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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Basford Canales

Ban on neo-Nazi White Australia party is ‘authoritarian’ and breaches constitution, high court hears

National Socialist Network leader Thomas Sewell
Members of the White Australia party, including its leader, Thomas Sewell, sat in the front of the courtroom’s public benches. Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian

Lawyers for an outlawed neo-Nazi political party have argued anti-hate laws passed after the Bondi terror attack rely on the opinion of a politician and are “authoritarian in nature”.

The White Australia party, formerly known as the National Socialist Network (NSN), was designated as an illegal hate group in May after the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation passed on its recommendation to the home affairs minister, Tony Burke.

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