{"id":112109,"date":"2025-09-02T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112109\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:59:09","slug":"premier-responds-to-neo-nazis-verbal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/112109\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier responds to neo-Nazi’s verbal attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has spoken out after prominent n\ufeffeo-Nazi Thomas Sewell crashed her press conference in Melbourne<\/a> this morning, just days after he prominently joined Sunday’s anti-immigration march.<\/p>\n

Allan was with Treasure Jaclyn Symes in North Melbourne when Sewell arrived.<\/p>\n

“Why don’t Australians have the right to protest?” Sewell could be heard saying.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell yells at Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan at a press conference in West Melbourne. (Rachel Eddie)<\/p>\n

“Why do you want to ban us from protesting? Shouldn’t we have the right to speak in our own country?”\ufeff<\/p>\n

Sewell was held back by security as Allan and Symes quickly left.<\/p>\n

Sewell was heard telling security, “You don’t have the right to put your hands on me”.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Thomas Sewell approaches the press conference from behind Premier Jacinta Allan and MP Sheena Watts. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

“We’re going to take this country back from politicians like you,” he said to Allan.<\/p>\n

Sewell left the scene \ufeffafter Allan, walking away on foot.<\/p>\n

“Victoria Police is aware of an incident at a media stand-up in North Melbourne this morning where a man attended and was verbally abusive towards the premier,” a police spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

“The premier’s security team intervened to ensure the safety of everyone present and the man left shortly after.”<\/p>\n

Allan also issued a statement, saying she was “unharmed and undeterred”.<\/p>\n

\"Neo-NaziNeo-Nazi Thomas Sewell gatecrashes a Victorian government press conference on Tuesday morning. (Rachel Eddie)<\/p>\n

She said it was a “badge of honour” to earn the ire of Nazis.<\/p>\n

“But this isn’t about me. It’s about all the other people in the community who Nazis target – like multicultural people, LGBTIQA+ people, First Peoples, and Jews,” she said in the written statement.<\/p>\n

“They’re the Victorians who are on my mind right now, and they’re the Victorians who our anti-hate laws will protect when they come into force later this month.”<\/p>\n

The new legislation will strengthen Victoria’s existing vilification laws, and make it a criminal offence to incite hate or threaten harm based on a protected attribute.<\/p>\n

“We know how these goons operate. They whip up fear to divide our society. They will fail,” Allan said of Sewell.<\/p>\n

“Because Victorians are fair, and our values are strong.”<\/p>\n

The New Zealand-born white nationalist figure recently made a speech to the crowd at the anti-immigration March For Australia rally in Melbourne on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Thomas Sewell at the March for Australia rally. (Photograph by Chris Hopkins)<\/p>\n

In his tirade at the press conference, Sewell also incorrectly claimed 50,000 people attended that rally.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, he was also seen in a crowd that allegedly attacked an Indigenous encampment, Camp Sovereignty, after splitting off from the main rally.<\/p>\n

Police are investigating the incident, which Police Minister Andrew Carbines labelled “gutless”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan has spoken out after prominent n\ufeffeo-Nazi Thomas Sewell crashed her press conference in Melbourne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-112109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}