An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.
'No reasonable opportunity' to stop 15yo from killing Sydney police worker
An inquest into the shooting death of Sydney police accountant Curtis Cheng has found there was "no reasonable opportunity" for law enforcement officials to intervene prior to the shooting.
Topic:Courts
Fri 5 Jun 2026 at 3:45pm
Boxing trainer suspended after neo-Nazi Sewell trained at his gym
ABC NEWS Verify can reveal that neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell has been training at a boxing gym in the outer-Melbourne suburb of Diamond Creek, a short drive from where he is living. The gym has been suspended by the sport's governing body.
Topic:Extremism
Thu 4 Jun 2026 at 11:44am
Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell broadcasting hate on Instagram from Victorian acreage
ABC NEWS Verify can reveal that Neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell has been uploading antisemitic and homophobic diatribes to Instagram from a property on the outskirts of Melbourne.
Topic:Extremism
Thu 4 Jun 2026 at 11:19am
Neo-Nazis fundraising to challenge laws that listed them as hate group
The leader of Neo-Nazi group National Socialist Network, Thomas Sewell, has appeared in an interview online alongside notorious US Neo-Nazi James Mason, who is listed as a terrorist entity by the Canadian government.
Topic:Extremism
Sat 16 May 2026 at 10:02am
Neo-Nazi group banned in Australia under hate laws
White Australia will be listed as a hate group, making it illegal to support the organisation in any way.
Topic:Extremism
Fri 15 May 2026 at 7:09pm
DFAT says it has not been talking with Syria about return of 'ISIS brides'
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says it has not had any contact with Syrian officials about the return of a group of Australian women and children with links to the Islamic State terrorist group.
Topic:Foreign Affairs
Thu 7 May 2026 at 5:25pm
Indecision, secrets, and 'inevitability': Behind the latest 'ISIS bride' return
Advocates and the former Home Affairs boss say the return of another wave of so-called 'ISIS brides' was "inevitable". But a hands-off approach means Labor lost control of the narrative.
Topic:Extremism
Thu 7 May 2026 at 3:50pm
The four women who left 'Australia Street' to try and leave Syria
Four Australian women, their children and grandchildren are stuck in limbo in Syria after leaving a refugee camp for family members of suspected Islamic State fighters. This is what we know about them.
Topic:Refugees
Sat 2 May 2026 at 5:41am
'Free Palestine' party plans to funnel votes to Victorian conservatives
Victorian voters are being urged to look out for "misleading" party names, as right-wing activists seek to redirect progressive votes to conservative parties.
Topic:Elections
Thu 30 Apr 2026 at 10:16am
Bondi gunman fails to have family's identities suppressed for 40 years
Lawyers for Bondi gunman Naveed Akram fail in a bid to have the identities of his mother, brother and sister protected by a decades-long court suppression order on safety grounds.
Topic:Courts
Thu 2 Apr 2026 at 1:14pm
The movement on the rise that police believe aided fugitive Dezi Freeman
As detectives investigate whether the sovereign citizen community helped harbour police killer Dezi Freeman, researchers say the anti-government movement appears to be surging in regional Australia.
Topic:Explainer
Thu 2 Apr 2026 at 8:00am
Jewish people scared to join Bondi inquiry, former royal commissioner says
Ronald Sackville who led the disability royal commission says it is unlikely the the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion can properly examine the experiences of Jewish Australians before its December 2026 deadline.
Topic:Royal Commissions
Wed 1 Apr 2026 at 9:50am
Alarm raised over US goverment's 'flat-out white supremacist' social media posts
The White House faces scrutiny over posts experts describe as "flat out white supremacist" amid calls for oversight after ICE agents left "death cards" in immigrants' cars.
Topic:World Politics
Sun 22 Mar 2026 at 7:57am
Bondi gunman's family living in fear, court told
A lawyer has revealed Naveed Akram's mother and siblings have been targeted with abusive messages, death threats, stalking and pork chops being thrown into their driveway.
Topic:Courts
Tue 17 Mar 2026 at 1:42pm
Bondi Beach gunman seeks to suppress family's identity over safety concerns
Naveed Akram faces 59 charges, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist attack, over the shooting on December 14.
Topic:Courts
Mon 9 Mar 2026 at 6:04pm
'Just vile': Police probe fourth offensive letter threatening mosque
A three-page "essay of condemnation" addressed to a leader of the Sydney Muslim community sparks renewed fears of escalating threats of violence.
Topic:Extremism
Tue 3 Mar 2026 at 9:50am
Alleged terrorist who stabbed bishop diagnosed with schizophrenia
A teenager who slipped the intelligence net and stabbed a Sydney bishop in an alleged terrorist attack 20 months before the Bondi Beach massacre has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, a court hears.
Topic:Courts
Fri 27 Feb 2026 at 2:24pm
Teen boys driving homophobic attacks in NSW, police data reveals
Police recorded 197 incidents of LGBTQIA+ hate-related violence and charged 103 people over the attacks since 2023.
Topic:Crime
Fri 27 Feb 2026 at 10:52am
WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE Young man kicked unconscious in IS-inspired homophobic attack
An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims’ accounts of ISIS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.
Topic:LGBTQIA+
Thu 26 Feb 2026 at 11:42am
WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE A young man is bashed in an IS-inspired homophobic attack
An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims’ accounts of ISIS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.
Topic:LGBTQIA+
Thu 26 Feb 2026 at 5:47am