As in 2023, here’s a brief review of what appeared on the blog in 2024.*
In January, I wrote several posts about … nazis … and — also — Invasion Day: Tom Sewell’s gang planned to parade thru Gadigal lands for the occasion but, sadly, NSW police proved to be less cooperative than their Victorian counterparts have been. Oh, I made some notes about defunct yoof gang the ‘Southern Cross Soldiers’ too.
Apart from several posts about Yeah Nah Pasaran! (see below), I made one token post about #ausunions on Gaza in February. (See also : Official Myths and Enduring Fantasies, Backlash, March 19, 2024.)
While February was when Tim Lutze’s nazi boxing gym formally closed (though Mr Lutze continues to train the boys for RaHoWa), I noted this in March, along with some local anarchist talks, a statement on the fifth anniversary of the Christchurch massacre, Moira Deeming’s legal aktion versus John Pesutto, and a rather pathetic repetition of Lady Parker’s original (March 18, 2023) publicity stunt. The reenactment also starred a very womanly ex-Lad named Matt Trihey: a self-described ‘free speech advocate’ (and ah, white nationalist) who recently got a brief mention in Former Neighbours star Damien Richardson charged by Victoria Police for performing Nazi salute at Melbourne event (David Estcourt, Mike Lorigan, Alysia Thomas-Sam, ABC, December 18, 2024). Another supportive fellow in attendance was Mr Phillip Simpson, an ‘alleged neo-Nazi accused of performing a Hitler salute and threatening to kill a police officer’ who last week ‘had his hearing adjourned after experiencing a “severe panic attack”’.
In April, I noted the existence of a federal government inquiry into ‘Right wing extremist movements in Australia’ — which published its Report this month — and also some thing called ‘May Day’.
Yeah Nah May.
June saw naughty li’l nazi and ex-Tory Stefan Eracleous get a slap on the wrist from the courts (and be subject to allegations of ripping-off Sewell & The Gang), the current crop of VIP Tories declare ‘Never Again’ and, not entirely un-relatedly, VIP mourning over the death of Stefan Romaniw.
July 25th is the International Day of Solidarity with Antifascist Prisoners.
In August I wrote a bit about the weirdness inre Active Clubs at the government inquiry into RWE in July, how the CFMEU got into heaps big media trouble (and placed into government administration; though, as of this date, while many officials have exited the organisation, there’s been very few criminal prosecutions), and finally about how some local binfluencers announced their intention to bring batshit right-wing propagandist Candace Owens Down Under.
There were more National Socialist Network shenanigans in September (and in the boys’ spiritual heartland), while Lauren ‘The Great Replacement’ Southern (among others) lost an important source of income with the exposure of Putin’s gangsta state’s sponsorship of propaganda network Tenet Media.
October saw old mate Jacob Hersant be judged a very naughty boy, Chairman Cottrell join the Ordinary Dumbs & Mads of Patriotic Alternative in Merrie Old England, and a boys’ parade in Corowa. Finally, Candace Owens met Fortress Australia and Vashti Fox authored “I believe in the sun. Even when it’s not shining:” Militant antifascism in Australia, 1970-2016 (UWA, 2024).
There were Rising Tides in November, Cheet0 Mussolini RETVRNED and there was some wonderful (and completely non-Nazi) poetry sadly unread in court.
In December, I wrote this.
*For radio/podcast, see also: Yeah Nah Pasaran!, which this year comprised interviews with Nicole Nguyen, Cam Wilson, Betsy James Quammen, Jason Wilson, Tarek Younis, Rae Jereza, Arun Kundnani, Audrey Truschke, Claudia Leeb, Chris Wilson, Tyler West, Alex Hanna, Fran Amery, Jordana Silverstein, Stephanie Wescott, Amy Cooter, Spencer Sunshine, Shane Burley & Ben Lorber, Aurelien Mondon, Tinfoil Tales, Rachel Withers, Susannah Crockford, Tomas Rothaus, Joe Mulhall, Gabriel Kuhn, Ariel Bogle, Lucy Hamilton, James Hogg, Talia Lavin, Rebecca Yeo, Noelle Cook, David Neiwert, Amanda Moore, Benjamin Moffitt and Elise Thomas.
