The Neo-Nazis are gone. The Islamic terrorists remain safe. By Flat White in The Spectator.

The National Socialist Network (referred to commonly as the Neo-Nazis), has announced its intention to imminently dissolve before the new anti-hate laws pass.

Also included are what it described as ‘co-projects’ including White Australia, the European Australian Movement, and the White Australia Party.

These groups have said they will disband no later than 11:59 on Sunday, January 2026.

A press release from White Australia read:

If the laws pass, there will be no way to avoid the organisation being banned. The legislation allows the government to ban any organisation that has given Roman salutes [the Nazi salute] in the past.

The disbandment is being done before the laws take effect to avoid former members of the organisations from being arrested and charged.

They signed off their message with the Hitler Youth rally cry, ‘Blood and Honour’.

Very few will shed a tear for the tiny collection of ideologically confused Neo-Nazis who typically conducted their ‘protests’ in the dead of night and were confined mostly to Melbourne.

(Not the kind of ‘diversity’ the Premier was envisioning, no doubt. But then again, there’s a lot wrong with Victoria right now.)

These groups, at least one of which intended to contest the next election, were very clearly the target of the government’s new hate-speech laws. Neo-Nazis have been a convenient pivot for many years, allowing lazy politicians to move conversations about Islamic terrorism to general ‘hate-speech’ discussions every time they are put on the spot by a reporter.

Go back and watch the press conferences from government ministers about the Bondi attack. Almost every time, the topic starts with Islamic terrorism and finishes with ‘the Neo-Nazis’.

With the Neo-Nazis gone, the Labor government will no longer have a convenient scapegoat to explain the distinct failures of Australian political leadership over the previous three decades which has led directly to the establishment of extensive and varied radical Islamic groups inside our capital cities.