“RIGHT” SAID FRED

SOMETHING IS HAPPENING in the “far right” when a character like Fred Pawle strays from the conservative pitch and his ‘work’ suddenly appears on XYZ’s sister site alongside pieces defending the National Socialist Network (NSN). It doesn’t add up. But neither does…

The XYZ of political finagling

For years now we’ve been aware of an Alt-Right website that hosts certain Young Liberals not above styling themselves as nationalists.
XYZ was created in 2015, at the height of the Alt-Right phenomenon, as a local response. It is listed prominently in the Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s report into anti-Semitism, but unlike nationalists, they are never harassed by media companies nor the police. In short, they continue on all the platforms where true political threats have become proscribed.