Australia’s peak Jewish representative body has called for laws to proscribe neo-Nazis as an extremist organisation, while the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service has called for the National Socialist Network to be treated as domestic terrorists.

Peter Wertheim, Executive Council of Australian Jewry co-chief executive, said federal and state governments should respond to the rise of right-wing extremism in the same way that police deal with outlaw motorcycle gangs.

Thomas Sewell (centre) at Sunday’s anti-immigration March for Australia In Melbourne. Credit: Chris Hopkins

Wertheim said the National Socialist Network (NSN), led by Thomas Sewell, had not engaged in terrorist activities but had shown “a clear propensity for hate-fuelled thuggery and menace” that required additional polic

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