I don’t remember why exactly but — a long, long time ago, when I began blogging, I made a list of some of the muzak what I like:
Brigada Flores Magon • Brujeria • Built to Spill • Christ On A Crutch • Chumbawamba • Combat Wombat • Consolidated • Michael Franti [& Spearhead] • Fugazi • Insurgence Records • The (International) Noise Conspiracy • Linton Kwesi Johnson • Killdozer • Pisschrist • Pitchshifter • Schifosi • Gil Scott-Heron • Sin Dios • SNOG • Stage Bottles • Stereolab • The Celibate Rifles • The Oppressed • Yidcore
In 2023, most of these bands/musical projekts — some of whom were kinda un-well when I wrote about them — are deaded. Still standing are Brujeria, Built to Spill, Combat Wombat and ‘Insurgence Records’ (Urban Strife), Stage Bottles and Stereolab. And maybe Pitchshifter. And Consolidated. I’m also happy to learn that Brujeria have just dropped a new album but less happy that I’ve missed out on tickets to Built to Spill. Otherwise, for Pisschrist, see alsoEnzyme /// Jalang.
There’s Over 9,000 other artistes I could list, but never mind the bollocks, here’s Brujeria:
This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we talk to Tom Tanuki [X/Twitter/The YouTubes]. Tom has been a guest on the show on several previous occasions, most recently in August last year when we talked to him about conspiracies, freedumbs and a kidnapping case involving sovcits.
This time around, we spoke to him about Warren Mundine’s Conservative Political Action Conference and the remnants of the anti-lockdown turned anti-trans movement in Melbourne and their appearance at a recent drag event.
4.30pm, Thursday, August 31, 2023 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website
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[Update (August 31, 2023) : The Victorian parliament’s Select Committee on Victoria’s Recreational Native Bird Hunting Arrangements has published its report and among other things recommended recreational duck hunting be completely banned from 2024. You can download a PDF copy of the report here. Dictator Dan’s government has six months to implement the Report’s recommendations (or not), while the BIG unions have vowed to punish Labor MPs if they proceed a ban. (August 26, 2023) : Feathers ruffled: Unions vow to shut out Labor if duck hunting banned, Kieran Rooney, The Age, August 25, 2023.]
There’s BIG news on the local industrial relations front:
The combined forces of the Victorian branches of the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), Construction Forestry Maritime Mining And Energy Union (CFMEU), Electrical Trades Union (ETU) and Plumbing and Pipe Trades Employees Union (PPTEU) have declared WAR! on the Blue-winged Shoveler & Co..
Well, kinda.
Actually, the unions — as members of the Victorian-based ‘Building Industry Group’ (BIG) — have issued a joint statement denouncing a proposed ban on duck hunting in Victoria, and vowed to take, inter alia, some form of unspecified industrial action should Dictator Dan’s ruthless government deny their members the right to go duck hunting next year.
On the other side of the equation to the unions are the eight species of native duck currently considered fair game: the Blue-winged Shoveler, Grey Teal, Chestnut Teal, Hardhead, Mountain Duck, Pink-eared Duck, Pacific Black Duck and Wood Duck.
Exactly why these unions — with a membership in the order of 85,000 workers — have decided to adopt this particular issue as a hill to die/lake to kill on is unclear, but the BIG statement takes note of the fact that workers on the various construction projects of the government’s Big Build do ‘suicide shifts’ — ‘7 x 12-hour days followed by 7 x 12-hour nights’ — and that, consequently, many have great difficulty finding time for recreation: for some, that means time to go duck hunting.
For context, Davey Heller writes:
The threatened industrial action takes place as the Victorian Labor Government holds a Parliamentary Inquiry into the duck hunting season. Half of Australia’s state governments have already banned the hunting of native water bird species including NSW, WA and Queensland over concerns of animal cruelty and a long-term trend of declining numbers of native wetland birds.
In a highly-informative thread on Apartheid Clyde’s micro-blogging service, Sarah Missen notes:
The framework around the discussion of “suicide shifts” is alarming. The industrial action isn’t about dangerous & strenuous rosters. It is about the “right” of these workers to go hunting in order to relax after these “suicide shifts”.
In an OHS framework, eliminating “suicide shifts” would be the most effective. Ensuring access to duck hunting isn’t on the [hierarchy] of controls. This is like bosses telling stressed out workers to practice mindfulness rather than addressing the issues at work.
According to Mates in Construction, 190 construction workers die by suicide in Australia each year. Construction workers are 6x more likely to die from suicide than an accident at work. Promoting relaxing with firearms, & terminology like “suicide shifts” are both concerning.
Why are unions willing to put so much time, effort and resourcing into this campaign? With so many OHS issues; a cost of living crisis; a housing crisis; a climate emergency… why is this the big issue? And is it even an issue for the majority of union members?
Given all this, it poses the question of whether and to what extent the BIG unions are in fact being used as a stalking horse by lobby groups; those whose interest lies less in maintaining safer working conditions and more, perhaps, in propping up a failing industry. To the best of my knowledge, the BIG has not issued any other public statements — on any subject — so it may be that there’ll be clarifications in future. The BIG has in fact issued previous statements, and been in operation for some years. See, for example, this one issued in October 2021 welcoming the re-opening of construction work [PDF].
In any case, of ‘The politics of duck hunting’, Former Labor Guy Kos Samaras reckons only ‘Around 11k Victorians hunt ducks. They mostly earn over 100k. The ave working class income is almost half that. Who they are not? Labor/Greens voters in Melbourne and ‘red’ regional cities. Especially Millennials, Gen Z in these areas.’ I suppose the only other thing to add at this stage is that one of the only actual construction workers and CFMEU members to have been elected to the Victorian state parliament in recent years is Andy Meddick of the Animal Justice Party, who campaigned for a ban on duck hunting.
I forgots to add some of the public relations material produced by the BIG in conjunction with the ‘Outdoor Recreation Advocacy Group’ (ORAG) above, so will instead upload it below.
First, the BIG statement of August 17 (AKA ‘They’re coming for your salami!’):
Secondly, the advertisement the BIG and/or ORAG placed in the printed edition of The Age and Herald Sun newspapers of July 19 (AKA ‘Outdoor Recreation Under Attack!! It’s Coming Right For Us!!!!‘):
4.30pm, Thursday, August 24, 2023 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website
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This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR we’re joined by semi-regular guest and investigative journalist Jason Wilson [Twitter].
We last spoke to Jason in April about American Night Terrors but it’s a New Mourning in America, and this time around we talk about the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference, conservatism, Australia, millionaires, grifters and more.
4.30pm, Thursday, August 17, 2023 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website
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Nyunggai Warren Mundine was ‘one of the North shore’s most influential movers and shakers’ in 2018 (The Daily Telegraph), his status aided perhaps by the TV show he launched in 2017. Called Mundine Means Business, it was a short-lived program on Fox News Australia (2017–2018).
Whatever its other qualities, Mundine Means Business did not mean good ratings. Or at least, not as far as I can tell. Still, the show did score a phat government subsidy: $220,000, in fact. This was a matter of no small controversy at the time, and was part of the reason why it was announced in February 2019 that ‘Warren Mundine steps down from company that won contracts for Indigenous job services’:
The department [of Indigenous affairs] said in estimates that Mundine was awarded a $300,000 contract (excluding GST) in 2017, split between $200,000 in consultancy fees on Indigenous business policy and $100,000 to establish the television show, after he approached Scullion’s office with the proposal.
Scullion said he did not discuss the issue with Mundine.
In 2018, Mundine was awarded a grant of $220,000 to continue what Scullion described as his “very successful television show”.
He was unable to quantify its success, saying that was a “difficult question to answer” but the department “made a decision” that it was successful.
Nice work if you can get it.
At about that time Mundine the Business Man was parachuted in as the Liberal Party’s candidate for Gilmore in New South Wales. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, there was a 16.09% swing against the Liberals in that contest, resulting in a two-party preferred swing to Labor of 3.34%. Still, Mundine likely did better as a Liberal than he would have as a Liberal Democrat, reportedly having considered replacing David Leyonhjelm in the Senate before deciding to lose for the Liberals in Gilmore.
Speaking of unfinished business, it was reported last week that the right-wing propaganda outlet ‘LibertyWorks’, of which Mundine is Chairman, ‘has not paid more than $172,000 it owes government over failed legal cases’.
To the best of my knowledge, LibertyWorks has now effectively dissolved … though I’m happy to be corrected. Anyway, according to a law-talking guy by way of the Human Rights Law Centre the FACTS inre LibertyWorks Inc v Commonwealth of Australia [2021] HCA 18 are as follows:
The FITS Act was enacted on 28 June 2018, forming part of the Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme (Scheme). The Scheme requires a person to register details about themselves and their foreign principal with the Attorney-General’s Department in certain circumstances. These included where they communicate to the Australian public information about an activity that they expect will be undertaken, where that person is under an arrangement with, in the service of, or under the order or direction of a foreign principal, and where the activity is to be undertaken for the sole or substantial purpose of political or governmental influence.
In August 2019, LibertyWorks held a political event called the Conservative Political Action Conference Australia. The conference mirrored a conference held by the American Conservative Union. Organisers of the American event supported and attended the Australian event.
Pursuant to powers granted under the FITS Act, the Attorney-General’s Department sought from LibertyWorks copies of invitations, letters and other correspondence, which LibertyWorks refused to provide. LibertyWorks commenced proceedings in the High Court, seeking, among other things, a declaration that the provisions of the FITS Act concerning communications activity by a person acting on behalf of a foreign principal were invalid on the ground that they infringed the implied freedom.
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To be honest, I confused ‘LibertyWorks’ with the related phenomenon of ‘Liberty on the Rocks’, a social gathering for proprietarian yoof. In Australia, it too seems to have dissolved, although I expect its ghost will likely be found at the ‘Conservative Political Action Conference’ (CPAC) in Sydney this coming weekend.
Speaking of which, I’ve been trying to drum up interest in the fact that CPAC is being sponsored by GiveSendGo — and that GiveSendGo is raising funds for local neo-Nazis — without much success. But I did note that in today’s episode of the ABC’s The 7.30 Report on antisemitism the boys of the National Socialist Network, which is raising money via GiveSendGo in order to fund its activities, got a guernsey.
The insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not a blip or an aberration. It was the logical outcome of years of a White evangelical subculture’s preparation for war. Religion scholar and former insider Bradley Onishi maps the origins of White Christian nationalism and traces its offshoots in Preparing for War.
Combining his own experiences in the youth groups and prayer meetings of the 1990s with an immersive look at the steady blending of White grievance politics with evangelicalism, Onishi crafts an engrossing account of the years-long campaign of White Christian nationalism that led to January 6. How did the rise of what Onishi calls the New Religious Right, between 1960 and 2015, give birth to violent White Christian nationalism during the Trump presidency and beyond? What propelled some of the most conservative religious communities in the country–communities of which Onishi was once a part–to ignite a cold civil war?
4.30pm, Thursday, August 10, 2023 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website
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Last week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! Cam spoke to Valerie Morse about Julian Batchelor’s crackpot ‘Stop Co-Governance’ tour over the pond in Aotearoa/New Zealand. You can listen to that here. On Sunday, in a choice display of anti-racist community solidarity, a Batchelor meeting in Whangārei was stopped from starting by peaceful protesters blocking the entrance to the venue (Stop Co-Governance Tour in Whangārei met by peaceful protest, Karina Cooper and Mike Dinsdale, Northern Advocate, August 6, 2023).
David Hiscox, the editor and publisher of neo-Nazi blog XYZ, announced on the weekend that he intends to quit publishing.
It’s unclear precisely why, after so many years, Hiscox has decided now is the time to stop promoting neo-Nazism, but in my view:
1) His decision may be related to the mounting legal difficulties that other members of the European Australian Movement (EAM)/National Socialist Network (NSN) have been encountering. From the guilty pleas for violent disorder entered into last week by its Melbourne-based leaders Tom Sewell and Jacob Hersant, to the sentencing of Duncan Cromb and Jackson Pay in Adelaide in June to more than two years behind bars after they plead guilty to ‘possessing documents and records of information for terrorist acts’, to the various drugs and weapons charges being faced by Hiscox’s former podcast mate Jarrad ‘Jaz’ Searby, the boys need lawyers, guns and money.
In this respect at least, the NSN are fortunate in having the support of Christian nationalist crowdfunding site GiveSendGo.
2) The EAM/NSN has boldly declared ‘WAR!’ on the CFMEU: not a recipe for happiness, in my opinion. For his part, Hiscox lauded the smashing of the CFMEU offices in 2021 and, along with his NSN comrades, has gleefully celebrated their role in scaring councils into cancelling drag queen story times for children.
Last time I checked, however, picking on small children and their families is a much, much easier endeavour than terrorising a union full of grown-ups, and this may be one fight the former childrens’ music teacher doesn’t have the stomach for.
3) While it’s possible, even likely, that Hiscox will Carry On in one form or another, it’s spectacularly bad timing now that The Richest Man in the World has been rolling out the red carpet for nazis — including the NSN — and Over 9,000 other species of right-wing gutter crank.
‘Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle’
The Australian franchise of the Trumpist ‘Conservative Political Action Conference’ (CPAC) is meeting on August 19–20 at the Star Event Centre in Sydney. ‘One of Australia’s most technologically advanced venues’, the keynote speaker at Star also happens to be one of Australia’s leading public intellectuals: former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott.
Making very good use of his annual $300,000+ pension, Tone Abet spoke at the first CPAC Australia in 2019, skipped 2020, and then popped up again last year. The former PM also took the opportunity in 2019 to praise Hungary’s far-right PM Viktor Orbán, arguing along with other leading political commentators that we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children. His foreign sojourn naturally earned him bouquets, brickbats and even a potential listing as a foreign agent.
The rest of the cast at CPAC (see below) otherwise bears an uncanny resemblance to the regular line-up at Sky News (Australia’s Fox): a mixture of superannuated reactionaries and minor right-wing YouTube personalities. Mostly, it’s grifters, ranging from the fully professional to the aspiring amateur. All the speakers have great stories, though that associated with Jay Aeba — ‘the political head of a Japanese religious cult that promotes nationalism, xenophobia and the belief that its leader is the reincarnation of an alien from Venus who created life on earth millions of years ago’ — is possibly one of my favourites.
Still, whatever its other merits, CPAC does at least provide an opportunity to identify the major pre-occupations of the right in any given year. Thus, in 2023, in addition to the usual climate denialism and lamentations about the pernicious influence of the left on education, media, politics and public discourse generally, the focus this year is upon defeating the referendum on The Voice to parliament, continuing to oppose ‘political correctness’ — for which the American term ‘woke’ is now a substitute — and denouncing ‘trans rights’.
Of course, along with the usual political whining, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, CPAC also represents an important commercial opportunity and a chance to further cultivate the local Boomerwaffen market: one which is niche, affluent, and vewy, vewy angwy. Hence, in addition to The Mad Monk, Pauline ‘It’s OK To Be White’ Hanson and Moira ‘It’s Not OK To Be Trans’ Deeming, included on the guest list of Very Fine People this year are the co-founders of Christian nationalist crowdfunding website GiveSendGo: Heather Wilson and Jacob Wells. You may remember GiveSendGo from its role in fundraising for the ‘Trucker Convoy’ in early 2022 in Canada (which is how their participation is being promoted), or maybe how a smol army of gay cowboys supported the effort. Or, perhaps, from when the site sprung a massive leak, one which revealed the identities of the thousands who made donations to the freedumb-loving ‘truckies’ (see also : Ottawa truckers’ convoy galvanizes far-right worldwide, Mark Scott, Politico, February 6, 2022).
Notably, GiveSendGo is a ‘gold sponsor’ of CPAC Australia and is currently helping to raise money in order to support local neo-Nazi organising.
Blair Cottrell ~vs~ Weight Supremacy
Last Saturday, July 29, members of the ‘European Australian Movement’ (EAM) / ‘National Socialist Network’ (NSN) held an event at their kamerad Tim Lutze’s ‘Legacy Boxing Gym’ in Industrial Drive, Sunshine West. The gathering occasioned protest and some media attention. On Sunday, July 30, the neo-Nazis gathered at Altona RSL in order to hear speeches by the gang’s leader, Thomas Sewell, its NSW organiser Jack Eltis and the cool and normel Joel Davis. Among other things, Sewell heaped praise upon war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith.
Very Fine People, in other words.
Over the course of the last twelve months, GiveSendGo has been raising funds for Sewell, Roberts and Cottrell.
• Thomas Sewell is currently the leader of the EAM/NSN who earlier this week plead guilty to a violent attack on a group of hikers at a Victorian state park. Prior to this, in January, Sewell was found guilty of recklessly causing injury and affray after assaulting a security guard.
In the end, Wilson and Wells managed to raise over $20,000 for the Balwyn Gauleiter via their site.
• Jim Roberts is one of Sewell’s lieutenants and a fairly recent recruit to EAM/NSN. Roberts gained some minor degree of notoriety last year after he pleaded guilty to public nuisance for ‘attaching swastika stickers to the front of businesses, community organisations and the office of Caulfield MP David Southwick, who is Jewish, as well as onto poles in Caulfield Park’ in an act the presiding magistrate described as ‘one of the most disgusting, vile, repugnant acts of anti-Semitism and racial behaviour that I have ever seen’.
Later, after another incident at a pub, Roberts got into a fight and lost: about $8,000 was raised via GiveSendGo in order to aid in the nazi meathead’s recovery.
• Blair Cottrell is another, even more notorious neo-Nazi, not least because of the worshipful attitude the Christchurch killer adopted towards him. Last weekend, the convicted arsonist and stalker took part in the powerlifting competition at the gym in Sunshine West. Unfortunately, there Cottrell discovered the meaning of weight supremacy and, in attempting to show off to the other nazis, managed to do himself a mischief, viz, tear his pectoral muscle from the bone.
To date, GiveSendGo has helped to generate almost $5,000 to help The Frankston Fuehrer get back on his jack-booted feet.
Does any of this matter? Probably not. Or at least, not to CPAC and its corporate sponsors. That said, when — post-Christchurch massacre — sometime Sky News Australia commentator Lauren ‘The Great Replacement’ Southern was invited to speak at CPAC Australia in 2020, the stench emanating from her grisly body of work was eventually considered simply too powerful to overcome with a mere sprinkling of money. Thus, her invite was rescinded and it — like so much else — was consigned to The Memory Hole. Three years later, the fact that CPAC Australia’s Gold Sponsor is also helping to fund the activities of neo-Nazis — men who actually tried to recruit the killer before his murderous rampage took place, and who celebrate its occurence — is in some ways remarkable. In others, it simply re-confirms the increasing convergence of extreme-, radical- and far-right doctrines under the umbrella of supposed ‘conservatism’.
The World According to CPAC
Below is an incomplete list of the glittering array of talent that has performed or will be performing at the Australian franchise of CPAC.
2023
Tony Abbott • Jay Aeba • John Anderson • Alex Antic • Steve Baxter • Bronwyn Bishop • Matt Camenzuli • Nick Cater • Gordon Chang • Andrew Cooper • Bella d’Abrera • Rowan Dean • Moira Deeming • Sall Grover • Pauline Hanson • Gary Johns • Alan Jones • Barnaby Joyce • Sam Kennard • Michael Kroger • Bridget McKenzie • Tania Mihailuk • Tim Mitchell • Nyunggai Warren Mundine • Maurice Newman • Ted O’Brien • Michelle Pearse • Keith Pitt • Ian Plimer • Jacinta Nampijinpa Price • Matt Schlapp • Matthew Sheahan • Amanda Stoker • Tal Tsfany • Chaim Tsibos [?] • Jacob Wells • Matthew Whitaker • Daniel Wild • Heather Wilson • Rachael Wong
2022
Tony Abbott • Jay Aeba • Jim Allan • Alex Antic • Ross Cameron • Matt Canavan • Nick Cater • Andrew Cooper • Daisy Cousens • Bella d’Abrera • Rowan Dean • Anthony Dillon • Kevin Donnelly • Nigel Farage • Topher Field • Alan Jones • Mark Latham • Johannes Leak • Zion Lights • Teena McQueen • Nataliya Melnyk • Jason Miller • James Morrow • Warren Mundine • Alfred Ngaro • Rita Panahi • Fred Pawle • Ian Plimer • Jacinta Price • Malcolm Roberts • Matt Schlapp • Michael Shellenberger • Amanda Stoker • Matthew Whitaker • Dan Wild • Zuby
2020
Eric Abetz • David Adler • Alex Antic • Bettina Arndt • Ross Cameron • Andrew Cooper • Rowan Dean • Emma Eros • Alan Jones • Craig Kelly • Mark Latham • Teena McQueen • Warren Mundine • Jacinta Price • John Ruddick • Tom Switzer • Daniel Wild
2019
Tony Abbott • Janet Albrechtsen • Peta Credlin • Nigel Farage • Raheem Kassam • Mark Meadows • Jeanine Pirro • Matt Schlapp
(August 1, 2023) : Tom Sewell and Jacob Hersant today plead guilty to violent disorder in the County Court. ‘County Court Judge Kellie Blair ordered both Sewell and Hersant undergo pre-sentence reports before returning to court in September. Violent disorder carries a maximum sentence of six months’ jail. Both men remain on bail.’ See : Neo-Nazi leader pleads guilty to attack on hikers, Erin Pearson, The Age, August 1, 2023.]
On Saturday, July 29, a march and rally in opposition to a neo-Nazi gathering, organised by the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism, was held in Sunshine West. Assembling outside a local supermarket in the early afternoon, the rally marched to Legacy Boxing Gym in Industrial Drive, the site of the gathering, to scream and shout at the neo-Nazis hidden inside the gym (and behind lines of police).
According to Marta Pascual Juanola, ‘Police stopped anti-fascism protesters from clashing with a group of neo-Nazis holding a “white powerlifting competition” at a boxing gym in Melbourne’s west on Saturday’ (Anti-fascist protesters rally outside neo-Nazi weightlifting event, The Age, July 29, 2023) while news dot com dot au reports that ‘A gym in Melbourne has been swarmed by Aussies wanting to send a message about a twisted event that was being hosted there’ (‘Never again’: Protest at Melbourne neo-Nazi powerlifting event, July 30, 2023); CARF’s Jasmine Duff reckons ‘Yesterday’s protest showed that the left in Melbourne is prepared to confidently take a stand against these fascists on their own turf’ (The day the left marched on Melbourne’s neo-Nazi gym, Red Flag, July 30, 2023).
The march and rally attracted an estimated 300 or so people and is the second such rally to have been organised by CARF, the first having taken place on February 25. Both events helped to generate further attention on the status of the gym as the organising and training centre for members of the neo-Nazi organisations ‘European Australian Movement’ (EAM)/’National Socialist Network’ (NSN) in Melbourne, but were obviously radically insufficient to remove it from Industrial Drive. Note that in response to the rally in February, and addressing concerns over ‘alleged fascist activity’, Brimbank Mayor Bruce Lancashire stated that ‘There is no place for racism in Brimbank’ but ‘Council does not have the power to revoke or cancel a planning permit under the Planning and Environment Act 1989’.
A two-day event, on Sunday the neo-Nazis gathered elsewhere to hear Sydney-BASED HVAC Guy Jack Eltis, Twitter nazi Joel Davis and Balwyn Gauleiter and EAM/NSN lvl boss Tom Sewell talk to a smol selection of The Master Race. Of Eltis, Nick McKenzie (Soldiers of hate: Army investigates neo-Nazis in its ranks, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 23, 2023) writes:
The NSN’s New South Wales cell leader is Jack Eltis, a tradesman who has conducted training events for neo-Nazis in NSW. The NSN has nominated him to fill any national leadership vacuum if the group’s most prominent member, Melbourne man Tom Sewell, is jailed in connection to aggravated burglary charges. Sewell has been charged but is yet to face a committal hearing in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.
Eltis has posted on encrypted chat groups, reviewed by this masthead, about how the “tyrannical Jewish system and its police and security apparatus are attempting to convict Thomas Sewell with overreaching charges”.
In the posts, Eltis attacks counter-terrorism authorities who have charged NSN members in Victoria, NSW and South Australia with “ludicrous fabricated terrorism charges”.
“The men in our organisation know that no temporary sacrifice is too great for the future of the white race,” he says.
When contacted by this masthead, Eltis was unapologetic about his leadership role in the NSN and attacked the media and counter-terror agencies for what he claimed was the harassment of his organisation. He confirmed he believed there was “no pathway for political change via the current Western liberal democratic framework” but said the NSN rejected the use of violence.
Uh-huh.
Prior to their gathering at Lutze’s gym, the EAM/NSN staged a photo shoot in Geelong, first outside the Town Hall and later the local CFMEU office. As reported by Mark Murray (CFMEU boss John Setka responds to recent neo-Nazi stunt at Geelong headquarters, The Geelong Advertiser, July 27, 2023), Setka’s response came ‘after the NSN distributed a message on mobile messaging app Telegram, seen by the Geelong Advertiser, that read: “West Melbourne activists broadcasted a message directly to the cowardly CFMEU”’. Elsewhere on Telegram, NSN member Stefan Eracleous (pictured above) joined in the chorus, declaring Setka ‘a corrupt individual’ who is ‘hated by thousands of your own members who [Setka] compelled to get vaccinated in order to work’ and whose support for maintaining a ‘diverse’ union membership (ie, as opposed to the CFMEU being a Whites-only institution as Eracleous wants) betrays the union’s traditions. He concludes that ‘You literally hate your own members. Well guess what they also hate you for not doing right by them and being psychopant [sic] for Daniel Andrews.’
In any event, while the EAM/NSN’s declaration of “WAR!” on the CFMEU is unlikely to win the boys many frens among unionists, the neo-Nazis did manage to find an ally in The Richest Man in the World, Elon Musk. In November 2022, the filthy-rich idiot opened the floodgates on nazis on Twitter (along with child pr0n and animal abuse) but it was only this week that the restored NSN account was again removed after media reportage. Hence according to Eric Hananoki (Update: Twitter placed ads for USA Today, National Women’s Soccer League, and other major brands on a terrorism-linked neo-Nazi account, Media Matters for America, July 28, 2023), Twitter, the micro-blogging site Emerald Mine Guy bought on a whim for US $44 billion last year:
… placed ads for brands like Honeywell, Discovery, National Women’s Soccer League, the Pittsburgh Steelers, USA Today, and Manchester City on the verified account of the National Socialist Network, a leading neo-Nazi group that engages in violence, has connections to terrorism, and uses Elon Musk’s platform to recruit new members. Twitter’s actions are reminder to advertisers that despite rebranding efforts by Musk and Linda Yaccarino, Twitter (now called X) remains a toxic environment for companies.
Curiously, former children’s music teacher and UniMelb liberal turned NSN member David Hiscox has also lost his account, though numerous other members of the NSN and Over 9,000 other nazi accounts remain at liberty to propagate genocidal doctrines. Of the event itself, more infos will no doubt be obtained in the future but in the meantime see also : Fascism will fall when action speaks louder than words, Tom Tanuki, Independent Australia, July 29, 2023.
Finally:
• The ding-dong battle for the hearts and minds of White nationalist male yoof being fought by the EAM/NSN and Dr Jim Saleam’s Sydney-BASED ‘Australia First Party’ is currently being won by the former. Hence the Canberra-BASED sometime esoteric racial Presbyerian Matthew Grant, formerly of the defunct AFP yoof wing ‘Eureka Youth League’, has taken his bat and ball (AKA the ‘Australian Natives Association’), gone home to Sewell, and seemingly embraced ‘1488 not 1788’. Or at least, that’s what one of Dr Jim’s flunkeys reckons. Hence, according to the bizarr0 Nathan Sykes, Grant is now a treacherous Millennial, while his podcast partner Joel Davis is a ‘state plant'(!).
Just a few months ago (Senior neo-Nazi slips out of Australia hoping to fight Russian army, Nick McKenzie and Anthony Galloway, The Sydney Morning Herald, March 23, 2023) ‘Grant stressed he was opposed to neo-Nazism as a “foreign ideology” and that the Australian Natives Association was not an extremist group but rather an organisation that “believes in a white Australia on social and economic grounds”’. Further, ‘Asked whether it was appropriate for Australian Natives Association members to hold gun licences or an approved hunting organisation registration, NSW Police said it would not comment on specific investigations, individuals, or groups but was monitoring the activities and rhetoric of racist and extremist groups’.
Plus ça change.
For those of you coming in late, in February 2022 Sykes was found guilty of threatening a journalist, and got a slap on the wrist (a 19-month intensive corrections order and 150 hours of community service) as a result. Nick McKenzie (Far-right extremist troll pleads guilty to threatening journalist, The Sydney Morning Herald, February 24, 2022):
The charges relate to repeated threats he made in March 2018 against freelance journalist Luke McMahon, who had written an article exposing Mr Sykes as a notorious online troll. In one of the threatening recordings from March 2018, Mr Sykes allegedly threatened to “stamp your [journalist Luke McMahon’s] f—ing teeth into the sidewalk” and send associates to Mr McMahon’s house.
“I’m going to torture you to an absolute delight little Lukey Luke. Absolute delight. And I have people looking at you right now staring at you from across the f—ing street from where you live, enjoy this mother-f—er,” Mr Sykes was allegedly recorded saying.
“You’re dead, and baby, I’m catching up with you.”
Another threat issued by Mr Sykes said: “Pity you weren’t home, but at least we know where you live so, we’ll be saying ‘G’day’.”
• Seemingly TRIGGERED by the prospect of CARF’s rally, the EAM/NSN made minor nuisances of themselves ahead of the rally, with one member posing for a photograph outside the home of local comedian Sean Bedlam. This was apparently done in order to intimidate Sean, who is currently battling cancer, but whose major crime was YARDing at the boys at their demo to demand Lebensraum in May.
• John HoWARd has done the country proud again in the pages of The New York Times, with his batshit claim that Colonization Was the ‘Luckiest Thing’ to Happen to Australia (Natasha Frost, July 26, 2023). The former Prime Minister’s Boomerwaffen historical analysis has naturally been the subject of some derision but, in fairness to the warmonger, it could just as easily be recognised as the bedrock of Australian conservatism.
In its current mode, this ideology is reflected in the program of the Australian franchise of the Trumpist ‘Conservative Political Action Conference’, set to take place at Star Event Centre in Sydney next month, when it will be addressed by another former PM, Tony Abbott, who will be giving the keynote speech. Joining The Mad Monk at the carnival of reactionary stoopid will be the founders of Christian nationalist crowdfunding site GiveSendGo, which has happily raised tens of thousands of dollars for the NSN …
Two Greek anarchists are making molotov cocktails. One says to the other: "So who will we throw these at then?" The other replies: "What are you, some kind of fucking intellectual?"
