Neo-Nazi group White Australia has lost its bid for temporary immunity from anti-hate laws passed after the Bondi terror attack which it says will render it \u201cextinct\u201d.<\/p>\n
The organisation, which has been seeking to register as a political party, had asked the high court to temporarily block its designation as a prohibited hate group.<\/p>\n
But on Thursday, the chief justice of the high court, Stephen Gageler, dismissed White Australia\u2019s bid for an injunction.<\/p>\n
White Australia is also challenging the broader constitutionality of anti-hate speech laws passed after the Bondi Beach mass shooting.<\/p>\n
A two-day hearing on the matter is scheduled for September.<\/p>\n
Arguing for the injunction on Thursday, White Australia\u2019s lawyer, Peter King, said the organisation\u2019s listing as a prohibited hate group would permanently shut it down.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless restrained, there will be an extinction of the organisation,\u201d he told the high court.<\/p>\n
The home affairs minister, Tony Burke, declared the neo-Nazi organisation a prohibited hate group in May after receiving advice from spy agency Asio.<\/p>\n
White Australia\u2019s predecessor, the National Socialist Network, announced it was disbanding when the hate laws were introduced.<\/p>\n
In reality, Burke said, the group had \u201cphoenixed\u201d \u2013 changing its name to White Australia and continuing operations with largely the same members.<\/p>\n
Under the government\u2019s declaration, it is a crime to support, fund or join the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Neo-Nazi group White Australia has lost its bid for temporary immunity from anti-hate laws passed after the Bondi…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-714455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714455","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=714455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}