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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jordyn Beazley

Neo-Nazi group challenges hate ban by arguing law ‘operates as a doorway to tyranny’

National Socialist Network leader Thomas Sewell at an anti-immigration rally in August 2025
Neo-Nazi National Socialist Network leader Thomas Sewell at an anti-immigration rally in August 2025. Photograph: Charlie Kinross/The Guardian

A neo-Nazi group, which is aiming to start a political party and was last week banned as a hate group, has launched legal action against the commonwealth that will test the constitutional validity of the prohibition.

The federal government on Friday banned neo-Nazi group the National Socialist Network (NSN), also known as White Australia, by listing it as a prohibited hate group under legislation passed in the wake of December’s Bondi beach terror attack.

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