Neo-Nazis Are Launching the White Australia Party to Run in the Next Federal Election

White Australia NSW held a meeting in a hall in Greater Sydney on Wednesday, 22 October 2025, and as the photos of speakers involved at the event reveal, this is the political party the National Socialist Network, or the NSN, has launched as a contender for federal elections, and participants at the event shared white supremacist ideals and a 10-hour-long smoked brisket of pulled pork and chicken.

More than 100 participants were at the meeting, with organisers bragging that the numbers were greater than recent membership drive events held by far-right minor party figures One Nation’s Pauline Hanson and People First’s Gerard Rennick. And the fact that this proliferation of far-right minor parties are pulling numbers at multiple events is a sign that white nationalism is growing.

The Age revealed in April that NSN leader Thomas Sewell and his black-clad boys were forming a political party. In order to achieve this goal, the organisation needs to have 1,500 verified members to apply to the Australian Electoral Commission to run federally. A message in the White Australia Telegram feed from Thursday this week reveals that the party is close to achieving this goal.

The currently remanded Sewell made the remarks about forming a party, after he’d been arrested over a 26 January Nazi rally on Karuna land in Adelaide. The idea that neo-Nazis were going to run in elections appeared ludicrous, but half a year later and the nation has recently experienced three mass antiimmigration rallies, all of which featured white nationalists and the first included the NSN.

And while there exists an inclination to simply mock the National Socialist Network and its members, as they consider running in elections as legitimate contenders under the banner of White Australia, to simply deride the most extreme members of a broader movement taking place amongst disaffected Anglo Celtic Australians, is to ignore the serious danger this poses.

The great white Australian fallacy

The White Australia Party website contains a documentary called the Summer Nationals 2025, which features highlights of NSN triumphs from last summer, including scenes of the neo-Nazis preparing for their 26 January public demonstration in Adelaide, which included the boys taking a 10 kilometre run and then holding a mixed martial arts tournament.

The documentary goes on to feature prominent members of the National Socialist Network discussing the successful staging of their “Australia Day rally” in Adelaide on 26 January 2025, which was said to have received millions of views online and produced the calculated outcome of deflecting attention from prominent Invasion Day protests on the same day.

At the time of writing it was exactly 7 hours 50 minutes and 14 seconds prior to the White Australia Party’s second documentary Winter Nationals 2025 going live on the White Australia website.

“What is our ideology about?” NSN member Hagen Palme asked rhetorically, as he addressed the recent 22 October Sydney meeting. “The media, and the common man and woman, will say we are people filled with hate. National socialism and our movement is not an ideology of hate. It is an ideology of love. It is love for one’s own people, of our culture, our history.”

The young white man further explained that “Australia was founded as a white-only nation, and this is what we are fighting to retain”. He then set out the “severity” of the situation the nation finds itself in at present, as in 1960, white Australians made up 90 percent of the population, while in 2025, it is “around 60 percent”.

“We are here because we believe in the right for white Australians to live in a homeland and to be free from foreign influence to pursue our destiny in peace and safety,” Palme continued. “We do not hate other races, but we must realise the truth – multiculturalism is a heinous lie.” The young man further set out that this policy is turning all nations into a “hodgepodge of brown sludge”.

The fallacy of white Australia

The clear issue with Palme’s comments and the entire White Australia Party’s doctrine is that it fails to recognise that this continent is not the traditional homeland of Anglo Celtic peoples. The Nazis erase the First Peoples of the continent in their rhetoric, but their actions over the last year have shown that they not only oppose nonwhite immigrants, but they stand against sovereign peoples.

Following the 1788 British invasion and subsequent establishment of various colonies on this continent, these were federated in 1901 to form Australia. The first three Acts of parliament – the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (Cth), the Pacific Island Labourers Act 1901 (Cth) and the Post and Telegraph Act 1901 (Cth) – served to establish what became known as the White Australia Policy.

The idea was to ensure that the population of the country remained predominately of Anglo Celtic origin, in much the same way that Israel seeks to be purely Jewish. Migrants that wanted to enter the country had to undergo various assessments, including a 50 word dictation test that could be given in any language. The last vestiges of the policy continued until the 1970s Whitlam era.

To reinforce white Australian identity, Aboriginal people were written out of the history books from federation onwards. This is known as the Great Australian Silence. This purposeful distortion of local history was broken by the publication of a series of 1968 lectures given by anthropologist W E Stanner called After the Dreaming and historian Henry Reynolds’ 1970 work Why Weren’t We Told?

As Palme’s speech reveals, the Nazis have really missed the bus when it comes to reestablishing these ideals. The majority living here now consider the White Australia Policy a product of past racial ignorance. A diverse multicultural population now lives on the continent. And much of the recent outpouring of white nationalism has its origins in these misguided past government policies.

This is a growing movement

Since 31 August 2025, three white Australian nationalist/antiimmigration demonstrations have taken place nationwide. The first event prominently involved National Socialist Network members amongst the ranks of majority white Southern Cross flag-draped demonstrators. Two of these events have been under the banner of March for Australia.

A fourth Put Australia First rally is now taking place again nationwide on 30 November, and it is expected the neo-Nazis may again participate, as they did during initial March for Australia.

ASIO director Mike Burgess, during his 2020 annual threat assessment, commenced warning about the “extreme right wing threat… growing” in this country. This continued at a pace during the COVID pandemic, which saw white nationalists network online nationwide and globally.

The National Socialist Network formed in early 2020, out of disparate white nationalist groups, like Reclaim Australia and the United Patriots Front, which were established circa 2015. The NSN differs from the groups that went before it, as it is openly promotes itself as a Nazi organisation, and it acts as an umbrella network that links up smaller active clubs of white neo-Nazis continentwide.

The neo-Nazis first mobilised on city streets in Naarm-Melbourne in March 2023 before Victorian parliament. The group has been staging protests as open adherents of Nazism ever since. The white nationalists making up the broader antiimmigration movement emerged out of the Freedom movement of the COVID-19 era, and they’ve shifted their focus from vaccines to migrants.

The 31 August 2025 March for Australia involved the thuggish violence of neo-Nazis in Naarm-Melbourne, and the mobilisation on Gadigal land involved aggressive behaviour. Nonwhite migrants were openly derided at these events, and calls were made to “send them back”. Led by Sewell, the NSN in Melbourne also attacked First People’s sacred site Camp Sovereignty in a racism-fuelled assault.

The emergence of a serious white Australian nationalist force is not occurring in isolation, however. The second coming of the Trump administration involves open white supremacist posturing from the White House, and its first time in office provided fertile ground for white nationalists to rise up, while Unite the Kingdom white nationalist rallies and riots have been ongoing in the UK this year.

Tech billionaire and Trump administration insider Elon Musk made a televised appearance at the largest ever white nationalist rally to take place in England on 13 September this year, and in speaking to the movement’s leader Tommy Robinson, he suggested that the white British public rise up and overthrow its government in order to stop mass immigration.

Robinson has been invited to take part in the 30 November Put Australia First rally in Naarm. And organisers are raising the fact that the common wisdom is that 3.5 percent of a nation’s population is needed to rise up in protest in order to effect change, and, as they’re expecting 5 percent of the country to mobilise on 30 November 2025, they consider major immigration reform is on its way.