Nationalist activist Thomas Sewell has responded to the government’s listing of the White Australia Party as a “prohibited hate group”, revealing he is challenging the laws in the High Court, and that ASIO recommended the ban on same day he registered the party.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke on Friday afternoon confirmed that White Australia and co-projects the National Socialist Network and the European Australian Movement has been banned under new “hate groups” laws passed in the wake of the Bondi Islamic terrorist attack.
The ban, which Mr Burke said came after ASIO delivered a recommendation on Anzac Day, comes into effect at midnight, meaning anyone who joins, directs, supports, funds, or recruits for the group could face criminal charges and a maximum 15 years in prison.
Mr Sewell and other leaders disbanded the organisation before the laws were passed in January and raised $150,000 for a legal challenge, but Mr Burke alleged in his ban announcement the group were “phoenixing” and “were still engaging in the exact sort of behaviour that met the thresholds for this legislation”.
Thomas Sewell makes a final address responding to the government listing the White Australia Party as a “prohibited hate group”.
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Mr Sewell responded to the ban in a video address on Friday evening supplied to Noticer News where he described the ban as antithetical to liberal democracy and an attack on White Australians.
“Only a few weeks ago, only April 25th, on Anzac Day, we registered a White Australia political party with the Australian Electoral Commission. Although we filed this paperwork with some letters from our lawyers stating that we’ve also put in a High Court appeal to the current laws that may be used against us if we try to file a political party,” he said.
“You see, Australia is meant to be a representative democracy, meaning that Australians of all walks of life, regardless of what their versions of history are or what their favourite colours are, they can participate in the parliamentary process.
“And so we have filed paperwork with the High Court as of today. I believe that ASIO was aware of this, that’s why they recommended on Anzac Day, on the 25th of April, that we were continuing to organise, and it’s why today, of all days, they decided to prescribe us.
“This aligns perfectly with our timeline for our announcement that we were going to create a political party that will represent White Australians who are currently being ethnically replaced by their government.”
Mr Sewell went on to say the ban coincided with the Trump administration declaring that the United Nations was facilitating replacement migration in the United States and across the West, and vowing to pursue a policy of remigration instead.
“The reason why the Labor Party and the uniparty wish to remove us from Parliament is because they do not want to debate our ideas, and they do not want to compete with us within parliament,” he said.
“Instead, they wish to criminalise us and use the police force as a mercenary wing of their party to crush opposition.
“The other reason why we are a threat to the system is not only that we stand in the way of the Great Replacement of White people here in Australia, but also because we wish to free White Australians from debt slavery.
“Now, if our High Court injunction fails, then the fate of liberal democracy dies with the fate of White Australia, and you will be able to say to your grandchildren, you were present when honourable men tried the peaceful method of resisting a government that is hell-bent on the destruction of our people.”
The order made by the Governor-General on Friday, titled Criminal Code (Prohibited Hate Group—White Australia) Regulations 2026, states: “For the purposes of the definition of prohibited hate group in subsection 114A.2(1) of the Criminal Code, the organisation known as White Australia is specified.
“White Australia is also known by the following names: (a) WA; (b) WAP; (c) White Australia Party.”
No other group names are listed.
Former White Australia NSW leader Jack Eltis shared a copy of the AEC registration on Friday evening, revealing the name White Australia Party and WAP abbreviation.
“It was never anyone’s intention to try and ‘circumvent’ the disbandment that we announced. We disbanded and it was genuine, and we were always going to transition into ‘system approved’ party politics, but they won’t even allow that,” Mr Eltis wrote.
Mr Burke said during his announcement he had not received any advice that ASIO were looking at any other groups, and when asked why ASIO had determined White Australia had allegedly increased the risk of violence, he cited “specific violent action” in Melbourne, and “threats” allegedly “motivated by White supremacist ideology”.
Shadow home affairs minister Jonno Duniam called the ban a “welcome development”, called the laws “responsible and effective”, and said “the modus operandi of these Neo-Nazis is to destroy the Australian way of life”.
“Our message to them is that your ideology of hate has no place in our society and that if your criminal organisation persists, it will be shut down and your members punished,” he said.
The ban came after Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir was listed in March, and Mr Burke said no arrests had been made in relation to that group.
Legal experts have warned the “hate groups” laws are open to abuse and could be used to ban political opposition, including One Nation, resulting in party leader Pauline Hanson vowing to repeal them.
Header image: Left, Thomas Sewell in his speech. Right, a National Socialist Network march in Melbourne (supplied).
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