It’s been a while. Of late:
Local
• The neo-Nazis had a minor triumph of the swill this week, with the National Socialist Network’s Tom Sewell WINNING! in court after being found Not Guilty for a Mickey Mouse charge of ‘offensive behaviour’ arising from a NSN jackboot parade around Ballarat in December 2023.
Mr Sewell, who repped himself in court, was aided in this endeavour by a local Member of The Public, Mark Doery, who testified that he, for one, was not offended by the spectacle: “It just looked like a bunch of boys in a group, going for a walk. Nothing stood out as offensive to me, but that’s just me.”
Curiously, according to anti-fascist research group The White Rose Society, Mr Doery (above) was not only not offended at the time, but was later inspired to join the NSN in Ballan in early August and to participate with his new (?) chums in the March for White Australia later that month. That said, the prosecution’s case was weak and unlikely to succeed in any event.
• Another NSN member from Queensland, Zachary Mark Makkinga (above), was less fortunate than his Daddy, being found Guilty of a NSN stickering campaign in Milton in Brisbane in February (“Jews, chinks, arabs and blacks f— off”, “conquered not stolen”, “foreign workers today, rapists murderers tomorrow”, “Anzacs died for White Australia. Jews, chinks, arabs and blacks f**k off” and so on: the usual, in other words). This was the second time Mr MaKKKinga amirite has been pinged for playing stoopid games, last time in South Bank in 2023. His stoopid prize on this occasion was six months imprisonment, wholly suspended for a period of 12 months.
• The ‘organisers’ (a term I use loosely) of the ‘March for White Australia’ are going for a threepeat: having Marched in August and again in October, they’ve announced that January 26 — variously known as Australia, Invasion and Survival Day — is another Big Day Out for c00kers, flagwits, white nationalists and neo-Nazis. In the last few years, January 26 has witnessed massive f— off rallies by Indigenous peoples and supporters, so that’ll be interesting. Note also that the NSN has declared that January 26 is their next Big Day Out.
And/Or General
• Decoherence Media is a newly-hatched monitoring project, ‘an independent, journalist-founded nonprofit investigating authoritarian and anti-democratic movements using open-source and data-driven methods’. Its first, three-part investigation is into Rope Culture, another neo-Nazi website by the people who brought you Iron March:
In November 2019, a significant far-right data leak surfaced online in the shape of the SQL database of the notorious neo-Nazi forum, Iron March … But researchers and journalists appear to have missed an insightful cache of information shedding further light on evolving contemporary far-right movements: The original torrent file containing the Iron March database also contained the full web server for the website that hosted Iron March’s electronic magazine (e-zine), “NOOSE.”
TLDR : Iron March was the birthplace (inter alia) of the abortive neo-Nazi grouplet Antipodean Resistance, which later collapsed into the NSN. Jacob Hersant (VIC) was active on the site and a member of AR. Hersant was also recently appointed co-leader of the NSN (along with Jack Eltis (NSW)) while Tom Sewell enjoys a rest at Barwon Prison. There he awaits trial for allegedly leading an assault by NSN members on the sacred site at Camp Sovereignty: the concluding, celebratory chapter of the August March for White Australia. In any case, while the Iron March leak took place in late 2019, the most serious look at the site and its Australian dimensions only took place in September 2025 with Leaked records trace path from overseas Neo-Nazi groups to Australia’s emboldened far-right (Danny Tran and Madi Chwasta, ABC, September 6, 2025).
The second part of the investigation — Uncovered: Identities and tactics behind the neo-Nazi “Rope Culture” web server — nominated Stephen Braddy as one of the zine’s editors, which was nice. On Braddy, see : Inside the twisted world of a braggart Australian neo-Nazi (Mark Schliebs, The Australian, November 15, 2019). Finally, mAAAd props to Decoherence for providing a handy guide to exploring the FashyLeaks:
As part of Decoherence Media’s article series investigating the leaked web server from the neo-Nazi online magazine Rope Culture, we’re releasing an online data interface for searching through that data, which we’re calling FashyLeaks. Besides Rope Culture, FashyLeaks also contains the Iron March database, featuring many enhancements over the original leaked version (described at the bottom of the article).
We also made a video version of this guide that you can watch.
See also : Iron March Leaks : Aussie Pride Edition (1), November 10, 2019 /// Iron March Leaks : Aussie Pride Edition (2), February 28, 2020 /// Yeah Nah Pasaran! #058 w H.E. Upchurch on Iron March & 09A : March 4, 2021.
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