Thomas Sewell (Australian neo-Nazi)

Thomas Sewell is an Australian neo-Nazi and leader of the National Socialist Network. He is the founder of the Lads Society and has served in the Australian Defence Force. As of 2020, Sewell publishes content on encrypted messaging platform Telegram.
Sewell is known for his association with other prominent neo-Nazis, controversial public stunts including cross burning and racially motivated assault. Sewell had attempted to recruit the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings, Brenton Harrison Tarrant, into the Lads Society.
In March 2021, Victoria Police's counter-terrorism command charged Sewell with affray, recklessly causing injury and unlawful assault. The charges were laid after Sewell published a video of himself online racially abusing and assaulting a Channel Nine security guard.
On 14 May 2021, Sewell was arrested by counter-terrorism police at his home in Rowville in Melbourne's east, suffering an injury to his hand during the arrest. He faced a Melbourne court over an alleged armed robbery in Victoria's Cathedral Range.
Political views.
Sewell is a neo-Nazi. He is associated with a number of other well known far-right neo-Nazi extremists including Blair Cottrell and Neil Erikson of the United Patriots Front and the Lads Society of which he was a founding member along with Cottrell and Erikson.
In 2017, Thomas Sewell asked Brenton Harrison Tarrant (the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings) to join the Lads Society, but Tarrant refused.
Political activities.
Sewell is the founder of the Lads Society, a far-right white nationalist group. and is the leader of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Network.
Australia Day get together.
In January 2021, over the Australia Day weekend, 38 members of Sewell's National Socialist Network chanted "white power" and shouted Sieg Heil and other racist slogans at passers by. The group were photographed throwing roman salutes and holding a cross burning — a ritual usually associated with the Ku Klux Klan — next to Lake Bellfield at the foot of the Grampians in western Victoria. The groups actions drew the attention of local police and intelligence officers from Victoria Police's Counter-Terrorism Command. 
Altercation with security guard.
In March 2021, a report on far-right extremism by A Current Affair was aired. An hour before the report was aired, Sewell and an unidentified accomplice arrived at the Nine Network office in Melbourne and demanded to speak to staff regarding the program. After being told to leave the premises, a physical altercation occurred between Sewell and a security guard after the security guard attempted to physically remove Sewell's associate (after detaining the film crew's property commanding him multiple times to not film on private property). The incident was filmed and later posted on social media by Sewell himself. The altercation drew condemnation from Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews who labelled it as "sickening". Victoria Police's counter-terrorism command charged Sewell with affray, recklessly causing injury and unlawful assault.