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<\/a><\/p>\nIt’s been four years<\/em> since I last<\/a> cast an increasingly-weary eye over some of the main (formal, organised and chiefly extra-parliamentary) expressions of far-right ideology in Australia. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then (see<\/em> Tom Tanuki<\/a> for more), and in what follows I’m not attempting to summarise the period but rather take note of the somewhat changed organisational landscape of the far right. Hence:<\/p>\n In 2021, Tom Sewell’s European Australian Movement\/National Socialist Network (EAM\/NSN) was just beginning to make baby-Hitler steps into the public domain. (Note that the EAM is intended to be the more palatable face of the NSN, an entr\u00e9e into neo-Nazism for normies.) Since then, it’s proven to be reasonably adept at surviving and expanding its size and scope, and Sewell’s uncompromising commitment to promoting neo-Nazism has won the wannabe Aussie fuehrer and his flunkeys an appreciative international audience. The EAM\/NSN has been assisted in these endeavours by the willingness of the Christian nationalist crowdfunding website GiveSendGo — the sometime sponsor<\/a> of Warren Mundine’s CPAC Australia — to help them raise<\/a> tens of thousands of dollars in order to promote antisemitism and race-hate. This fact remains largely ignored in media coverage of the EAM\/NSN (and of Mundine and CPAC), an exception being Inside the conservative forum rallying troops against the Voice<\/a> (Lisa Visentin, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 19, 2023):<\/p>\n CPAC Australia organisers had no comment to questions about its sponsor Give Send Go, a Christian crowdfunding website appearing to host fundraising efforts for the legal costs for Australian neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell who was convicted last year of assaulting a Nine security guard. The site was also used to fundraise for medical costs for far-right leader Blair Cottrell.<\/p>\n This masthead does not suggest that the No campaign or CPAC Australia share the views of extremists who have used Give Send Go to fundraise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Post-October 7, and without batting an eyelid, Mr Mundine joined<\/a> many other VIPs (via SayNoToAntisemitism.org) in declaring that ‘AUSTRALIAN LEADERS SAY NO TO ANTISEMITISM’.<\/p>\n \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n While the EAM\/NSN was subject to extensive reportage by Nick McKenzie & Co. back in 2021 (and last year an ‘expert’ wrognly testified to a Senate inquiry that the ‘Active Club’ model<\/a> was only introduced Down Under in 2024), there’s been more reportage on the deployment of the organising model elsewhere — in, for example, Tracking Canada\u2019s fascist fight clubs<\/a> (‘CBC\u2019s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada\u2019s white nationalist ‘active clubs’ gather to prepare for violence’), Eric Szeto, Ivan Angelovski, Christian Paas-Lang, Grant LaFleche and Jordan Pearson, CBC, July 18, 2025.<\/p>\n The eclipse of Islamophobia as an organising focus for street mobilisations has had some effect, especially post-COVID-19, in reducing the number of formal organisations in 2025 but, by the same token, created a likely increase in various forms of (online and offline) networking. In 2021 I wrote: ‘In general, while the milieu\/gutter\/swamp out of which Reclaim et. al. emerged in 2015 has remained a pool of glistening, principally online talent, its membership has evolved, with some leading elements embracing neo-Nazism and explicit White supremacist doctrines’. And for ‘a useful summary of some critical aspects of this (d)evolution’, see<\/em> : The Rise of the Fascist Cadre: Shifts in Far-Right Organising in Australia<\/a>, C-REX – Center for Research on Extremism, May 18, 2021:<\/p>\n Jordan McSwiney examines the state of the far right in Australia today, tracing its evolution through three recent phases of organising. Beginning with a series of protest mobilisations and followed by a period of electoral growth, the Australian far right is today increasingly coalescing around more extreme and potentially terroristic neo-Nazi cells, raising significant concerns for Australian security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Further:<\/p>\n ‘In terms of media and propaganda, while The Unshackled and XYZ blogs, among numerous other right-wing propaganda outlets, continue to generate a smol number of clicks, the decision by NewsCorpse management to make Sky News Australia an Antipodean Fox News<\/a> has to some extent eclipsed their appeal among local racists. On the other hand, just as Sky (and NewsCorpse properties generally) shift further to the right, political activists and propagandists on the fringes are blessed with opportunities to assume increasingly ‘extreme’ positions.’ To The Unhinged and The XYZ — the poor racist’s substitute for the ABC — may also be added the more determinedly antisemitic The Noticer. And finally: to the ‘smol explosion of academic interest in the far-right’ I referred to in 2021 has been added, post-October 7, a sudden interest in anti-antisemitism, which cause has attracted a variety of celebrities (like Mr Mundine) across government, media and entertainment. (For a more nuanced view on the subject on antisemitism, see<\/em> : Jewish Council of Australia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Anyway<\/a> …<\/p>\n S C R A T C H E D<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 Please note that while this list aims to be reasonably comprehensive, it is not<\/em> exhaustive. Not included are satellite groups like the local ‘Traditionalists’ (see<\/em> : Traditional Britain Group<\/a>), 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<\/a>). I’ve also not listed increasingly popular forms of Christian nationalism or made note of their outsized influence, Hindutva Down Under, The Manosphere in its numerous iterations<\/a>, or more mainstream fountains of right-wing propaganda.<\/p>\n STILL STRUGGLING FOR POLITICAL S U P R E M A C Y<\/strong><\/p>\n 1) Australia First Party<\/strong> (AFP) 2) *Australian Jewish Association<\/strong> (AJA) 3) Australian League of Rights<\/strong> (ALOR) 4) Australian Natives Association<\/strong> (ANA) 5) British-Israel-World Federation<\/strong> (BIWF) 5 1\/2) Christian Identity<\/strong> (CI) 5 3\/4) Christian Separatist<\/strong> 6) 6 1\/2) Combat 18<\/strong> (C18) 6 3\/4) Creativity<\/strong> 7) National Socialist Network<\/strong> (NSN) 2025<\/em>: Successful in establishing ‘Active Clubs’ around the country but beset by various legal difficulties, the EAM\/NSN has recently declared its intent<\/a> to form a federally-registered political party, ‘White Australia’. This is a definite improvement on the United Patriots Front and ‘Fortitude’<\/a>, but whether or not 1,500 neo-Nazis and White supremacists want to d0x themselves for the benefit of the Australian government remains to be seen. Along with Tom Sewell and Jacob Hersant, from about 2023, Joel ’14-year-old girls should be allowed to marry adult men with their father\u2019s consent’<\/a> Davis has emerged as another face and indefatigable propagandist on behalf of the EAM\/NSN, co-hosting a vodcast (The Joel and Blair Show) with failed fuehrer Blair Cottrell, and otherwise encouraging precocious Very Online male yoof to join him in going from bizarro to nazi geek.<\/p>\n Since its formation, various noises have been made about proscribing the NSN as a ‘terrorist’ organisation: an unlikely occurrence in the absence of any documented instances of serious violence on the part of its membership. Still, in response to numerous publicity stunts engaged in by the group — and the sudden discovery by the state in October 2023 of the importance of being anti-antisemitic — laws rendering Nazi salutes and symbols in public unlawful have been introduced on a federal and state level. Happily, like other neo-Nazis, the EAM\/NSN can easily avoid falling foul of these laws without ceasing to agitate and organise — though, as was the case in Adelaide earlier this year, it still risks being d0xxed<\/a>.<\/p>\n The NSN has also explored developing closer links with similar bodies overseas, including Patriotic Alternative<\/a> in the UK and the Nordic Resistance Movement<\/a> in Scandinavia, with Cottrell attending a PA event in October<\/a> last year and Davis the year prior. Still, possibly the most politically-consequential stunt the NSN has engaged in to date was when in March 2023 they joined<\/a> Lady Parker and Moira Deeming MP on the steps of the Victorian parliament to denounce trans rights. This intervention eventually resulted in a messy court battle between Deeming and then-Liberal party leader John Pesutto. Having narrowly ESCed being ejected from parliament, Pesutto and the few ‘moderates’ left in the party are engaged in an ongoing battle<\/a> over its future political direction.<\/p>\n NB. The EAM\/NSN emerged after the collapse of Tom Sewell’s previous political project, The Lads Society, and incorporated the remnants of Antipodean Resistance<\/a>. Further: ‘The leader of an Australian white nationalist group has made veiled threats of violence while also claiming he tried unsuccessfully to recruit the alleged Christchurch gunman Brenton Tarrant in 2017’ (Threats from white extremist group that ‘tried to recruit Tarrant’<\/a>, Patrick Begley, The Sydney Morning Herald, May 2, 2019); and: ‘The Australian shooter who killed 51 Muslim worshipers at a mosque in Christchurch last year was active in far-right groups in his home country but escaped the attention of authorities, despite allegedly being reported to Australian police for sending threatening messages’ (Christchurch shooter was active with Australian far-right groups online but escaped police attention<\/a>, Michael McGowan, The Guardian, December 2020). In which context, finally:<\/p>\n In 2019, a 28-year-old Australian terrorist live-streamed himself murdering 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch New Zealand, sending shockwaves around the world. It was the deadliest act of right-wing extremist violence committed by an Australian. As journalist Joey Watson<\/a> speaks with survivors and researchers, he begins to uncover a more complex story. What, or who, led the terrorist to violence? In Secrets We Keep: Lone Actor<\/a><\/em>, Joey sets out to retrace the terrorist’s trajectory in the years leading up to the attack.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n See also<\/em> : Knights Without Amour<\/a>, Jack Hynes, Arena, No.21, March 2025 \/\/\/ Families fighting to keep loved ones out of extremist groups struggle to find intervention programs<\/a>, Avani Dias, Elise Potaka, and Maddy King, Four Corners, February 17, 2025 \/\/\/ Dr. Jennifer Robinson, ‘A Network of National Socialists? The Physical Manifestation of Extreme Right Ideology in the Trans-Tasman 2000 \u2013 2022’ (ANU, October 2024).<\/p>\n 7 1\/2) *National Workers Alliance<\/strong> (NWA) 8) *The Noticer<\/strong> 9) One Nation Party<\/strong> (PHONy) 10) Proud Boys<\/strong> (Australia) 11) *The Racer<\/strong> 12) *Rebel News<\/strong> 13) The Unshackled<\/strong> (AKA ‘The Unhinged’) 13 1\/2) XYZ<\/strong>Adelaide Institute<\/strike> ‘It’s dead, Jim.’
\n\u2022 Australian Council of Nationalists<\/strike> was a failed attempt by the AFP to cobble together a broader political support structure.
\n\u2022 (The) Australian Vanguard<\/strike> was a very odd guy from QLD called Raymond Foster. He also sometimes called himself ‘White Wellbeing’. Seemingly retired, but possibly just resting.
\n\u2022 Blood & Honour<\/strike> & Southern Cross Hammerskins<\/strike> were boneheads: B&H a distro\/promo for nazi muzak, SCHS a gang. I’m unclear as to why the boys have seemingly dissolved in AUS, but assume it has something to do with the network’s repression elsewhere, age, and the existence of more attractive alternatives (see<\/em> : EAM\/NSN). Three years ago, former member ‘Brad Raven’ began publishing a YouTube channel<\/a> in which he talks about the gang and why he left it for The Buddha and tofu. See also<\/em> : Far-right group Blood and Honour has assets frozen by government<\/a>, Daniel Sandford, BBC, January 9, 2025 \/\/\/ Germany bans neo-Nazi group Hammerskins<\/a>, Michael Ertl, BBC, September 19, 2023.
\n\u2022 Expel the Parasite<\/strike> is a racist blog by South Australian Brett Light, one which has not been updated in three years. Seemingly retired, but possibly just resting.
\n\u2022 Golden Dawn Australia<\/strike> would presumably continue to enjoy some smol degree of support from Greek-Australians, but the repression of GD in Greece following its declaration as a criminal association<\/a> in 2020 probably doesn’t help much.
\n\u2022 The Lads Society<\/strike> dissolved into the EAM\/NSN.
\n\u2022 Love Australia Or Leave<\/strike> (2016–2022) was a micro-party and the bRanes-child of former SBS star Kim Vuga. Vuga has since embarked on a legal career.
\n\u2022 Nationalist Alternative<\/strike> was a fascist groupuscule with its origins in anti-mosque agitation in Melbourne\/Naarm in the late 2000s\/early 2010s. Members have since graduated to groups like the British Australian Community (BAC).
\n\u2022 New Australian Bulletin<\/strike> was an online shitsheet published by the AFP’s Nathan Sykes.
\n\u2022 Women for Aryan Unity<\/strike> was a tiny For Ladies Only<\/em> auxiliary to B&H\/SCHS.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2021 I wrote: ‘Still the central avenue for White nationalism in party-political form, the AFP remains firmly ensconced in the Tempe HQ belonging to its leader, Jim Saleam<\/a>‘. Dr. Saleam contested the seat of Lindsay at this year’s federal election, receiving 1,099 votes (1.1%) and coming last of the ten candidates. Otherwise: the party engages in propaganda, has yet again tried to establish a yoof wing (the imaginatively-titled ‘Eurekaist League’) and continues<\/a> to engage in ideological battle with the EAM\/NSN for the soul of White Australian nationalism; Dr Jim & Co. are also the possible beneficiaries of the estate of deceased British Israelite Leon Gregor (–2017), though this is apparently the subject of legal dispute.<\/p>\n
\nA new entry, the AJA are unhinged Zionists, whose, ah, interesting<\/a> publicity<\/a> stunts<\/a> were once considered c00ked but whose intransigent nationalism and support for Israeli state action in Palestine post-October 7 has considerably narrowed their distance from the political mainstream. (Oh, they’re also a hit with the Communist League<\/a>.)<\/p>\n
\nIn 2025, the Adelaide-BASED ALOR resembles what it did in 2021: ‘… the cranky and somewhat daggy aunt and uncle of the Australian far right. \u201cGod, Queen & Country!\u201d is its slogan — and it’s very dubious about the role of (((You Know Who))) in world affairs — but it otherwise remains within the orbit of (more) mainstream reactionary politics, with a strong emphasis on the doctrine of ‘Social Credit’<\/a>.’ See also<\/em> : The communist empty signifier: the Australian League of Rights and the Voice to Parliament referendum<\/a>, Brett Nicholls, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, Vol.38, No.6 (2024).<\/p>\n
\nThe ANA, under the wise leadership of esoterik Presbyterian Matthew Grant, has proven to be a stayer. As I wrote last time: ‘Like AFP and as its name suggests, ANA recycles<\/a> Australian labourism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, with a strong emphasis on its white nationalist dimensions’. The association is small but active, and resembles a YMCA for irritable (white) Australian nationalists. And while it once formed part of the defunct ACON, it appears that some political distance has since formed between it and the more grandfatherly AFP.<\/p>\n
\nAnother crankypants organisation whose heyday was back in the early 1900s. TLDR : \u2018The people of the British Isles are \u201cgenetically, racially, and linguistically the direct descendants\u201d of the Ten Lost Tribes of ancient Israel.\u2019 The BIWF, with chapters in Queensland and Victoria, is holding a conference in October this year. Among those announced as speakers at the gathering is Nick Patterson. Paterson gained some notoriety for his participation in anti-lockdown protests in Melbourne in 2020-2021.<\/p>\n
\nLook, he’s (still?) got a blog! 2021: ‘According to the Southern Poverty Law Centre, CI is \u2018a unique antisemitic and racist theology that rose to a position of commanding influence on the racist right in the 1980s\u2019. According to Charlotte Mears<\/a>, ‘… the Kingdom of Heaven ministry, a branch of the Christian Identity movement … bases their views on Eve as seen through the \u2018Seed Theory\u2019, a racist doctrine that claims only white humanity was created by the union of Adam and Eve.\u2019 (See<\/em> : ‘The Far Right and Women\u2019s History’ in Far-Right Revisionism and the End of History<\/em>, Louie Dean Valencia-Garc\u00eda<\/a> (editor), Routledge, 2020.) Note that this particular seed is unrelated to the recent crop of Starseeds<\/a>, but is about as broeken.’<\/p>\n
\nIn 2025, Ken Cratchley is still kicking and tweeting<\/a>, but I’m unsure if Matthew Holt continues<\/a> to ‘identify with the Christian Separatist Church which advocates that \u201cthe white race is superior to other races\u201d and [whose] members hold \u201copen hatred towards Judaism\u201d’.<\/p>\nCitizens Electoral Council<\/strike> Australian Citizens Party<\/strong>
\nThe CEC was<\/em> the name given to the local branch of the La Rouche kvlt<\/a>, but it’s since changed its name to the \u2018Australian Citizens Party\u2019 (ACP). Having contested federal elections since 1990, the party did so again in 2025, with unimpressive if predictable results.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2025, the situation for C18 remains the same as it was in 2021: ‘More a label than a formal grouping, C18 is (still) responsible for distroing shitty quality B&W stickers around Melbourne town, as it has for umpteen years now. Occasionally, the racist nature of the stickers attracts media attention.’ Championed by bonehead Patrick O’Sullivan and, for a period, another bonehead called Dan Newman, both seem to have gravitated towards the NSN in the years since.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2025, Cailen Cambeul and a couple of his mates continue to promote Ben Klassen’s kooky religious kvlt<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n2021<\/em>: ‘Memorably described by the AFP as being comprised of gangly teens whose entire knowledge of the world comes from social media. Except for the one book they\u2019ve almost all read more than halfway through, Mein Kampf<\/em>, in August 2021 the NSN starred in an expos\u00e9<\/a> by 9Fairfax (see also<\/em> : \u201cThe NSN is dead! Long live the NSN!\u201d<\/a>, September 9, 2021). As noted previously, the NSN formed in late 2019\/early 2020 after some internal debate over whether to go \u2018full nazi\u2019 or stick to pretending to being civil rights advocates for White dudes (see<\/em> : \u2018European Australian Movement\u2019) and thereby maintain some relationship with Ordinary Mums & Dads\/The Quiet Australians of tabloid\/Tory myth.’<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThe NWA is a project of former Lad Matt Trihey. Born in the wake of anti-lockdown protest in Melbourne\/Naarm, Mr Trihey’s NWA is nothing if not determined, producing propaganda, leading weekly processions thru the CBD and organising ill-fated meetings at venues (the Polish Club and a now-closed Urban St) in the south-eastern suburbs. The grouplet, with an office in Cheltenham, does not explicitly endorse neo-Nazism (instead promoting a version of White nationalism) but, along with various other bizarr0s, the NSN are welcome at and do attend NWA meetings and rallies (Blair Cottrell and Jim Roberts are pictured above with Trihey celebrating January 26 outside Rod Laver Arena). Weirdly, at one of these events, bad Neighbour Damien Richardson allegedly performed a Nazi salute; an action that’s currently the subject of a courtroom battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nLaunched in early 2024, The Noticer is a new, nazi-friendly website that — outside of the NSN itself — has assumed the chief role of promoting the NSN’s antics, as well as feeding the racial anxieties of hangry Boomerwaffen on Facebook by denouncing the nefarious influence of (((You Know Who))) on Australian society. Some have claimed that the right-wing political maverick John Macgowan<\/a> is the power-behind-the-throne at the site, but I dunno. In any case, Macgowan<\/a> ran for Clark at the recent Tasmanian state election but, with just 279 votes, failed to get bumped. See<\/em> : How election candidates are boosting The Noticer, a news site promoting neo-Nazi ideologies<\/a>, Kevin Nguyen and Michael Workman, ABC, April 14, 2025 (‘The articles of David Hiscox, who continues to publish for the anti-Semitic website XYZ, and American white supremacist Jared Taylor also appear on The Noticer’.).<\/p>\n
\nSee<\/em> : Pauline Hanson. In 2025, manic space-pixie Malcolm Roberts was re-elected as a PHONy Senator for QLD, and was joined by two others: Warwick Stacey (NSW) and Tyron Whitten (WA). Otherwise, PHONy remains ‘a regular feature on tabloid media’, continues to play ‘a very important role in the Australian Senate, and is one of the key links in the chain of anti-environmental and reactionary politics in STRAYA’. And yeah, it’s worth remembering that ‘a PHONy candidate in WA was exposed<\/a> as a recruit to the neo-Nazi terrorist organisation ‘The Base”.<\/p>\n
\nI was almost going to scratch the Proud Boys — ‘The bastard children of Canuckistanian dingbat Gavin McInnes’ — but decided against it, largely on account of Daddy Trump’s RETVRN to power in the United States and subsequent pardoning of the PBs’ lvl boss Enrique Tarrio & Co.<\/a> for various insurrectionary crimes committed on January 6, 2021; as their Daddy instructed them in September 2020, “stand back and stand by”. Probably the most infamous (former) Proud Boy<\/a> in Australia is Jarrad Searby. After a brief dalliance<\/a> with the NSN (along with an abortive career as a rapper), Mr Searby eventually joined The Finks OMC, in which capacity he got into a little trouble with The Law (see<\/em> : Border Finks bikie boss jailed for blackmailing and standing over two victims, The Border Mail, May 28, 2024).<\/p>\n
\nThe Racer is a podcast, one of a number promoting racist and fascist propaganda. In 2021 I wrote: ‘Curiously, while The Dingoes<\/a> starred George Christensen and Mark Latham, The Racers boasted an interview with The Syrian Girl<\/a> AKA Maram Susli<\/a>, ‘the Damascus regime\u2019s biggest fangirl on social media\u2014at least in English language social media”; Susli has been very unhappy since the Assad regime<\/a> imploded last year.<\/p>\n
\nEzra Levant’s Canadian-BASED right-wing propaganda network has an Australian franchise, with its chief propagandist being convicted spousal abuser<\/a> and serial pest Avi Yemini. Relentless, repentless, and often found in the company of Daniel ‘Tactical Force Combatives’ Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2025, Timmeh! ‘Right Wing Death Squads’ Wilms continues to create content, albeit to a decreasing audience. He’s joined in this endeavour by Richard Wolstencroft. It remains the case that, as in 2021, Timmeh! ‘seemingly never met a fascist, reactionary or conspiracist kook he hasn’t wanted to talk to’.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2021 I wrote: ‘XYZ the blog was established several years ago as a political outlet for a handful of cranky local Tories AKA \u2018Classical Liberals\u2019. By 2020 it had developed into an antisemitic and White supremacist propaganda organ.’ Since then, the site has been up and down<\/a> (and largely eclipsed by The Noticer), but in 2025 sometime NSN member David Hiscox<\/a> remains the editor, and a handful of other cranks, including NSN member Stephen Wells, contribute to the site.<\/p>\nSee also<\/em> : The White Rose Society<\/a>: A collective of anti-fascist researchers based in so-called Australia, established in 2018.<\/h3>\n