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Gateway Extremism: How Australia’s neo-Nazis use combat sports to radicalize and recruit

In August 2021, 60 Minutes, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Age published the first part of an eight-month major investigation into the Australia’s largest neo-Nazi group, the National Socialist Network (NSN). The in-depth expose revealed the identities of the extremist organization’s senior members and how the group is attempting to infiltrate Australian politics by having candidates elected who could help push their far-right policies.

With the help of an undercover mole who was able to secretly film the group’s activities, reporters Nick McKenzie and Joel Tozer unmasked some of the key figures within NSN, several of whom have since lost their jobs.