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Online network Terrorgram has been listed as a terrorist organisation.

Australian members of Terrorgram white supremacist network face 25 years’ jail

The online group, which has been referenced in the manifestos of several terrorists around the world, will be listed as a terrorist organisation.

  • Olivia Ireland

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Transgender rights activists demonstrate outside the Victorian parliament in 2022.

Police invoke powers to unmask disruptors as women’s rights rally returns to scene of neo-Nazi stunt

Tough search-and-arrest powers will be in force on Saturday around state parliament, where trans-rights activists plan to disrupt a women’s rights rally which last year was crashed by right-wing extremists.

  • Chip Le Grand
A touring exhibition for school kids in Russia compares Ukraine with Nazi Germany and describes Australia, the EU and Nordic countries as supporters of Nazism.

Russian children taught Australia ‘supports Nazism’ in propaganda push

The content falsely equates Western military and financial aid to Ukraine with ideological support for Nazism.

  • Rob Harris
Daniel Jones, who runs a self-defence outfit, has posted pictures and videos of himself wielding guns and even rocket launchers online.

Revealed: the far-right agitators who confronted the PM in a hotel lobby

One of the men said people should train “to be able to kill” and posted footage of himself wielding machineguns and rocket launchers.

  • Sherryn Groch
The AfD, now the second-largest party in the German government, is on a similar electoral trajectory to Hitler’s Nazi Party.

Echoes of 1930s Europe grow ever louder. We ignore them at our peril

The far right is on the march again in Germany. The parallels with the rise of Hitler almost a century ago are everywhere.

  • Dennis Glover
Friedrich Merz, front right, leader of the Christian Democratic Union, gestures while addressing supporters at the party headquarters in Berlin.

‘Never thought I would have to say something like this’: Germany turns away from US

Germany’s new leader did not even wait for the final election results before delivering his verdict on the US President - and charting the path forward.

  • Rob Harris
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AfD leader Alice Weidel takes part in a televised discussion in Germany last Sunday.

The woman leading Germany’s far-right resurgence

Terrorist attacks and job cuts have left Germans feeling bitter, and Alice Weidel is set to benefit in an election some say could seal the fate of Europe.

  • Rob Harris
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Thousands died in this city 80 years ago – now the far right wants to own the story

Three nights of unrelenting bombing destroyed Dresden in 1945. As snow fell at the weekend, neo-Nazi supporters took to its streets to “mourn” – and win political support.

  • Rob Harris
US Vice President J.D. Vance stuns the audience at the 61st Munich Security Conference with his intervention in European politics.

Vance stuns Europeans with lesson on whom to trust

Leaders had gathered expecting to hear the Trump administration’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine. The US vice president decided to toe the Elon Musk line instead.

  • Jim Tankersley, Steven Erlanger and David E. Sanger
Members of the National Socialist Network are arrested as they hold a counter-protest on Australia Day in Adelaide.

Australian neo-Nazis suspended from X

White supremacists Thomas Sewell and Blair Cottrell had their accounts suspended on Tuesday, two days after this masthead reported neo-Nazism was thriving on the platform.

  • Paul Sakkal

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