists’, and thereby triggered a predictable reaction.

Ho hum.

People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times : Australian Nazis in 2025

Posted on December 31, 2025 by @ndy

So … how did the Australian far-right go in 2025?

Of the dozen or so grouplets I included in July’s ‘Guide’, the Australian Jewish Association/PHONy/Avi Yemini (‘Rebel Media Australia’) on the one hand and the National Socialist Network/National Workers Alliance/The Noticer on the other have had the most political impact, while the rest have generally remained marginal. That said, ‘satellite groups like the local ‘Traditionalists’ (see : Traditional Britain Group), British Australian Community (BAC) and English-Speaking Union (ESU Victoria Branch), various other cultural associations, prominent binfluencers, online propagandists (Cairns News, The National Observer et. al.) and publishers (for example, Imperium Press)’ are becoming increasingly influential in the wider milieu from which radical right-wing grouplets often spring, and while “The Jewish Question” (sic) engenders a variety of “Answers” and its boundaries are somewhat fluid, the acceptance or rejection of antisemitism continues to demarcate the far right.

“I’m not in the NSN, but …”

If Maximum Chips was correct to claim that there were no neo-Nazis in Australia (or Europe, or North America) in 2017, then the NSN’s emergence a few years later is something of a mystery. If, on the other hand, Nazis have been a near-permanent part of the Australian political landscape since the 1930s, what requires explanation is their growth and seeming popularity among the right more generally:– especially over the course of the last decade. In which case, tracing the involvement of key individuals and their various political projects in the promotion of antisemitism, white nationalism and xenophobia may help explain this phenomenon. So too, the ways in which the fracturing of the parliamentary right has opened up political space for more determinedly reactionary forces to gain support. This helps to explain why a Catholic arch-Tory and Cambridge graduate like Dr Stephen McInerney can express support for Tom Sewell’s White Australia Party without rebuke.

For the NSN, 2025 was, until recently, a banner year. Specifically, one approved by New South Wales Police and reading ‘Abolish The Jewish Lobby’. Unfortunately for them — and outside of Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism and NSW Police (whose Commissioner, Mal Lanyon, had only two months previously declared a “laser-like” focus on combating antisemitism in the state) — the November publicity stunt generated immediate and very strong public disapproval, public exposure of many of its participants, and even deportation in the case of South African engineer Matthew Gruter.* (Gruter, at least, was able to obtain some financial compensation for his troubles with the help of Warren Mundine’s chums at Give Send Go.) Of course, the NSN could argue that they were well-behaved and submitted the appropriate application to authorities (which was accepted without question), so why the fuss? No fair!

Still, while God Hears Pleas of the Innocent is the sixth album by Killdozer, released in 1995, The Sydney Morning Herald was apparently able to ignore such entreaties and, in a series of articles, published in 2025, named a number of the neo-Nazis NSW Police gave their legal blessing to assemble (and declaim Blut und Ehre!). Apart from NSW state leader Jack Eltis, Adam Carrig, Christopher Carrig, Jacob Cooper, Joel Davis, Alexander Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Mare, Christien Mutton, Martin Przybylek, Sean Roberts, Gabriel Seymour, Cooper Stephens and Oscar Tuckfield all got a guernsey.

Prior to the publicity stunt in NSW in November, the NSN also had a win in Victoria in August, when around 200 or so of its members and supporters gathered in Ballan, then marched through Melbourne (with an escort kindly provided by Victoria Police). A few weeks later, VicPol were again on hand to ensure that the NSN were able to lead a march of thousands of c00kers and flagwits to the Victorian state parliament, where Tom Sewell, as Australia’s Special Envoy to Promote Antisemitism, was able to call for unity among (White) Australians what don’t like all them migrant workers Coming Over Here … because of (((You Know Who))).

Tapping into xenophobia in this fashion performs much the same function as Islamophobia did for the United Patriots Front (one of whose members, Kevin Combes, was jailed for rape in October. See also : An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens, Sherryn Groch, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 1, 2025). But while these sentiments are widely-shared, the especially vigorous and youthful expression given white nationalism by the NSN naturally attracts the most militant, while Boomerwaffen on Facebook can share The Noticer‘s agitprop promoting the group to their beleaguered family and friends.

Aside from successful publicity stunts and a growing national and international audience/market especially thrilled by such displays, in 2025 the NSN also encountered numerous legal difficulties. Thus: while Sewell was given a slap-on-the-wrist by the courts for intimidating a police officer and his partner; Joel Davis was denied bail after being charged for allegedly directing his nazi flying monkeys to harass Allegra Spender & Co. (pro-tip: don’t target VIPs); Jimeone Roberts received a 75-day prison sentence for monstering some old ladies; Jacob Hersant is yet to be sentenced after being found GUILTY! of doing a Nazi salute in public** and FAILING! in his appeal against a custodial sentence; and more than a dozen Lads — along with Sewell, they are Nathan Matthew Bull (24), Billy Michael Conheady (26), Haymish Busscher (18), Blake Cathcart (30), Jake Crockett (20), Zack Steven Dewaard (19), Augustus Coolie Hartigan (22), Jaeden Bernard Johnson (29), Timothy Holger Lutze (35), Michael Nelson (22), Michael Saarinen (18), Ryan Williams (35) and Yan Zakharin (20) — are each facing charges including violent disorder and affray for allegedly participating in the assault upon Camp Sovereignty in August following the March for White Australia.

Finally, the horrific Bondi mass shooting on December 14 has created further pressure upon authorities to tackle antisemitism. And while much emphasis has been placed upon the alleged role of the Palestinian solidarity movement in cultivating it, it would be truly extraordinary if the budding génocidaires of the NSN didn’t come under even closer scrutiny. Whether or not the shotgun wedding between the c00kers and flagwits of the M4WA and the nazis of the NSN is again able to parade the white nationalist cause on January 26 is an open question.

* In addition, last week: ‘A British national in Australia has had his visa cancelled and faces deportation for allegedly displaying Nazi symbols.’
** Bad Neighbour Damien Richardson also got pinged for doing a Nazi salute at an NWA meeting in 2024. On December 26, it was reported that ‘Zachery Hook, 18, has been charged with six offences, including performing Nazi salutes and placing extremist stickers on public buildings.’

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Blogging 2025 : A Summary

Posted on December 27, 2025 by @ndy

See also : Blogging 2024 : A Summary.

It was hardly a stellar year on the blog but nonetheless, for the record:

January

This month’s episodes of Yeah Nah Pasaran! featured Bob From Brockley (#233), Ashton Kingdon and Jason Wilson. I also wrote about Nationalists With Attitude celebrating January 26.

February

In February, it was all YNP! with Lucy Hamilton, Katherine Stewart, Gareth Gore and Michael Colborne.

March

The same was true in March, during which Kaz Ross, Craig Johnson, Byron C Clark and Richard Seymour were our guests.

April

Pádraig Óg Ó Ruairc, Rachel Withers, Talia Lavin and Jason Wilson were our guests in April(/May). I also made a token 2025 Australian federal election effortpost.

May

In May we were joined by Kate Burns, Paris Marx and Jeff Sparrow. There was also some anarchy on the airwaves (and podcasts).

June

June is 3CR’s annual radiothon and we spoke to Laura Jedeed. I also wrote about another neo-Nazi publicity stunt at Northland shopping centre, published a smol extract from a book by V G Venturini and there was a shitty metal gig at Mr Boogie Man Bar in Abbotsford.

July

In July on YNP! we spoke to Joey Watson, Annie Kelly, Nicola Guerra, Ariel Bogle & Cam Wilson. I also updated Trot Guide and published A Brief Guide To The Australian Far Right (July 2025 Edition).

August

August saw Emily M Bender & Alex Hanna and Kaz Ross join us on YNP!. I also posted about Anarchism in (‘so-called’) Australia in 2025, made some Notes on “the fight against antisemitism in Australia”, noted the NSN’s gathering in Ballan and police-escorted march thru Naarm, and wrote about the white nationalist March for Australia. Twice.

September

September was mostly dedicated to examining the M4WA on YNP!, but we also spoke to Hannah Gais and Mark Bray. And I made some notes following Trump’s second declaration of WAR! on anti-fascism.

October

Jason Wilson was on YNP! again in October, along with Talia Jane, Lucy Hamilton and Stanislav Vysotsky. I made some further notes on the M4WA and its RETVRN, on spycops, ‘antifa’, and on the sentencing of former United Patriots Front member Kevin Combes for rape.

November

In November on YNP! we spoke to Jennefer Harper, Kaz Ross and Helen Young. The M4WA and the NSN’s RETVRN on January 26, 2026, the SHOCK! and HORROR! TRIGGERED! by the NSN’s police-approved stunt outside the NSW parliament and ‘anti-antifa’ were the other things I wrote about on the blog this month.

December

In the final episodes of YNP! for 2025, we spoke to Joan Braune and Tal Lavin (#274). I also wrote about the NSN gathering and M4WA rally in Sydney on Australia/Invasion/Survival Day in 2026 and shared a special Crassmas song.

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Merry Crassmas from The First Atheist Tabernacle Choir

Posted on December 24, 2025 by @ndy

Ho ho ho.

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Oppose the Nazi gathering in Sydney in January, 2026

Posted on December 18, 2025 by @ndy

Members of Tom Sewell’s neo-Nazi gang the National Socialist Network (NSN) are gathering in Sydney January 24–26 in order to celebrate the British conquest of Australia and to participate in the March for White Australia when it triumphantly RETVRNS to Gadigal lands on January 26 AKA Australia/Invasion/Survival Day.

The NSN’s last publicity stunt, authorised by NSW Police, took place in November, when NSW state leader Jack Eltis assembled approximately 60 other flunkeys outside the NSW state parliament in order to support a proposal to ‘Abolish the Jewish Lobby’.

One casualty of the event was South African neo-Nazi Matthew Gruter, whose visa was CANCELLED and who was deported from the country following the stunt. Happily, Christian nationalist crowdfunder Give Send Go was able to help him raise over $36,000 as compensation for his troubles. The sponsor of Warren Mundine’s Conservative Political Action Conference in 2023 — which starred Elijah Schaffer, among others — was also the host of several other fundraisers for the NSN, helping the nazis raise tens of thousands of dollars in order to support their organising in Australia.

The national gathering of neo-Nazis and the white nationalist march on January 26 takes place barely a month after the Bondi mass shooting, so it seems unlikely that NSW Police will again authorise a public assembly should one be applied for, but who knows …

In any case, anti-fascists in Sydney have issued a call-out. Follow Anti-Fascist Alerts Sydney on Telegram and The Blak Caucus on Instagram for further infos.

The National Socialist Network have chosen Sydney for their yearly “Nationals” gathering on 24-26 January. Antifascists, unionists, community groups, activist groups and all concerned members of the public should be aware that upwards of 200 neo-Nazis and their supporters are intending to turn up in Sydney between January 24-26, including the racist “March for Australia” rally on January 26. You can’t let this go unchallenged in your city. Groups should begin organising, coordinating together, and making plans for supporting the Invasion Day rally and Yabun festival if they haven’t already. Keep an eye on the Anti-Fascist Alerts Sydney channel for further information over the coming weeks, and follow The Blak Caucus on social media for updates on the Invasion Day rally. Sovereignty never ceded. No room for racism.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #274 w Tal Lavin on antisemitism, homeschooling, & more : December 18, 2025

Posted on December 16, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Tal Lavin [Bluesky]. Tal is a writer, the author of Culture Warlords (about which we yarned in October 2020) and Wild Faith (October 2024) and a previous guest of ours in April 2025. Tal continues to write about swords and sandwiches here too. On this week’s episode we spoke to Tal about the horrific shooting in Bondi on the weekend, antisemitism, homeschooling, and more.

See also : Neo-Nazis’ chilling threats as government investigates homeschooling network, Sherryn Groch, The Age, December 2, 2025 /// The Jewish Diaspora Movement, Shane Burley, In These Times, December 9, 2025 /// I Watched 12 Hours of Nick Fuentes, Ali Breland, The Atlantic, December 13, 2025.

4.30pm, December 18, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

• This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms after broadcast.
• We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.

This week’s episode is also our last for 2025. Thanks heaps to our guests this year and to all our listeners. We’ll be back in January next year to commence our *checks notes* seventh year of broadcasting about fascism … and its gravediggers. Cheers!

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #273 w Joan Braune on Christian nationalisms : December 4, 2025

Posted on December 3, 2025 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, we talk to Dr Joan Braune [Bluesky]. Joan is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, and a previous guest of ours, having spoken to us previously about Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements (December 2023) and Cultural Marxism (September 2020).

On this occasion, we spoke to Joan about the newly-published book On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives, edited by Joan and David M. Gides and published in the Routledge Series on Fascism and Far Right (2025).

4.30pm, December 4, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus

• This episode will be available as a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms after broadcast.
• We also have a Facebook page for the show, which you’re invited to ‘Like’ and to ‘Follow’, although because the anti-social platform is bloody awful, chances are you’ll never notice it.

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