From CPAC to NatCon to BACPAC : Trumpism Down Under

Posted on October 12, 2026 by @ndy

Warren Mundine’s CPAC — the Australian franchise of the Trumpist political circus — took place on the weekend in Brisbane. You can read more about the gathering — which starred Angus ‘Fantastic’ Taylor (Liberal), semi-pro cosplayer Matt Canavan (National) and of course Pauline ‘I Don’t Like It!’ Hanson (PHONy) — in accounts by:

• Andrew Stafford (Conservatives one, and all over the place at conference, The Canberra Times, October 10, 2026);
• Clare Armstrong (Angus Taylor went where no Liberal leader has before, but Pauline Hanson already ruled the room, ABC, October 11, 2026);
• Josh Butler (A Trump impersonator and opera singers: CPAC was a spectacle, but the right still can’t agree how to take down Labor, The Guardian, October 11, 2026) and;
• David Lowe (Right wing ratbags gather in Brisbane for CPAC, Echo, October 12, 2026).

For background, see : Crikey: CPAC Australia is calling itself ‘NatCon’ this year. It may mean more than you think, Lucy Hamilton, September 30, 2026.

The other speakers were current or former right-wing politicians — Senator Sean Bell (PHONy); Jarrod Bleijie MP (Liberal National); Senator Leah Blyth (Liberal); Ross Cameron (Liberal); Nick Goiran MP (Liberal); Gary Hardgrave (Liberal); Senator Sarah Henderson (Liberal); Barnaby Joyce MP (National/PHONy), Senator Kerrynne Liddle (Liberal); Senator Susan McDonald (National); Senator Bridget McKenzie (National); Henry Pike MP (Liberal National); Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (National/Liberal); Dan Tehan MP (Liberal); Phillip Thompson MP (Liberal National); Liz ‘Lettuce’ Truss (Conservative) — along with a glittering array of right-wing propagandists, rich idi0ts and sundry others: Andrew Cooper (LibertyWorks), Rupert Degas, Robert Gregory (AJA), Sall Grover, Scott Hargreaves (IPA), Collin Lillie, Barclay McGain, Warren Mundine (Labor/Libertarian/National), Noëmi Nadelmann, Ian Plimer, Gideon Rozner, Mia Schlicht (Samuel Griffith Society), Michael Shellenberger, Tali Shine, Suzi Smeed, Karl Stefanovic, Lyndon Terracini, Bryan Welker (Turning Point USA) and Dan Wild (IPA).

A number of people attended and OMGWTF ERUPTED! at a small counter-protest.

See also : Why does it matter that John Anderson AO is spending 7/10 on a stage in Jerusalem?, Lucy Hamilton, October 3, 2026 /// Political Troglodytes and Economic Lunatics: The Hard Right in Australia, Dominic Kelly (La Trobe University Press, 2019).

BACPAC

This weekend, the British Australian Community (BAC) is holding its own gathering. Last week, BAC got a guernsey in Victorian English language charity investigated over funding for white nationalist groups by Ruby Jones, Michael Workman and Matt Martino (ABC, October 9, 2026).

ABC NEWS Verify can reveal ESU Victoria also has ties to a far-right political interest group called the British Australian Community (BAC).

The BAC says it exists to “promote and defend the interests of Anglo-Celtic Australians”.

The group has engaged in white nationalist rhetoric, including advocating for remigration, which is the deportation of those of non-European heritage.

In a post on X in 2024, the BAC referenced Australian Anglo-Celtics being “under siege” by the “threat” of “mass indiscriminate immigration”.

The BAC is not. happy. about the coverage. Neither is former National Social Network (NSN) member and blogger David Hiscox (see : Press F# for neo-Nazi Keyboard Warrior David Hiscox, August 7, 2023), who writes:

Given “Doctor” Roose’s long history of a single issue fixation on so-called “far right” “extremism”, it is possible that he (and some ABC journalists) are either members of terrorist organisations Slackbastard and Antifa, or are at least Antifa adjacent. The ABC’s apparent decision to publicise the location of the Victorian ESU’s headquarters could also encourage political violence against ESU and BAC members and property.

All else aside: the ESU’s Victorian headquarters in Ascot Vale is advertised on its website; slackbastard is the blog you’re reading, not a terrorist organisation; the idea that Dr Roose is a ‘member’ of slackbastard or ‘Antifa’ is rather silly (to put it mildly). By the same token, while the NSN — or rather, its putative political party, ‘White Australia’ — has been proscribed (along with Hizb ut Tahrir) as a ‘hate group’, the High Court is yet to pass judgement on the neo-Nazis’ argument that the relevant law is, in fact, un-Constitutional.

The October 17 BACPAC gathering in Sydney, titled ‘Abolishing Anglophobia: The Road to Success’, stars property developer scion and sometime fren of the NSN Hugo Lennon, Eric Louw, Proprietarian MP John Ruddick, binfluencer Evelyn Rae, Luke Torrisi, and an ‘International VIP Keynote Speaker’.

See also : Frightened Chicks, Pablo Scheffer’s review of How England Began: From Roman Britain to the Anglo-Saxons by Nicholas J. Higham, London Review of Books, Vol.48, No.18, October 8, 2026.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #300 w Emma Hagberg on ‘Comrades, Not Friends’ & The Revolutionary Front : October 8, 2026

Posted on October 5, 2026 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Emma Hagberg. Emma is the author of Comrades, Not Friends: The Revolutionary Front, Antifascism, and Class Struggle (PM Press/Working Class History, 2026), translated by Gabriel Kuhn and with a preface by Tomas Rothaus (both of whom have been previous guests of the show).

According to Hagberg, RF had ‘a strong collective identity, the view of fascists as class traitors, and the critique of an autonomous left that often had no place for working-class people’; Comrades was originally published in Swedish as 18.6 – Kamrater, Inte Vänner (B.E.L Publishing, 2024) and is also available in a German translation.

PM Press:

The Revolutionary Front (RF), 2001–2015, was the most militant organization on the left in recent Swedish history. Staunchly working class, the first generation of RF members engaged in numerous street battles with Swedish fascists. When the fascists retreated from the streets, RF attacked them in their homes. The police cracked down on the organization in 2013, raiding the apartments of several alleged members at the crack of dawn. The courts handed out prison sentences of up to six and a half years. Two years later, the organization folded.

See also : Presentation on the book about Revolutionära Fronten (Revolutionary Front) (April 13, 2025). Emma may be contacted via [email protected] and also via bel.publishing on instagram.

4.30pm, October 8, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #299 w Leena van Deventer on GamerGate & the grievance economy : October 1, 2026

Posted on September 30, 2026 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Leena van Deventer [Bluesky]. Leena is a game developer, writer and researcher. Among her current interests is the concept of:

Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history. Hetconned, the project, maps how the contemporary far-right market different post-truth fantasies to recruit and radicalise people into fighting for the Christo-nationalist project.

See also : Game Changers, Dan Golding and Leena Van Deventer (Affirm Press, 2016).

4.30pm, October 1, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #298 w Michael Bachelard on The Exclusive Brethren : September 17, 2026

Posted on September 16, 2026 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Michael Bachelard. Michael is a reporter for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and the author of Behind the Exclusive Brethren (Scribe, 2010), which details the church’s ‘origins in the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century, their fractious history, their extraordinary use of scripture to control members and dissidents, and their lucrative business and financial arrangements … a fascinating story of influence and power exercised across several continents.’

In ‘Tail, film, heckle’: Inside the Brethren’s secret election influence plot with the far-right by Sherryn Groch and Michael Bachelard (The Age, September 13, 2026), it was reported that ‘Leaked messages reveal the full story of how the Exclusive Brethren secretly recruited neo-Nazi associates to harass MPs at the election. As the church denies it, one elder confirms his involvement.’ Among the binfluencers named in the article are Laurence McIntyre, Chris de Bruyne (AKA Chriscoveries/Australian Firebrand), (Proud Boy) Harrison McLean, Barclay McGain (‘You’ve Done It Again’/CPAC Australia) and (‘That’s Freedom!’) Morgan C Jonas.

See also : ‘Assault on democracy’: Brethren leaders called to answer for far-right election plot, Michael Bachelard and Sherryn Groch, The Age, September 16, 2026 /// Who are the Brethren and what do they believe in?, Bernard Doherty, The Conversation, August 26, 2026.

4.30pm, September 17, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #297 w Amora (Hero Warrior) & Leigh : on Myanmar : September 10, 2026

Posted on September 9, 2026 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Amora of Hero Warrior and Leigh of the ASF (Melbourne North). Amora is a member of Hero Warrior, an anarchist group resisting the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military junta. Leigh is a member of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Federation, the Australian section of the International Workers Alliance.

Note that Amora’s words are voiced by a guest of the show.

Currently, the ASF-IWA is engaged in a fundraising campaign for HW to assist in the purchase of food, medicine and other essentials:

On 22 July, ‘Hero Warrior’, an independent Local Peoples Defence Force (LPDF) based in Central Myanmar, officially mandated ASF-IWA to conduct humanitarian fundraisers for ‘Hero Warrior’ food distribution program to displaced communities and healthcare infrastructure for the next 12 months.

To find out more and/or to make a donation, please see the ASF-IWA site linked above.

See also : Interview with Amora: An Anarchist Feminist of Myanmar’s Resistance, heinhtetkyaw, libcom, July 11, 2026 /// Myanmar on libcom /// Against the State: Anarchists and Comrades at War in Spain, Myanmar, and Rojava, James Stout (AK Press, 2026) /// The Final Straw Radio interview with James Stout, January 11, 2026.

4.30pm, September 10, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.

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“There’s this sketchy Dutch black metal band touring Australia …”

Posted on September 3, 2026 by Anonymous
    By way of introduction:

    I was contacted a little while ago by somebody raising concerns about a couple of upcoming black metal gigs. Below is the text they sent.

    So …

There’s this sketchy Dutch black metal band, Helleruin, playing in Melbourne at the Northcote Social Club on September 11 and in Sydney at Crowbar on September 12.

Most of Helleruin’s records have been released on New Era Productions, which has put out a number of releases by fash black metal bands and which is run by Jasper Velzel, a NSBM and RAC musician. In addition, another project of Helleruin’s Carchost — Orewoet — is on the label Heidens Hart, which — along with releasing some far-right stuff — is owned by a former live guitarist of prominent fash band Graveland.

Moreover, a number of the local supporting acts have sketchy connections.

Order of Orias, one of two supports in Melbourne along with Petrol (see below), are on World Terror Committee, which releases fashy stuff and is owned by Sven Zimper, a member of prominent NSBM group Absurd.

Of the bands playing Sydney with Helleruin (Krvna, Pestilential Shadows, Destruktor, Vicissitude, Gravgöt, Grotesque Bliss, Petrol, Blasfemancia and Akhoth) at the ‘Call from the Grave’ festival:

Pestilential Shadows have released music on the Chinese label, GoatowaRex, who are very friendly to NSBM acts. Additionally, PS is part of a collective called Ordo Ater Anguis/Order of the Black Serpent, which includes numerous far right acts. Michael W Ford of Black Funeral appears to be a former Order of Nine Angles (09A) member in the United States who — after distancing himself from O9A — attempted to formulate a social Darwinist version of the Satanic Temple (lol), which coalesce around the Australian fash-friendly label, Dark Adversary. Indeed, one of the members of PS is also a member of Varw, a band on Dark Adversary. Further, Akhoth released a demo, ‘Storm of Pagan Fury’, on CD on Dark Adversary this year.

Grotesque Bliss are on Iron Bonehead which, along with the suspect name, appears to be run by a (if only barely) crypto-fascist.

Destruktor is on a label, Hells Headbangers, which has previously released and re-released stuff by Satanic Warmaster and Deströyer 666, including re-releasing Deströyer 666’s debut album, ‘Unchain the Wolves’, on a few different mediums over the last few years. Additionally, Inquisition had a few releases on Hells Headbangers after their lead singer (who is also a Satanist pedo) released openly fash music on fash label Satanic Skinhead Propaganda (a label which the Iron Bonehead guy sold in his old fash-friendly record store).

The most recent (2024) EP of Krvna, formally of PS, was released on Zazen Sounds, run by Greek nazi black metaller Acherontass of Αχέροντας (Krvna played guest guitar on their most recent album). For what it’s also worth, Third Eye Temple — the Polish label on which Krvna’s 2022 album was released — have released one split and re-issued an EP by Voidhanger, a side project of Polish far right black metallers, Infernal War.

Finally, Petrol were previously on a cancelled bill with Gurn. They also played a gig with Japanese band Abigail, who are signed to Nuclear Now Productions, a fash-friendly label linked to Iron Bonehead (similarly exposed by the nsbmboneheads blog linked above). In addition, Petrol played at Crowbar Sydney last year with Bölzer (see nsbmboneheads blog), who released all but their last record on Iron Bonehead. The other headliner was Portal, who have released lots of records on Hells Headbangers including, recently, a split with Blood of Kingu — a side-project of the Ukrainian ultra-nationalists from Drudkh — on the label in 2014.

    So there you have it.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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March for White Australia : August 30, 2026

Posted on August 24, 2026 by @ndy

[Update (August 25, 2026) : Prominent Victorian neo-Nazi Timothy Lutze takes own life amid court proceedings for attack on Melbourne’s Camp Sovereignty, Rohan Smith, news dot com dot au: ‘Mr Sewell, Mr Bull, and six other co-accused had their bail varied to attend the funeral for Mr Lutze on Wednesday.’]

They’re back!

Well, most of ’em.

On August 30, M4WA supporters will again be reclaiming the streets for White Australia, ‘remigration’ and — of course — #FreezePeach.

The march takes place on the first anniversary of the previous march in Melbourne/Naarm and the subsequent, celebratory attack on Camp Sovereignty by local neo-Nazis belonging to Tom Sewell’s (now-proscribed) National Socialist Network. Over a dozen men were charged over that matter: Nathan Matthew Bull, Haymish Busscher, Blake Cathcart, Billy Michael Conheady, Jake Crockett, Zack Steven Dewaard, Augustus Coolie Hartigan, Jaeden Bernard Johnson, Timothy Holger Lutze, Michael Nelson, Michael Saarinen, Thomas Sewell, Ryan Williams and Yan Zakharin. Of these, Zakarin has been deported back to Ukraine, and earlier this month, ‘Jaeden Johnson, Zack Dewaard, Blake Cathcart and Timothy Lutze pleaded guilty to one charge each of violent disorder, with Johnson and Lutze also pleading guilty to committing an indictable offence while on bail’. Lutze failed to attend a court hearing on August 14 and it was subsequently reported that he was, in fact, dead. Cases against the others allegedly involved in the attack are otherwise making their way through the courts.

As for M4WA in 2026, while Bec Walker (now known as FightForAustralia) once led the charge from Sydney, on this occasion property developer scion Hugo Lennon (like Australia’s leading neo-Nazi website, also sponsored by Facebook) — having wrested control of their socials from Walker — has appointed himself the Sir Topham Hatt of the racist carnival. Joining him will be his frens in the (former) NSN, Matt Trihey and his NWA and, presumably, an unknown number of PHONy supporters and other right-wing bizarr0s.

Anyway, while Trans Queer Solidarity has announced a protest event, a Rock Against Racism gig has been organised at Camp Sovereignty on Sunday afternoon.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #296 w Jason Wilson on imperial decline : August 13, 2026

Posted on August 11, 2026 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Jason Wilson [Bluesky]. We last spoke to Jason in February on The Epstein Files. On this occasion, we spoke to him about US empire and decline.

See also : Jason Wilson at The Guardian.

4.30pm, August 13, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #295 w Ariel Bogle on 764 (and more) : July 30, 2026

Posted on July 29, 2026 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to The Guardian’s Ariel Bogle [Bluesky], whom we last spoke with in July last year about her book with Cam Wilson, Conspiracy Nation. On this occasion we spoke to her about 764, ‘one part of a growing online ecosystem that pushes young members into brutal and degrading acts’ which has ‘perpetrators and victims in dozens of countries’, including Australia.

We also spoke to Ariel about: Australian anti-terror laws and their impact upon children and youth; One Nation Party propaganda being produced by slop farmers in Indonesia.

Please note that a content warning applies to materials discussing 764. See : Inside the horrifying online network where children coerce others to commit violence and self-harm, The Guardian, July 21, 2026 & Full Story podcast, July 27, 2026 /// The Nordic Front of ‘764’: Trends, Drivers, and Countering Youth Exploitation and Radicalisation, GNET, Valdemar Balle and Anonymous, January 5, 2026 /// Holding 764 Accountable, Program on Extremism (PoE) at The George Washington University, December 18, 2025 /// Networks of Harm: A Victim-Centric Resource on the 764 Network, ISD, November 6, 2025 /// ‘My teenage daughter fell victim to a satanic online group – and I felt powerless to help’, BBC, South East of England Investigations Team, October 23, 2025 /// 764: The Intersection of Terrorism, Violent Extremism, and Child Sexual Exploitation, Marc-André Argentino, Barrett G and M.B. Tyler, GNET, January 19, 2024 /// Inside 764 ‘a hard hitting investigative true crime series released as both a podcast and a YouTube documentary’. | Australian children are being arrested under laws to ‘disrupt’ extremism: ‘On balance this is a bad law’, Ariel Bogle and Nino Bucci, The Guardian, March 15, 2026 | Pro-One Nation Facebook groups appear to be run by foreign ‘meme factories’ that monetise content, Ariel Bogle and Nick Evershed, The Guardian, June 28, 2026.

4.30pm, July 30, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.

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Yeah Nah Pasaran #294 w Émile P. Torres on TESCREAL & the techno-fascist redux : July 23, 2026

Posted on July 21, 2026 by @ndy

This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Dr. Émile P. Torres [Bluesky]. Émile is an author (most recently of the book Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation), podcaster (Dystopia Now) and critic of the bundle of ideologies collectively known as TESCREAL: Transhumanism, Extropianism, Singularitarianism, Cosmism, Rationalism, Effective Altruism and Longtermism.

We first spoke to Émile about TESCREAL in October 2023. A few years later, we reviewed the situation in 2026 and discussed the rollout of AI (‘It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere’!), AGI, ASI and the speculative fictions of Silicon Valley.

See also : Skeptical of the TESCREAL Acronym? Read This., Émile P. Torres, substack, July 10, 2026 /// The “Merge” With AI Has Already Begun, Émile P. Torres, The Nation, July 7, 2026 /// Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally. (Interview with Émile Torres), Jacobin, November 15, 2025 /// The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence, Timnit Gebru & Émile P. Torres, First Monday, Vol.29, No.4 (April 2024).

4.30pm, July 23, 2026 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus, podcats.

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