It was the best of times, it was the worst of times : Australian Nazis in 2025

So … how did the Australian far-right go in 2025?

Of the dozen or so grouplets I included in July’s ‘Guide’, the Australian Jewish Association/PHONy/Avi Yemini (‘Rebel Media Australia’) on the one hand and the National Socialist Network/National Workers Alliance/The Noticer on the other have had the most political impact, while the rest have generally remained marginal. That said, ‘satellite groups like the local ‘Traditionalists’ (see : Traditional Britain Group), British Australian Community (BAC) and English-Speaking Union (ESU Victoria Branch), various other cultural associations, prominent binfluencers, online propagandists (Cairns News, The National Observer et. al.) and publishers (for example, Imperium Press)’ are becoming increasingly influential in the wider milieu from which radical right-wing grouplets often spring, and while “The Jewish Question” (sic) engenders a variety of “Answers” and its boundaries are somewhat fluid, the acceptance or rejection of antisemitism continues to demarcate the far right.

“I’m not in the NSN, but …”

If Maximum Chips was correct to claim that there were no neo-Nazis in Australia (or Europe, or North America) in 2017, then the NSN’s emergence a few years later is something of a mystery. If, on the other hand, Nazis have been a near-permanent part of the Australian political landscape since the 1930s, what requires explanation is their growth and seeming popularity among the right more generally:– especially over the course of the last decade. In which case, tracing the involvement of key individuals and their various political projects in the promotion of antisemitism, white nationalism and xenophobia may help explain this phenomenon. So too, the ways in which the fracturing of the parliamentary right has opened up political space for more determinedly reactionary forces to gain support. This helps to explain why a Catholic arch-Tory and Cambridge graduate like Dr Stephen McInerney can express support for Tom Sewell’s White Australia Party without rebuke.

For the NSN, 2025 was, until recently, a banner year. Specifically, one approved by New South Wales Police and reading ‘Abolish The Jewish Lobby’. Unfortunately for them — and outside of Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism and NSW Police (whose Commissioner, Mal Lanyon, had only two months previously declared a “laser-like” focus on combating antisemitism in the state) — the November publicity stunt generated immediate and very strong public disapproval, public exposure of many of its participants, and even deportation in the case of South African engineer Matthew Gruter.* (Gruter, at least, was able to obtain some financial compensation for his troubles with the help of Warren Mundine’s chums at Give Send Go.) Of course, the NSN could argue that they were well-behaved and submitted the appropriate application to authorities (which was accepted without question), so why the fuss? No fair!

Still, while God Hears Pleas of the Innocent is the sixth album by Killdozer, released in 1995, The Sydney Morning Herald was apparently able to ignore such entreaties and, in a series of articles, published in 2025, named a number of the neo-Nazis NSW Police gave their legal blessing to assemble (and declaim Blut und Ehre!). Apart from NSW state leader Jack Eltis, Adam Carrig, Christopher Carrig, Jacob Cooper, Joel Davis, Alexander Gabriel ‘Gabe’ Mare, Christien Mutton, Martin Przybylek, Sean Roberts, Gabriel Seymour, Cooper Stephens and Oscar Tuckfield all got a guernsey.

Prior to the publicity stunt in NSW in November, the NSN also had a win in Victoria in August, when around 200 or so of its members and supporters gathered in Ballan, then marched through Melbourne (with an escort kindly provided by Victoria Police). A few weeks later, VicPol were again on hand to ensure that the NSN were able to lead a march of thousands of c00kers and flagwits to the Victorian state parliament, where Tom Sewell, as Australia’s Special Envoy to Promote Antisemitism, was able to call for unity among (White) Australians what don’t like all them migrant workers Coming Over Here … because of (((You Know Who))).

Tapping into xenophobia in this fashion performs much the same function as Islamophobia did for the United Patriots Front (one of whose members, Kevin Combes, was jailed for rape in October. See also : An Andrew Tate insider is helping Australian Nazis recruit teens, Sherryn Groch, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 1, 2025). But while these sentiments are widely-shared, the especially vigorous and youthful expression given white nationalism by the NSN naturally attracts the most militant, while Boomerwaffen on Facebook can share The Noticer‘s agitprop promoting the group to their beleaguered family and friends.

Aside from successful publicity stunts and a growing national and international audience/market especially thrilled by such displays, in 2025 the NSN also encountered numerous legal difficulties. Thus: while Sewell was given a slap-on-the-wrist by the courts for intimidating a police officer and his partner; Joel Davis was denied bail after being charged for allegedly directing his nazi flying monkeys to harass Allegra Spender & Co. (pro-tip: don’t target VIPs); Jimeone Roberts received a 75-day prison sentence for monstering some old ladies; Jacob Hersant is yet to be sentenced after being found GUILTY! of doing a Nazi salute in public** and FAILING! in his appeal against a custodial sentence; and more than a dozen Lads — along with Sewell, they are Nathan Matthew Bull (24), Billy Michael Conheady (26), Haymish Busscher (18), Blake Cathcart (30), Jake Crockett (20), Zack Steven Dewaard (19), Augustus Coolie Hartigan (22), Jaeden Bernard Johnson (29), Timothy Holger Lutze (35), Michael Nelson (22), Michael Saarinen (18), Ryan Williams (35) and Yan Zakharin (20) — are each facing charges including violent disorder and affray for allegedly participating in the assault upon Camp Sovereignty in August following the March for White Australia.

Finally, the horrific Bondi mass shooting on December 14 has created further pressure upon authorities to tackle antisemitism. And while much emphasis has been placed upon the alleged role of the Palestinian solidarity movement in cultivating it, it would be truly extraordinary if the budding génocidaires of the NSN didn’t come under even closer scrutiny. Whether or not the shotgun wedding between the c00kers and flagwits of the M4WA and the nazis of the NSN is again able to parade the white nationalist cause on January 26 is an open question.

* In addition, last week: ‘A British national in Australia has had his visa cancelled and faces deportation for allegedly displaying Nazi symbols.’
** Bad Neighbour Damien Richardson also got pinged for doing a Nazi salute at an NWA meeting in 2024. On December 26, it was reported that ‘Zachery Hook, 18, has been charged with six offences, including performing Nazi salutes and placing extremist stickers on public buildings.’