Inky Australian
We publish with permission this article by nationalist writer, Inky Australian. You may view other items by going to his substack. It was considered by our editors that this summation of the history of the neo-nazis would be helpful to young people (in particular) who may come across new incarnations of this toxic phenomenon.
The National Socialist Network is gone but it will live on in infamy. To memorialise them, we present to readers the ‘Greatest Hits’ of the National Socialist Network, a compilation of the very best statements, actions, incitements, crimes, terrorist links and other general hyper-violent stupidity that made up the six-year operation of Australia’s most notorious Hitlerist organisation. But first, as readers of Inky Australian may have come to expect, we give you a bit of history.
Part 1: A Troubled Inheritance – the NSN Origin Story
The National Socialist Network (hereafter the NSN) was formed in the year 2020 as a merger of sorts of two previous groupings, the Lads Society and Antipodean Resistance. The NSN ‘grouping’ operated co-projects the European Australian Movement (EAM) and later White Australia. Officially the NSN functioned as the activist outfit, lead by Jacob Hersant, and restricted participation to men. It is the group most members of the general public are familiar with, the one using black-bloc uniforms during all those street protests. The EAM, lead by former infantryman Thomas Sewell, was the more private and seemingly moderate umbrella group which did allow women to join (but not to been seen or be heard). White Australia came in 2025, set up solely to recruit supporters for a mooted political party to have been called the ‘White Australia Party’. Long since banned off platforms such as Facebook and YouTube, leading members of the NSN operated primarily on Telegram and X, using their swarm of online followers to raid comments sections, ‘juice’ comments supporting the NSN, and generally abuse all other Australians who disagreed with the nature of their political project.
Of the NSN’s precursors, the Lads Society has a tortured history, coming into existence at the tail-end of the United Patriots Front (UPF) era, an earlier Zionist-patriot political grouping founded by Blair Cottrell, Niel Erikson and Chris Shortis. Thomas Sewell was a marginal figure with a full head of hair acting as lieutenant to Cottrell and made his first appearance in April 2015 at one of the UPF’s anti-Islam ‘Reclaim Australia’ rallies in Melbourne. The Lads Society was founded by Sewell and Andrew Buckle (an old friend from Balwyn and president of a firearms association) in 2017 after the UPF went balls up when it was booted off Facebook. Conceived of as a men’s society focusing on physical fitness and community development, Sewell, at the time still working with at-risk teenagers, was busy making an ideological break from his mentor Cottrell (a misunderstood conservative) and eventually came to the realisation that “there is no political solution” (until 2025, when he realised there was one). The ‘lads’ at the Sydney branch were implicated in the branch stacking of the NSW Young Nationals in 2018 and the group was the focus of much scrutiny due to Sewell’s online correspondences with, and attempted recruitment of, the Zionist terrorist Brenton Tarrant prior to him carrying out the Christchurch massacre.
“We want a peaceful alternative, we want to be treated with respect, we want to be left alone. If we are not given that opportunity, well, time will tell. I’m not going to give you any explicit threat but it’s pretty f–king obvious what’s going to happen.” – Tom Sewell, quoted by a journalist in 2019
The other half of the origin story – Antipodean Resistance (AR) – was established in 2016. The most prominent member to emerge from this grouping is Jacob Hersant. AR was primarily known for its graffiti and stickering campaigns across the eastern states, the stickers being a hodgepodge of esoteric Nazi iconography and other incitements. The group grew out of the Iron March forum, an internet message board which was shuttered in November 2017 due to pressure from the Russian government, and AR ended up organising on Tumblr of all places. Iron March was founded in 2011 by a Russian-Uzbek with a fanatical hatred of Vladimir Putin and was impregnated with all the worst accelerationist and terrorist ideas the internet had to offer. Forum users were obsessed with the book Siege by James Mason and the FBI-controlled satanist ideology the Order of Nine Angles (O9A) also found fertile soil to grow in.
Many Iron March users, oftentimes international friends of AR, later went on to commit murders or were charged with planning all sorts of violent crimes through fed-infested groups like The Base and Atomwaffen Division. The forum was a breeder pool for western neo-Nazis who joined the Azov Battalion in Ukraine, a combat unit funded by Jewish billionaire Igor Kolomoisky. AR were in close contact with the UK’s proscribed terrorist group National Action, which also formed on Iron March (NA briefly re-formed under the title ‘National Socialist Network’ in 2017, this being obviously where Hersant got the name from). Although there are rumours that leading members of AR joined the Australian cell of The Base (it was confirmed that Lads Society Queensland leader Grant Fuller attempted to join, as did an old associate of Joel Davis from West Australia), the network fell apart in its early stages when it was revealed by The Guardian that leader Rinaldo Nazzaro was a former military intelligence contractor and AR were admittedly implicated in fewer violent incidents than their international comrades, other than the time they got into a slap fight at a KFC in Colac.
There were already significant membership crossovers between the Lads Society and Antipodean Resistance (including teaming up to provide security detail for Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern on their 2018 Australian tour) when Hersant and Sewell came together in 2020 as their respective political projects were lagging. What was born during the throes of the first Covid lockdown year was a duumvirate that combined Hersant’s fascination for stickering and street activism (the NSN) with Sewell’s preference for ‘community building’ and physical training (the EAM). The core of the NSN/EAM has always existed in the city of Melbourne where Sewell and Hersant grew up, both from relatively genteel backgrounds. This Melbourne-centric status lessened over the past year as the group developed strong branches in New South Wales and Queensland but it is notable that as recently as February 2024, Joel Davis had to temporarily relocate from Sydney to Melbourne in order to ‘get in’ with the group.
The NSN leaders in happier days, posing for a pic with Alt-right ‘babe’ Lauren Southern
Eye-dee-ology? What does that word mean?
To speak of the NSN/EAM’s ideology is pointless. They didn’t really have one; at best a vague Weltanschauung distilled to followers through podcasts and the janky videos Sewell recorded in the front seat of his car. Nobody in the group ever produced a book or a pamphlet; There were no policy statements issued to the public on telegram; None though it necessary for a ‘national socialist’ organisation to draw up something like, say, a 25-Point Program, which is a surprise seeing as how keen they were about Mein Kampf. To be honest we doubt many of them did much reading; it was all about ‘doing’ and getting their stunts onto the nightly news rather then being bogged down with silly things like ‘ideas’. When asked for a reading list on a recent podcast, Sewell could recommend little other than the original Fuehrer’s work, a book by George Lincoln Rockwell, and the banned ‘starter pack’ reading lists of Iron March. If they had ever actually written up something that honestly represented their views and goals, it would probably have been a pastiche of Siege and Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto. By the latter end of their attempt to go moderate with the ‘White Australia’ organisation, efforts were made to solidify some principles for the upcoming party (mate-ship, loyalty and the like), but again, this never made its way into written format.
Aside from all the comments about “heightening the contradictions” and the upcoming ‘race war’, Hitler-cultism was the most obvious form of political expression to be found at the NSN: celebrating Hitler’s birthday every year, hanging portraits of the Fuehrer in their Rowville digs, so on and so forth. Hitler salutes and Third Reich flags/emblems were naturally all the rage amongst the NSN until the state and federal governments passed laws in response to the NSN’s behaviour, outlawing the public display of Nazi symbols and gestures. Sewell once even claimed to have received a vision of the Fuehrer when he was electrocuted at work. Paganism formed a religious aspect of the group, with Sewell often taking to making mystical statements about Wotan/Odin. Early NSN/EAM initiation rituals took place at the grave of Alexander Rud Mills near the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne. Mills, a populariser of Germanic Neopaganism who died in 1964, was the only Australian far-right figure to meet the future Chancellor in person at the end of 1932 (Hitler, at the time strongly distancing himself from Ludendorff and the Völkisch movement, politely told Mills to bugger off with his Odinism).
Given its origins on Iron March, the whiff of O9A has always lingered around the NSN. Allegations of engagement with this putrid, violence-glorifying satanist ideology have been presented against former and indeed even current members, in particular the crew originally brought in by Hersant. Some NSN fanboys have made the case, postmortem, that the NSN/EAM has breathed life into Australia’s ‘pro-white’ politics and was a de-radicalizing project that pulled many a young autistic man away from being goaded by some anonymous figure in a Telegram chatroom into committing a terror attack. We disagree in the strongest terms possible. Nationalists see the NSN as a radicalizing project that grafted itself over organic sentiment against demographic replacement and was from its inception filled to the brim with rhetoric of violent accelerationism.
All the foul nonsense of James Mason, O9A satanism and outright terrorism that was incubated on 4/8chan and the forum Iron March – and then made its way over to Telegram – was present inside the group from the very beginning. Hersant and other former AR members came directly out of this milieu and Sewell was always very equivocal about accelerationist texts, never making any serious attempts to repudiate them. There were plenty of taunts as well: before they all took to wearing Helly Hansen jackets, the NSN on occasion posted of pictures of themselves wearing clothing with the logos of Combat 18 and The Base visible. We conclude that the NSN introduced far more young Australians to these toxic ideas than ever before.
Celebrating Hitlers Birthday
The Boy from New Zealand Balwyn
If any man defined the NSN, it was Thomas Sewell. Sewell ‘led from the front’ (read, lead with his fists) as he was wont to boast and was a charismatic figure with a strong appeal to young impressionable boys willing to project their childish political fantasies onto him. The suburb of Sewell’s childhood – affluent Balywn in inner east Melbourne – has been hit hard by Asianisation. This is visible in the hordes of McMansions in the ugly faux-French style so beloved of the Chinese that have sprouted in the area. The local high school Sewell attended has a large Asian contingent and Sewell was once in business with two Asian men on an unknown project. Without a doubt Sewell is intimately aware of the demographic changes that have occurred in his local stomping ground, but at some point along the line in his early political development, things went awry and he turned towards the UPF and the counter-jihad movement, agitating against Muslims of all things instead of against the people that actually have swarmed his suburban homeland and the country as a whole.
The ‘Active Club’ model, with its motto Tribe and Train, was an obvious influence on Sewell and the NSN/EAM, which resulted in the group professionalizing over the course of 2022 and 2023. The Active Club movement was founded by American Rob Rundo, formerly of the ‘Rise Above Movement’ (RAM). Rundo was inspired by his travels around Europe, visiting the football Ultras and Identitarians, as well as his meet-ups with Denis ‘White Rex’ Kapustin. Rundo and Kapustin collaborated on a popular podcast which laid out the basics of how to form and structure an Active Club, the NSN leadership being keen listeners. Given Sewell and Hersant’s legal convictions and the ASIO monitoring since before 2020, they were never able to travel overseas to meet either Rundo or Kapustin in person, but there was evidently close online communication between them. Hersant was able to put local Proud Boy leader Jarrad ‘Jaz’ Searby into contact with Kapustin, the former now in jail on charges of blackmail, drug dealing and burglary. As for ideology, there’s no nationalist politics to be found in Active Clubs; it’s just a loose fraternity of MMA ‘fight clubs’ with a focus on gym culture and hypermasculinity.
Part 2: Active Clubbing
Opening Shots
Group hiking trips form an important part of the ‘Active Club’ model. Other than the obvious team-building exercise, such outings are occasions for propaganda-production; the social media outputs of Active Clubs are thereafter always filled with images taken on these hikes, a potent tool for recruitment of young, lonely men looking for comrades. The Australian version is no different. An inaugural hiking event took place over Australia Day weekend in January 2021 with a trip to the Grampians National Park, a sandstone mountain rage approximately 3 hours drive west of Melbourne. Dressed in balaclavas, the group of around 30 NSN members alarmed the locals at the camping grounds with loud chants of “Heil Hitler” and a cross burning. The stunt achieved the desired effect of drawing significant media attention to the NSN (the tactic repeated continuously thereafter) and essentially acted as their recruiting announcement. At this stage, the first NSN/EAM stickers began to appear across Melbourne.
Biff with a security guard
Incensed by some negative reporting from the television program A Current Affair in March 2021, Sewell and a cameraman (Hersant) made the trek to the Channel 9 TV headquarters on Bourke Street in the Melbourne CBD in order to ‘confront’ ACA and the network bigwigs, Michael Moore-style. Before they could reach the Channel 9 inner sanctum, Sewell was stopped in his tracks at the reception lobby by an African security guard. Challenger approaching! A good Aryan warrior cannot permit such a challenge from a mere subhuman to go uncontested. Thomas the Swole Engine bulged up his muscles and made the logical decision to engage the security guard in a rough and tumble.
Footage of the incident clearly shows the security guard ignoring Sewell as he attempted to escort Hersant and his camera off-premises, that is until Sewell intervened from the guard’s right flank. Sewell launched a string of jabs at his head until the guard fell to ground, continuing the assault until other members of the public got involved and pulled Sewell off [sic]. Total Aryan Victory. As a first time offender, Sewell received no jail time for this unprovoked attack, walking away with 150 hours of community work and convictions for affray and recklessly causing injury.
Operation Ashke-Nazi Strange
Rape is a touchy topic for the NSN (no pun intended). Puerile rape comments have been a constant companion for leading members of the group and other connected personalities. Blair Cottrell, not a member of the NSN/EAM but still operating within their ‘community’, courted outrage back in 2018 for Facebook and Twitter posts he made after an appearance on Sky News Australia. Cottrell’s friendly studio interview on The Adam Giles Show ignited a media storm for ‘platforming a Nazi’ and ended with Sky News being removed from digital broadcasting on Melbourne’s city loop train station platforms. Cottrell then took to social media to comment on the outrage, adding even more fuel to the fire:
“Anyone would think I went on the air and spat in the face of the presenter then raped the entire staff on my way out,”
“I might as well have raped @ljayes on the air, not only would she have been happier with that but the reaction would’ve been the same.”
An April Fool’s Day prank (we use the word ‘prank’ is the loosest terms possible) in 2021 brought the subject of sexual assault to light during the very early days of the NSN’s activities. Fresh off the back of the Channel 9 raid, the NSN conceived of a tongue-in-cheek operation posted on Gab called ‘Operation Ashkenazi Strange’:
This coming weekend, we want every honourable White man, National Socialist, klansman, skinhead, racist, out on the town for Operation Ashkenazi Strange.
The operation is quite simple:
1. Go out clubbing in Jew area
2. Seduce sexy Jewesses
3. Breed out the Jewish race with Alpha Aryan Australian power
Get to it gentlemen! Let’s go! Hail Hitler!
Operation Ashkenazi Strange
Jewish groups of course failed to see the side-splitting humour and the NSN again got their desired media coverage. At some point in 2022 (the exact date cannot be deduced anymore for reasons mentioned below) Sewell temporarily became persona non grata on Mark Collett’s (leader of UK-based Patriotic Alternative) internet show Patriotic Weekly Review. During the interview, Sewell argued that there should be a ‘retributive rape’ inflicted on everyone in the government who covers up for or inadequately punishes the perpetrators of non-White rape gangs. Collett was forced to scrub the show from the archives and Sewell did not appear on PA streams for around two years. Most recently in November 2025, Joel Davis (also on record as supporting child marriage for 14 year old girls) was arrested for allegedly posting instructions to his telegram followers to go and “rhetorically rape” federal MP Allegra Spender.
The Cathedral Range Attack
In May 2021 a group of around 25 NSN members – including Sewell, fresh out on bail for the Channel 9 incident – set out on another hiking trip, this time to the Cathedral Range, a popular hiking destination approximately 115km north-east of Melbourne. Decked out in celtic cross t-shirts and once again out in the bush for a photo-shoot, the NSN took the opportunity to perform their Broadway retinue of salutes and chants, and stickered a few tree trunks for good measure. They were noticed by a group of campers on the hike down and the campers proceeded to record footage of the NSN from their vehicles as they were departing.
The NSN brains trust naturally concluded that these members of the public must be Antifa, for who else in Australia would attempt to film such a spectacle. The ever cautious NSN set upon the group of ‘Antifa’ and surrounded their cars with knives brandished. A few threats, soiled pants and broken car windows later, the NSN had relieved the ‘Antifa’ of their mobile phones and allowed them to speed off in the direction of the local police station in their damaged cars. Hersant and Sewell were later raided by counter-terrorism police and found guilty on charges of violent disorder, earning Sewell his first jail sentence, served whilst on remand for 6 months in solitary confinement conditions. Other NSN members were also raided in April for possession of explosive devices.
The NSN on the early Grampians hiking trip
The sneaky Nazi
The Cathedral Range incident was the ‘breakthrough’ in terms of the NSN’s notoriety. ASIO were now watching the group intently and journalists knew they had a juicy story on their hands. At the same time, an operation had already been set up to infiltrate the NSN. A joint venture of the former Fairfax Press and 60 Minutes, ASIO-backed journalist Nick McKenzie (of part Jewish decent) placed a mole inside the group who breezed through the vetting process in March 2021 and spent months recording footage of the NSN’s private meetups and training sessions. The resultant exposé revealed nothing that nationalists didn’t already know about the NSN. The footage showed members being encouraged to moderate their views when engaging with family members and the general public, and recordings were presented of Sewell comparing ‘Saint’ Brenton Tarrant to Nelson Mandela. The mass murderer is, according to Sewell, a revolutionary freedom fighter destined to one day be freed from the shackles of Auckland Prison.
A half-mast salute
2022 was a quiet year for the NSN, there being not much to report on for the sake of this compilation. In musical terms, 2022 for the NSN was like ‘Good Morning Good Morning’ on the album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Leading members were kept busy dealing with court cases and were on non-association orders which prevented them from joining meetups with the rest of the ‘lads’. The NSN were interviewed for a forgettable documentary, which ruffled the feathers of Antifa, and there was a dumb fracas in a bar as well: NSN members Jimeone Roberts and Stefan Eracleous (both of whom were in contact with Atomwaffen Division founder Brandon Russel) showed up at a venue in Melbourne and some bratty bartender spat in Jimbo’s beer when he noticed the big Sonnenrad tattoo on his arm. Eracleous threatened legal action and somehow managed to get the bar owner to issue to an apology to Tweedledum and Tweedledee and then extracted a few hundred dollars ‘restitution’ from him. All very important stuff for the NSN. Much of far-right’s energy was also tied up with the anti-lockdown protests, which the NSN kept a keen eye on for future recruitment pools – more on that later.
The first of the swastika bans came through in 2022, causing perennial talking head Dvir Abramovich (wheeled out onto the nightly news to kvetch every time the NSN delivered another political bowel movement) to shed “tears of joy.” In Victoria, the ‘Nazi gesture’ [Hitler salute] ban went into operation on the 21st of October 2023. Six days later, Jacob Hersant, outside the County County and in front of pack of journalists and cameras, decided to teasingly test the new law, raising his arm about half way up of a full salute: “Oh, nearly did it, it’s illegal now isn’t it?“ The Victorian government wasn’t having any of that and the courts gave him another one-month jail sentence, Hersant becoming the first person in Australia to be convicted of performing the gesture.
The strange case of Davis
When we last spoke of Joel Davis, he was a rising star in the NSN and an imprimatur of perhaps a tiny bit of intellectual cogency on the group. How far things have fallen. Davis is currently entombed in an isolation unit at Long Bay Correctional Complex, charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, and has had a number of other new offences piled on recently, including the rarely used Victorian ‘racial vilification’ offence. Davis could only watch on impotently from his cell when the NSN collapsed without any assistance from him. Multiple bail applications denied, and with a long legal process ahead of him, Davis appears unlikely to be a free man for some time. Now that the group has tactically disbanded in order to escape law enforcement action, we expect Davis will become a legal scapegoat of sorts – that is, if he hasn’t already made some kind of ‘deal’ in order to move on to his 6th or 7th ideology in as many years.
Joel Davis, about to receive an all-expenses paid vacation, including transport to the venue.
Davis arrived at the NSN in mid-2023 with high hopes of taking the NSN to the next level. At one stage the ambitious attention-seeker appeared close to eclipsing both Sewell and Hersant in public notoriety and we were ready to pin Davis as the future NSN leader, waiting patiently for Sewell to be taken out of the picture. As exposed by us at Inky Australian, Davis’s background is far from the usual pattern of Hitler soldier:
“Joel Davis, a teenage antifa-turned-libertarian became a member of a Jewish intellectual clique after spending time contributing to a suspected intelligence operation. He then dropped everything in order to become a traditionalist Catholic, before once again pivoting 180 degrees to become a neo-Nazi street performer.”
Our exposé certainly blunted his reputation both domestically and internationally, and his pattern of behaviour – causing rifts and falling out with former allies as he shifts from one ideology to the next – became more clear to others. As of January 2026, someone has scrubbed Davis’s telegram of all posts, but readers may recall his commentary during the 12 day Iran-Israel war when the ‘both sides-ism’ came out on full display. Those who pointed out his crypto-Zionism and his particular glee in denigrating the Iranians as weak and ineffectual ‘brown people’ received rage-induced threats in return, Davis almost styling himself a mafia don ordering ‘hits’ on his detractors.
Noticing the Noticer
For the first few years of its existence, the NSN relied on a network of Telegram channels and Gab and X accounts to get their message out, and local media attention – with the exception of David Hiscox’s blog-site XYZ – was uniformly negative. That is, until a curious new website emerged which began to cover the NSN’s antics in a much more positive light. The news website The Noticer showed up around January 2024 without much fanfare, using the tagline “We notice what other news sites don’t” – ‘noticing’ being an ageing Alt-right meme referring to noticing Jewish influence. The Noticer carried advertisements for the British Australian Community (Salter & Richardson’s book Anglophobia, as well as for the 2025 BAC-PAC) and an organisation called ‘Australian Firebrand’ run by the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, a christian sect which has been running independent political campaigns for the Liberal Party.
The Noticer does not make for compelling reading. A typical days coverage is a few migrant-crime of-the-day headlines, an article giving you the latest updates on the NSN’s antics with scoops quite clearly fed to them directly from the NSN leadership, rounded out with an opinion piece from one of their anonymous staff writers or from an NSN flunkey like Stephen Wells. The exact details of The Noticer’s formation are currently unclear but allegations were presented that the site is/was owned by John Macgowan, a former Liberal party ‘dirty tricks’ operator who has moved into the dissident right scene over the last two years. It would certainly explain how the Murdoch Press journalist Fred Pawle (a close associate of Macgowan) ended up penning a few essays for a neo-Nazi clickbait site.
As for the purpose of the Noticer, when you have a grouping comprised of such a hodgepodge of ideologies, whom in a natural environment are in conflict with one another; when you have articles from NSN members appearing alongside Zionist journalists from the Murdoch Press, it’s a sign that whoever is running the show is drawing energy and attention from all these other groups for their own benefit.
The Eracleous Swindle
Stefan Eracleous is a name that the NSN would have preferred to forget. This pint-sized provocateur has been bouncing around far-right groupings since the Alt-right days, daubing the walls of random library bathrooms with swastikas and just being a general nuisance to society (as already discussed above). Senator Lidia Thorpe is a particular target of his trolling, and he is currently facing court for another round of offences directed against the Senator. He also used to go around with a telegram channel plastered with references to the number ‘51’ – a coded symbol referring to the number of victims of the Christchurch attack. The one time treasurer of the Melbourne University Young Liberals and the apprentice to the more senior ‘troll’ Neil Erikson (the less said about him the better) eventually snuggled up with the NSN in what would prove a costly decision for Sewell.
Eracleous after one of his many court hearings
Sewell revealed the extent of this foolhardy recruitment on his telegram channel, accusing Eracleous of having pinched upwards of $40,000 from the NSN in a donation scam. Apparently the crafty Cypriot was going around privately telling people (including the NSN’s international admirers) that he was authorised to collect donations on behalf of the organistion for one of their many legal fundraisers. Instead, Eracleous pocketed the money for himself, Sewell seeing only a measly $400 come his way. What happened after this? Not much it seems. We’re not lawyers, but it doesn’t sound like the NSN had much of a legal case; after all, Eracleous was technically raising money for hard done by NSN members – the NSN member in this case being himself.
Police Doxxer
Sewell stepped things up a notch in reckless imbecility in October 2024 when he threatened a law enforcement officer on one of Joel Davis’ weekly live-streams:
“This guy, he’s got all his social media, like his family, like his wedding photos. We’ve got it all downloaded, we’ve got it all saved…Just working out how to legally post it all in a way that’s just maybe for comic purposes…You wanna dox our boys and then you’ve got like your missus and all your family and the house you bought all on social media, f***ing idiot.”
The police officer in question, who was privately identified by the NSN, had attempted to remove the mask of an NSN member at one of the many protests they conducted over the course of the year 2024. For these comments, Sewell was charged with intimidating a police officer and slapped on the wrist with a community service order. Sewell followed this up with yet another series of threatening comments in November, again on Davis’s podcast, telling the audience (and ASIO) that he would “become a terrorist” if a court were ever to order removal of his children from his custody:
“If you take my child off me, I’m going to start killing people, and I’m going to encourage every single person that I know to also start killing people that are responsible, starting with probably the police and the judges that ordered for a child to come off one of us,”
What kind of political ‘leader’ with a recidivist streak talks like this in public and isn’t carted off in the back of a police van? There was surely a guardian angel involved somewhere.
The White [Nordic] Australia Party
With various legal convictions and new federal laws outlawing any overt display of national socialist iconography (including their own logos) weighing them down, the NSN/EAM re-branded as good old Aussie Nationalists, an attempt which fooled absolutely nobody in Australia (but unfortunately a few people overseas). The NSN’s protests on Australia Day 2025 saw them cosplaying as dinky-di patriots singing Walting Maltida instead of Erika. “I am under arrest for celebrating Australia Day” – Sewell could be heard yelling out. In this context, the ‘White Australia‘ group was born. We have already written about how the NSN utterly failed to understand the meaning or purpose of White Australia. Indeed consistent ‘nordicist’ commentary from Sewell, Davis & Co. denigrating Slavs and Mediterraneans – which they always attempted to write off as mere banter or ‘shitposting’ – demonstrate that the ‘White’ in their ‘White Australia Party’ likely means something other than what most Australians would understand it to be.
After canvassing support for a year, the NSN was boasting that they had the required supporter numbers in order to sign up the party with the Australian Electoral Commission. To its credit, the AEC refused to buckle under the political pressure when news of this electoral attempt got out and re-iterated its political impartiality, as well as the constitutional rights afforded to all Australians. The NSN never pressed ‘go’ on the federal White Australia Party application, despite allegedly reaching the required signatures a while before the new ‘hate group’ laws passed. Maybe they chickened out, or just were taking forever with the paperwork.
The National Sex-worker Network
The year 2025 saw the entrance of an unusual NSN recruit, a certain Nigel Clifford (alias ‘Stirling Cooper’, turn safe-search off at your own risk) who was spotted at a number of NSN training events and other meetups. The man is, to use the modern lingo, a retired ‘sex worker’ with a YouTube channel offering his services as a sex coach. He has also published pamphlets with titles like ‘How I Grew My Penis and Other Porn Industry Secrets’ and ‘Preventing Premature Ejaculation’. Nothing says neo-Nazism like a porn star but then again, given how performative the whole thing is, putting on Sutton Hoo costumes and play acting as a Hitler soldier for the cameras whilst the State f*cks you from behind, there is a degree of conceptual symmetry. The new recruit appeared to rub off on other members, with comments from Joel Davis on his podcast in late 2025 speaking of the NSN embracing ‘goonerism’ and ‘sex positivity’.
Aside from his pornography credentials and NSN activism, Clifford is a manosphere ‘dude’ who appears on popular anti-feminist podcasts such as Fresh and Fit and Valuetainment, and is a side-kick of the mulatto accused rapist Andrew Tate. Clifford was allegedly involved as collaborator in Tate’s Romanian business venture, a modern version of the white slave trade which lured vulnerable young slavic women into webcam pornography schemes. The Tate brothers Andrew and Tristan are currently facing multiple legal investigations and criminal charges in the UK, USA and Romania on counts of rape, human trafficking, sexual abuse and tax evasion. Leaked videos obtained from Andrew Tate’s online seminars highlight how Tate and Clifford make a point of teaching men how isolate women from their friends and relatives in a form of coercive control. Learning this tactic is highly advantageous to members of groups such as the NSN who are almost assured to receive push-back from a young woman’s family when they find out who and what her new boyfriend is involved with.
The March for Australia
Undoubtedly the highlight of the year 2025 for the NSN, the ‘March for Australia’ rallies on August 31st 2025 were their swansong. The rallies against mass immigration which took place in all the major cities were an opportunity for them to once again push their way to front of the debate and tarnish the entire thing as a Nuremberg rally. The rallies appear to have been initiated by members of the Freedom movement but the NSN’s contacts with the anti-vaxxers allowed them to worm their way into the organisational structure. Rally organisers Rebecca ‘Bec Freedom’ Walker and Hugo ‘Auspill’ Lennon have now come out openly as NSN stooges. As for the NSN’s actions on the day, they fell into the usual pattern.
Nothing says ‘Australian Nationalism’ like a Union Jack patch
Splitting up their forces across the states, Sewell’s unit showed up at the Melbourne rally, dispatching a small group of Antifa who stood in their path and made their way to the head of the rally, eventually onto the podium in front of Parliament House where Sewell delivered a speech about “defending Australia from Palestinians” or something. Sewell clearly felt the NSN’s Melbourne contingent hadn’t punched up enough people yet that day, so on the way home they made a detour to an Aboriginal protest gathering called ‘Camp Sovereignty’ and raided the encampment with a pointless attack on the occupants. More charges obviously followed. Sewell later thought it wise to shout insults at Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan, gatecrashing her press conference while on a court recess for these charges.
In Sydney, the protest was unmarred by violence but a unit led by Davis and emergent NSW leader Jack Eltis did manage to prevent Dr. Jim Saleam from speaking to the crowd. The Brisbane rally – unit led by Hersant – was also uneventful. From what we understand, Brisbane’s M4A was organised by a group of kosher-patriots with ties to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation who were less than keen to give the NSN a platform. They gave the microphone to an Indian man (a dreaded brown person!) who blathered about civic nationalism, which of course enraged the NSN, leading to them swarming the social media accounts of the Queensland organisers.
Going Helter Skelter
“When we win…I’m going to make an example… I’m gonna do shit that’s never been done before in fucking recorded history.. I’m gonna do crazy shit… I’m gonna make Helter Skelter look like a moderate”
The above quoted comment, issued by Sewell on an appearance on Patriotic Weekly Review in December 2025, gives lie to any delusion that Sewell has mellowed after years of political organising, nor has he learnt to shut his trap when it comes to the deranged violent fantasies that so clearly swim around inside that bald head of his. In the same podcast appearance, Sewell was defensive of old friends involved in the terrorist group National Action, “young guys who made a few mistakes and got lost in the source”. What does psychopathic cult leader Charles Manson and his gang of murderers have to do with Australia’s demographic problems and what does it even have to do with the historical national socialism that Sewell claims to be conversant with? (Without a doubt Manson, if he had existed during the Third Reich, would have been given a speedy trip to a concentration camp.) Who knows, but its just another one of those things that somehow made its way into neo-Nazism – most probably by means of nefarious actors working for three-letter agencies – and swallowed up whole by psychotic edgelords on the internet.
Kapustin goes Kaput(or not)
“We will remember you Denis. And we will avenge you. Rest in Valhalla, White Rex. Heroes never die, will always be remembered by us.” – Thomas Sewell
It is fitting that the penultimate entry on this list is Sewell issuing a send-off to a dear friend of his. Within three weeks of this eulogy for Denis ‘White Rex’ Kapustin, Sewell was eulogising his own political organisation. Who is Kapustin? Enough people have already written about this odious character but to give you the basics, the man Sewell was eulogising as an ‘Aryan Warrior’ died in combat in Ukraine on the side of the Zelensky regime. Aside from fighting on behalf of a Jewish president and the forces of world Jewry (America), Kapustin is also at least of partial Jewish descent himself (probably a mischling), his family having been accepted into Germany in 2001 as Jewish-quota refugees. None of this seemed to really matter to the Jew-hating National Socialist Network, nor for Kapustin’s many other friends in the international far-right.
Originally involved with soccer hooligans, Kapustin was known for his clothing brand ‘White Rex’ and the MMA tournaments he organised across Europe. As we mentioned previously, Kapustin was the inspiration for the ‘Active Club’ movement founded by Rob Rundo which so impressed Sewell that he re-jigged the NSN/EAM to fit the concept. When the Ukraine war broke out in 2022, Kapustin formed the Russian Volunteer Corp (RDK), a unit of ‘neo-nazis’ created by Ukranian military intelligence that operated in the war zones of eastern Ukraine. The RDK received funding from Leonid Nevzlin, an Israeli oligarch and co-owner of Israels Haaretz newspaper, with Nevzlin also mourning the death of Kapustin in terms as emotional as Sewell’s eulogy. In the end, Kapustin didn’t kark it: his handlers faked his death in order to collect a Russian bounty that had been sitting on Kapustin’s head ever since the RDK brutalised some Russian civilians on a cross-border raid to the Bryansk Oblast.
Here is perhaps the final indictment of the NSN and the clearest indication we have that the entire project (and perhaps the whole Active Club concept as well) operated, consciously or unconsciously, as an Australian ‘Gladio’ force. Maybe that was the hidden purpose of the Iron March forum all along. We know that a handful of NSN members ended up in Ukraine and the NSN leadership have already primed their followers to fall in line with the Australian government if or when some kind of a war against China, Russia or Iran requires our involvement. Just like when the Ukranian neo-Nazis gleefully signed up to shoot Russians – with Zelensky and Kapustin cackling in the background about how dumb the goyim are – many former NSN members and hangers-on will surely get into uniform and jump at the chance to go and shoot at some Asians or some ‘browns’ in the Middle East.
The End
The end came quickly for the NSN. The ‘Hate Group’ legislation drafted by former Attorney General Mark Dreyfus and improved upon by antisemitism envoy Jillan Segal had been in lying in wait for the right moment and the right moment finally arrived on December 14th 2025, when a Pakistani father and son duo unloaded shotgun rounds at a Chabad gathering on Bondi Beach. Within a month, the National Socialist Network, the European Australian Movement and White Australia were wrapped up and its members scattered to the four winds. The NSN ended the way nationalists always predicted it would: the group set to be proscribed, the hate speech laws strengthened, the counter-terrorism budget beefed up, and the general public’s view of Australian Nationalism degraded even further – all served up on a nice big platter to the State by Thomas Sewell.
Sewell has raised some funds allegedly for a legal challenge to the new laws, but with six active legal cases currently against him stemming from all sorts of violent incidents over the past two years (somehow he always gets out on bail), the government has ample opportunity to put him out of action and even then a High Court challenge will take at least 1.5-2 years from filing to final judgement. It remains to be seen what former members do in the meantime; all these young guys hyped up by the NSN’s accelerationist rhetoric are now isolated and very much alone. That’s a powder-keg waiting to explode somewhere. There will undoubtedly be a handful that try to circumvent the new laws, just like their National Action buddies in the UK did. They also thought they were being clever when they uploaded all those racial slur-filled NSN edits and posted violent comments one last time before wiping their telegram channels, but those posts will have all been dutifully recorded and stored away by ASIO. The latest movements indicate the system may even try for a ‘terrorist group’ listing rather than just a ‘hate group’ listing.
As for Australians nationalists, well, we now have to deal a generation of men who essentially carry around a bag of nuclear waste in their pockets at all times and will give radiation poisoning to any political grouping they come into contact with. And finally to Sewell and the rest of the NSN leadership: us nationalists – who saw through all the lies, all the Hitler cultism, all the terrorist rhetoric – are still here standing, no thanks to you lot and the laws you spent six years taunting the government into passing.
Fin