Guardian Australia · Krishani Dhanji · Friday 15 May 2026
The Albanese government has listed the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network as a prohibited hate group, criminalising membership and support with penalties up to 15 years.
Burke's banned the brownshirts and the lawyers are already sharpening pencils on the definition of 'support'. The Bondi attack was a lone bloke with a knife and a head full of nothing in particular — and out of it we've built a proscription regime that'll outlive every minister who voted for it. Menzies tried to ban the Communist Party. The High Court remembered what country it was in.