Australian Nazis Rally in Aid of White Fallacy and Attempt to Erase Truth-Telling

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National Socialist Network (NSN) leader Thomas Sewell was called upon to give the final speech at the March for Australia in Naarm-Melbourne, which spoke volumes in respect of the white Australian Freedom movement’s easy capitulation to the racist white supremacist agenda of the neo-Nazis, and it too conveyed the lack of any real intellectual rigour available to swansong the hate fest.

The scenes on Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung Country in Greater Melbourne were repeated in cities continentwide, white Australian ‘freedom fighters’ cloaked in Southern Cross flags marched down city streets, carrying banners adorned with various slogans expressing ‘antiimmigration’, as they prominently decried recent mass mobilisations for Palestine, and anyone with the skerrick of a tan.

Also dubbed “Australia First” rallies, the March for Australia events of Sunday 31 August 2025 were in direct response to the thousands of pro-Palestinians who gathered on Gadigal land on 3 August to march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, to call for an end to Israel’s genocide upon the Palestinians of Gaza. Although local freedom fighters have too been heavily influenced by Donald Trump’s MAGA.

A certain portion of white Australian suburbanites have always been ready to rally in aid of whiteness at the drop of a hat, ever since the real Nazis reared their ugly heads in 1930s Germany, but these white Australian patriots, who began attempting to ‘reclaim Australia’ a decade ago, have now shifted into a full fascist force.

The scenes of Sewell and the boys, as well as the other white Australian sycophants, marching and brawling on the streets to this degree is unprecedented. However, the fact the NSN ended the day with a violent and criminal act upon Camp Sovereignty, “a sacred place maintained by First Peoples” on Boonwurrung land, revealed base levels of ignorance and depravity in operation.

Australia for the white man – yeah, right

On being interviewed on the ground, “the group’s leader Thomas Sewell” told a Channel Ten reporter that the black-clad neo-Nazis and the Southern Cross-wrapped freedom fighters were gathered on Melbourne streets to “stop immigration”.

On being asked to clarify whether he wanted to stop it completely, the moustachioed Sewell added, “Stopping immigration – people say five years, some people say 20 years, let’s stop immigration so we can have a nation. We don’t have a nation at the moment, we have a halfway house to the world,” said Sewell, in what was likely the NSN’s first televised policy announcement.

Mid-last decade, white nationalist groups, like Reclaim Australia and United Patriots Front, started mobilising in aid of ‘Aussie pride’ and against Muslim migrants. And these white supremacists have to repeatedly be reminded that for 60,000 years prior to the violent invasion of this continent, there were only Blak people here, so the idea of reclaiming is a fallacy, but then again, fascists are illogical.

The NSN didn’t immediately descend onto the streets, however. The neo-Nazis first rallied down the bush in the Grampians in regional Victoria on 26 January 2021. The boys didn’t begin publicly rallying until March 2023, when they lined up before Parliament House, Melbourne in support of UK antitransgender activist Kelly Jane Keen. Then, two months later, they rallied at parliament again.

Reports regarding the first public marches and the policing of them featured Victoria police notably blocking leftwing counterprotesters from approaching the far-right actors by forming a ‘thin blue line’ with their bodies to protect the neo-Nazis, which led to the usual speculation and discussion around how Australian police forces appear to be sympathetic to right-wing agitators, especially Nazis.

Prior to Sunday’s meet and ever since the 2023 Melbourne parliament demonstrations, the neo-Nazis have ever-increasingly been appearing on Australian streets right across the eastern seaboard and even on Karuna land in Adelaide.

Despite the March for Australia having apparently been organised in early August by anonymous freedom fighters, it was later claimed by the NSN. This saw the social media pages spruiking the event counter the claims of the neo-Nazis, outlining that organisers were just regular white Australians concerned about immigration, the cost of living and the prices of houses in Frankston.

“Everyone is allowed to have a homeland, except us”

As part of the panel debate regarding the March for Australia on 18 August 2025 Sunday Showdown, Sky News presenter Evelyn Rae explained that there was “nothing wrong with having a national identity”, and that Australia is having an “identity crisis”, as in the past those who lived here knew what it was to be and act like an Australian and that included plenty of assimilated migrants.

Rae continued that the issue for her is that a person can’t “point out certain facts and certain truths without being called a racist”, and these include that “everyone is allowed to have a homeland, except for us”, which is a statement that echoes the prominent concerns of people from other settler colonial nations elsewhere on the planet at present.

“There is nothing wrong with pointing out that we are taking in migrants at ungodly levels from countries, unfortunately, that are finding it very hard to assimilate to our Australian identity and our Australian culture, and it is not racist for pointing that out because, we will lose our home, we will lose our people, we will lose our culture and that sadly is what is happening.”

These are all points that One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson was making when she held a federal lower house seat in the mid-1990s. Hanson rode in on a wave of antimigrant fears about white Australia being swamped by Asian migration. 

Ideas like these being recycled and reapplied now appear to be similar to the way that Zionists have been recycling and reapplying Israel’s right to self-defence in perpetrating the Gaza genocide, which was the line it was spruiking to justify its 1967 war. 

Attacks on truth-telling

White Australians hearkening back to the golden era of white Australia brings with it some serious dissociation considering the continent is the home of hundreds of First Nations that the British attempted to violently usurp. 

Indeed, individuals trying to reclaim something that was never theirs to begin with, or to make true something that didn’t exist in the first place, can and often does lead to violence.

These sorts of inconsistencies in ideological outlook might have been playing subconsciously on the minds of the NSN, as these white men, after spending an entire day rallying in the Melbourne CBD due to Australia, ‘a white man’s country’, being overrun by migrants, apparently then had to go pay a visit to Camp Sovereignty in an attempt to erase the ultimate truth of the matter.

Footage captured of the incident shows NSN members making their way to the camp, running up an embankment and then charging the group of mainly First Nations women, who were attending the site, and the boys actually laid into these women and destroyed the setup, in scenes reminiscent of frontier war times, when white men ransacked the camps of First Peoples with impunity.

So, on Sunday, Sewell and the boys were captured displaying the same ideological outlook as the Netanyahu government when it attempts to exterminate the Palestinians of Gaza to suit its map of Greater Israel, as the NSN needs to erase Camp Sovereignty because it reveals that at its heart Australia is a settler colonial project just like Israel.

Main image: Stills taken from footage captured by Instagram account stoparmingisrael_aus

Paul Gregoire

Paul Gregoire is a Sydney-based journalist and writer. He's the winner of the 2021 NSW Council for Civil Liberties Award For Excellence In Civil Liberties Journalism. Prior to Sydney Criminal Lawyers®, Paul wrote for VICE and was the news editor at Sydney’s City Hub.

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