Above : Hugo ‘Auspill’ Lennon, a key figure in promoting the March for White Australia, celebrity scion of a massive property developer in Australia, and heir to hundreds of millions: an extremely fortunate son.
Yeah Nah …
This week on Yeah Nah Pasaran! on 3CR, Cam & I share some thoughts on the March for (White) Australia of August 31.
See also : Yeah Nah Pasaran #260 w Kaz Ross on the National Socialist Network, March Australia +++ : August 14, 2025 /// Against The March For White Australia : August 31, 2025 (August 23, 2025) /// Just Say F*ck Off to The March for White Australia, August 31, 2025 (August 30, 2025).
(Last week’s episode of YNP! was a repeat of a previous episode with Kaz Ross on sovereign citizens; on August 21, Cam had a yarn with Johnathan M. Katz about substack and nazis.)
4.30pm, September 4, 2025 /// 855AM, digital, streaming, Community Radio Plus
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… I Ain’t Marching For a White Australia
The March for (White) Australia obviously made a big splash, on account of its size, neo-Nazi leadership, and endorsement by some of the parliamentary right.
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According to the ABC, an estimated 15,000 marched in Sydney and 5,000 in Perth, while The Age reports 5-10,000 in Perth, and 6,000 participated in the combined March for White Australia and the ‘pro-Palestine’/’anti-fascist’ rallies in Melbourne; according to The Guardian:
New South Wales police said an estimated 15,000 people … attended the protest in Sydney.
Queensland police confirmed about 6,000 protesters came out in Brisbane for the protest. In Melbourne, police estimated 5,000 took to the streets, but this included the protesters and antifascist counter-protesters.
Victoria police said there were an estimated 3,000 people representing the March for Australia, 800 people from the Rally for Palestine group, and the remainder of people from joining as part of “multiple other groups”.
There were also nationalist assemblies in Adelaide, Cairns, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Townsville and some satellite events in other locations (an estimated 500 in Newcastle, 600 in Echuca/Moama, and 250 in Wodonga).
Obviously, crowd estimates can vary wildly, often depend on the perspective/bias of the observer, and independent experts seem to be rarely available to provide more accurate figures. Suffice it say that, across Australia, tens of thousands marched on Sunday to voice their hostility to migrant workers.
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The neo-Nazi leadership of the March was provided by Thomas ‘Dickhead’ Sewell and his National Socialist Network (NSN), a groupuscule concentrated in the major cities and especially Melbourne, its birthplace. The role of the NSN was obvious from the beginning, though semi-farcical attempts to deny this were of course broadly expressed by March supporters (and the usual gormless, frequently disingenuous, figures in media and politics). In any case, fresh from a successful gathering at Phoenix Caravan Park in Ballan and a police-escorted jackboot parade of their own through Melbourne’s CBD late at night, the NSN were warmly received by Marchers in Melbourne, and the budding führer from Balwyn was the keynote speaker to address the throngs from the steps of the Victorian parliament, where his ‘anti-migrant/pro-Australia’ rhetoric was also applauded by the useful idiots.
Unfortunately for Sewell and the NSN, as they left later in the afternoon, they (allegedly) engaged in a group assault upon Indigenous people gathered at Camp Sovereignty in Kings Domain. As a result, this morning Sewell was charged with violent disorder, affray, assault by kicking, discharge missile and other offences by detectives from Melbourne CIU. (Also charged was one of his flunkeys, Nathan Bull). Whether or not other (alleged) participants are charged remains open to question, but certainly, as well as vividly confirming — again — the intrinsically violent racism of the neo-Nazi political project, the (alleged) attack has brought the group to wider and understandably hostile — outside of the Marchers — attention.
Of course, in addition to these latest charges, Sewell is also facing charges inre the (alleged) d0xxing of a police officer: it was for this reason that he was at court and available to be arrested outside of it by police yesterday. In this context, on the occasion of a previous, unsuccessful appeal by the prosecution for a more punitive sentence to be imposed upon him after being found guilty of another assault, the fact that Sewell and another flunkey were spared imprisonment, considered good prospects for ‘rehabilitation’, and even wished ‘good luck’ by the sentencing judge, might imply that he’s reached the limits of the (legal and political) largesse afforded him to date by the courts … we’ll find out eventually, I guess.
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The March was endorsed and supported by a smol range of MPs and other public figures on the (far) right, including Bob Katter (KAP), Pauline Hanson (PHONy) and Jacinta Price (Tory), among others (see : All the politicians who attended anti-immigration marches — and what they’ve got to say for themselves, Daanyal Saeed, Crikey, September 2, 2025).
That’s all for now, but I’ll be back with some additional notes in the near-future.
See also : Neo-Nazis and racist rallies: why it’s important the Australian media call them for what they are, Denis Muller, The Conversation, September 2, 2025 | How Australia’s anti-immigration rallies were amplified online by the global far right, Callum Jones and Kurt Sengul, The Conversation, September 2, 2025 | How neo-Nazis used the shield of ‘ordinary mums and dads’ anti-immigration rallies to sell white supremacy, Ariel Bogle, Nino Bucci and Stephanie Convery, The Guardian, September 2, 2025 | How mainstream media and politicians fuelled Australia’s biggest far-right rally, Osman Faruqi, Lamestream, September 1, 2025.
