A massive group of nationalist protesters marched through Melbourne’s CBD for almost an hour on Saturday morning, bringing late-night traffic to a standstill.
About 150 members of the National Socialist Network – the activist branch of political organisation White Australia – paraded along the city’s busiest streets just before 1am accompanied by a drummer.
The group, who were all dressed in black and wearing masks except for leader Thomas Sewell, chanted “White man fight back” and had a flag bearing the same slogan carried at the front of the procession along with the Australian and NSN flags.
National Socialist Network marching through Melbourne at 1am.
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Surrounded by police, the activists marched up Bourke St towards Parliament House before turning back and doing multiple loops of the city while revellers spilled out the bars, restaurants and clubs to watch and film from their phones.
Footage obtained by Noticer News shows some onlookers clapping and cheering, while others hurled abuse and demanded the outnumbered police stop the march.
Prominent NSN member Joel Davis, who is banned from X at the request of the Australian government, posted a video on his Telegram channel where he said the protest showed that Melbourne was becoming the “Nazi capital of Australia”.
“We just did our biggest ever march, 150 men of the black battalions, marching at midnight Friday night in Melbourne, it was a full moon and it was our biggest march in history,” Mr Davis said.
“It was quite something because the police just had to accept our presence, we’ve been treated very poorly by police in the past, we’ve now grown large enough that they simply have to accept the fact that if we want to march, we will march.
“It’s a great moment, the movement is rising, White Australia is rising.”
Noticer News understands the group, who also sang patriotic songs and chanted “blood and honour” during the march, dispersed on the edge of the CBD, and no arrests were made.
The march comes six months after the same group was targeted by police while doing a similar march in Adelaide on Australia Day, resulting in 16 arrests, and 17 men being charged, including Mr Sewell at the beginning of the rally and Mr Davis three days later.
Western Australian man Stephen Wells spent four months in jail, much of it in solitary confinement, on loitering charges that were eventually dropped, along with those laid against most of the remainder.
Header image: Left, right, the CBD march (supplied).
