Thomas Sewell might be the current face of neo-Nazism in Australia but wherever his bald head pops up inciting racial hatred it is likely right-hand man Nathan Bull will be standing beside him.
When Bull first emerged on the far-right scene a couple of years ago he was a baby-faced stirrer with a penchant for offensive T-shirts and juvenile antics. He is now a 23-year-old father and his childish smirk has gone.
Sewell is the leader of the National Socialist Network (NSN) and has long courted media attention, while Bull – the son of a Victorian policeman – has generally been seen as an insignificant young offsider.
That changed last weekend when Bull was part of the NSN raiding party who stormed Camp Sovereignty at Melbourne‘s Kings Domain park, an Aboriginal sacred site near the Shrine of Remembrance.
Suddenly, Bull was seen on news website and television bulletins around the country snarling through a mouthguard as he stood next to Sewell, who appeared to be throwing a punch at a campsite occupier.
The encampment was born of the Black GST Movement, which campaigns for an end to genocide, the acknowledgement of Indigenous sovereignty and making treaties with Indigenous Australians.
About 30 men dressed in black invaded Camp Sovereignty after an anti-immigration rally held under the March for Australia banner in Melbourne’s central business district on Sunday.
The intruders were filmed trampling an Aboriginal flag amid a violent scuffle in which Camp Sovereignty occupiers were allegedly punched, kicked and hit with a pole.
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