THE DEEMING DILEMMA – THE IPA AND THE NAZIS
Often, we have questions about things that have no answers. Occasionally, when answers are out of our reach, the questions themselves inform us. And that sums up the following collection of facts which have no resolution overall, but taken together the fragments leave us in no doubt where the path of inquiry leads …
Victorian Liberal Party MP Moira Deeming is intent on destroying her former party boss, John Pesutto. Her lawyers have just initiated bankruptcy proceedings against the 54-year-old Hawthorn MP for failing to cough up $2.3m in legal costs incurred after losing a defamation suit against Deeming. On the one hand, her vengeance is understandable, but under the scrutiny of disparate pieces of information, a whole other picture emerges.
MOIRA DEEMING attended a 2023 ‘anti-trans’ women’s rights rally in which ‘pseudo-Nazis’ from the far-right provocateur group, the National Socialist Network (NSN) turned up to play the role of White Knights (no pun intended) and counter the perennially offended alphabet people and fractious Antifa goons who were intent on breaking up the demonstration.
Following the headline grabbing optics generated by their presence, Pesutto’s office issued a 15-page “dossier” that implied Deeming and her supporters “publicly associated with far-right-wing extremist groups, including neo-Nazi activists.” While proper conservatives held solidarity with her over the issue of transgenderism the presence of the NSN tossed a spanner into the political works which ultimately tested the ideological mettle of the Victorian party leader.
Pesutto considered expelling her from the Victorian Liberals, but a party room motion opted instead to suspend her for nine months. The vote carried 19 to 11. Moira was removed from the party room in May 2023 and lost her role as Liberal Party Whip in the Legislative Council. She and two other women sued: the host of the Let Women Speak rally, Kellie-Jay Keen Minshull, who also goes by the name Posie Parker, and ‘women’s only spaces’ activist, Angela Jones.
The three cases were set to be heard simultaneously in September 2024, but in May that year, Pesutto settled with Parker and Jones, issuing a “magnanimous” public apology. The Deeming trial went ahead and in December 2024 the Federal Court ruled in Deeming’s favour, leaving Pesutto with a staggering bill. A motion to allow Deeming to return to the party fold was thereafter defeated by Pesutto’s deciding vote, only for her to be readmitted following the leader’s ousting by the notionally more conservative Brad Battin.
Yet, in politics, nothing is what it seems and beneath the surface of this hubris-riddled drama appears to be a tussle between the moderate and conservative factions. Pesutto had initially shouldered John Roskam out of the preselection running for the Hawthorn candidacy. Now, here it is worth noting that Roskam belongs to the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA).
Founded in 1943, the IPA is a non-profit public policy think tank based in Melbourne. In other words, they are a partisan conservative ‘influencer’ organisation. They retain close political and ideological affinities with the Liberal Party and likeminded organisations. They have funded and created campaigns for anti-Labor candidates (much like Advance Australia) and are keen on impacting Liberal Party policies. Take note of that last function when considering Deeming’s scuffle with the half-stepping Pesutto and his ilk. Because this is where the dazzling questions begin…
The Liberals were trounced at the nation’s federal election and many, mainly conservative and far-rightists, were hoping just for that. The coalition briefly broke apart over policy disputes. They reunited eight days later following negotiations between Nationals’ leader David Littleproud and the new federal Liberal broom, Susan ley.
The elevation of Susan Ley encapsulates all that boggles the Liberals – they simply have no policies, much less, convictions. Everything is about winning, which means drafting policy on what they ‘think’ Australians want to hear, without ever asking us what we want. They get their reading of the electorate by (this happened with one senior Liberal following their defeat) asking AI. This is how divorced from the populace the political class is.
Ley was chosen because she is a woman and all the noise suggested to the out-of-touch Liberal rank and file that, just as Australian needs endless migrants to inflate the economy, politics, and business requires boss girls to get them over the DEI line regardless of whether or not their adherents are in favour of such. Funny then that they chose Ley, who was sidelined initially for being only too happy to dip into the public purse to cover her travel expenses. See, women are as corrupt as men, and if the Bible is to be believed, much more so.
To that end, the Nationals retained a modicum of (undeserved) distinction following the federal election, but their Liberal counterparts disintegrated like a jelly frisbee. The fact that Australians rejected Peter Dutton was no surprise at all: the man looks like Lurch from The Addams Family and has the personality of a boiled egg. The stupidity of the Australian voter becomes all too clear when you realise the main reason they pushed votes Labor’s way was because they found Albanese more ‘personable’ than Dutton.
But it is the Liberals identity crisis and abandonment of what many foolishly regard as core conservative principles that really earned them opprobrium.
The Coalition's policy on Net Zero and related energy transmissions running up to the Australian federal election was confusing and internally inconsistent. That is one area their constituency proved unshakeable as demonstrated by the comparative favour received by the Nationals. A movement arose in which, like hardline conservatives in America, those on the Right could no longer tolerate the compromising and watering down of policies. Once the go-to party for disaffected conservatives, they also turned on Liberal lickspittle satellite Pauline Hanson and her One Nation, as she has proven nothing but a parliament reptile.
Certain minor parties stole from both the Australia First Party and the ‘America First’ movement of MAGA by umbrellaing under the ‘Australia First Alliance’ only for themselves to flop like a mullet on a dinghy. One thing they all held in common was a desire, articulated heatedly online by the broad stream of the Satellite Right, to decimate the Liberals and teach them a lesson.
One of those ‘far-right’ groups that craved the devastation of the Liberals was the NSN. The fact they cared either way is down to their fundamental lack of political insight and the belief that they can somehow glom on to a ‘conservative’ quarry to lead them to glorious victory. This is a mindset that has repeated over the decades and there seems no likelihood of those subscribing to showboat Nazism ever changing. How can they? They are only a political instrument in the reverse circumstances: when the conservatives use them for what they want.
Following their exploitation of the 2023 Let Women Speak rally, the NSN patted itself on the back for screwing with the Liberals. That they did. Moira Deeming claims their presence to have been completely random. But Deeming is a member of the IPA. Should that matter? Let us investigate. But first … The NSN have developed a penchant for getting into legal hassles. Sometimes they are harshly treated by the laws for token things, while at others they evade prosecution for more blatant stunts. Take for instance their activities prior to the election.
On May 1, NSN’s influencer-in-chief Joel Davis, who has past connections to American Zionist groups and a shady past that included involvement with Antifa, paraded at a Melbourne polling booth with three other members, some of whom were dressed as orthodox Jews. They posed as Liberals touting their support for Jews. That was a breach of the Australian Electoral Act, but no penalty was forthcoming despite the media claiming the police were investigating. They also posted fake Labor flyers, another serious contravention of the Act. Again, no sort of legal ramifications.
Whether this is because of anything ‘hinky’ is anyone’s guess, but in the 1980s, ASIO and the corrupt NSW Special Branch worked overtime manufacturing false charges and extracting convictions against members of Australian National Action, an earnest Australian Nationalist organisation – in fact, its modern incarnation.
In other words, when their political masters ordered NA shut down at any cost, they did so. It appears that the political will does not yet exist to outright proscribe them. Why not? To whom are they useful? And, just when the NSN appears spent, and younger folks are finally questioning their ‘racket,’ the Nazi imitators do something else to gain publicity. They are aided by the online ulterior-right publication The Noticer, which publicises their every move as if they were a bona fide political organisation.
Earlier this year, sources close to that Liberal Party dirty operations wizard John MacGowan heard him admit over drinks to running The Noticer and boasted of his intentions to fund their ‘political aspirations,’ or in other words, help them both financially and technically to establish their ‘White Australia Party.’ MacGowan, like Sherlock Holmes’s nemesis Professor Moriarty is ‘as famous as he is little known.’
MacGowan has appeared on Fred Pawle’s YouTube channel. This author revealed both MacGowan’s ownership of The Noticer and the advance of Fred Pawle in previous Substacks. Fred Pawle is a former IPA employee, married to Bella d’Abrera, the Director of the IPA’s Foundations of Western Civilisation Program. She is the author of a children’s book as well as The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism 1484-1515. Fred Pawle has written for The Noticer. But he has contributed to an eclectic list of publications including, just recently, the ultra-liberal Rolling Stone. RS is as woke as they come but they are happy to print Pawle’s work. Pawle has railed against ‘woke.’ Neither RS nor any of those journals he submits to would ever publish this author, and yet, in the minds of those on the Left, how far apart are we really? It seems … incongruous.
The IPA engages, even if it is simply at a superficial level, with Frank Salter’s British Australian Community, which has its own online youth advocate in the unlikely name of John Lawson and his National Observer. Thomas Sewell shared a notice about a BAC meeting on his Telegram channel. The BAC and the NO both accepted grants from Victoria’s English-Speaking Union, along with Matt Grant’s Australian Natives Association (which might explain why he shuns Nationalists and prefers the Red Ensign over the Southern Cross flag).
This ‘bloc’ now stands adjacent to Nationalists and, amazingly, includes the National Socialist Network, which, reverts to Thomas Sewell’s European Australia Movement (EAM) when they need a broader ‘Australian’ guise. So, here we have the auspices of the IPA well established with this disparate confederation. The general litter of the Satellite Right often meets at the Jubilee Room of NSW Parliament House where, at a cost of $700 per hour, Western Heritage Australia hosts the ‘Round Table Forum’ for mostly conservative political spares with Christian values.
On Tuesday May 27, Thomas Sewell was reportedly in Sydney to attend the farewell for Alex Annenkov. Joel Davis and members of the NSN appeared to have travelled with him. We cannot say if they attended Annenkov’s gathering, but they all arrived at the same time. Davis, his NSN subordinates, and (we are told) the former ‘fuehrer’ of the Antipodean Resistance all paid $15 a head to attend the Round Table Forum, which hosted the IPA’s Bella d’Abrera, Frank Salter and Dr Luke Torisi.
Joel Davis stood up for Question Time to ask a pseudo intellectual question that had zero substance and amounted to a hammer-head suggestion that Australia embraces ‘historic racism’ and imperialism regardless of the fact none of these things characterised Australian Nationalism ever. Why was he there anyway? Why fork out fifteen bucks to stand up for two minutes at a wind-sucking affair like that and not even tick off these stuffed shirts for being little more than mantle ornaments? What possible interest could the IPA and Frank Salter hold for these galahs?
One could say that it was happenstance, and the NSN ‘decided’ to turn up. But why there? For that? Western Heritage Australia, the IPA, BAC, the whole lot of them support Zionism. Why is it they continually link, even if it is at degrees of separation, to the IPA? As we said at the beginning of this piece, we cannot answer any of these questions. Perhaps we will find out more, or perhaps whoever is behind the curtain will shut it down. Who knows?
What is interesting is that, following all their legal troubles, the NSN decided to head out to Preston’s Northland Shopping Centre where, on May 22, two “rival gangs” attacked one another in broad daylight, with at least one wielding a machete. Following the incident, the Victorian Labor Government set about trying to look like they are ‘doing something’ about the entrenched crime their policies engender and swiftly banned the sale of machetes. Those who need to purchase them for legitimate purposes will be prohibited from doing so pending the legislation taking effect in September. Thus, the NSN gathered in the small hours of the morning to film themselves chanting “White Man Fight Back” while they unfurled a banner that read “BAN NIGGERS NOT MACHETES.”
Old school White Nationalist websites like Stormfront barred the ‘N’ word, not due to political correctness, but because the moderators believed it made Whites look cretinous. The edgelords of NSN appear once again willing to transgress anti-discrimination laws in a bid for publicity, and so close to having shared the dusty air with their fusty counterparts from the reactionary Western Heritage Australia. Will there be prosecutions? That is another question we can ask but shed no light on.
But why risk it? And, while we are at it, a White man took down the machete wielding bandit at the time of the melee. White men DO fight back…
So, we return to Moira Deeming who is hellbent on financially crushing Pesutto. We shed no tears for him, and we oppose trans-terrorism, but outside of the ‘unifying issues’ in which these irritants receive a pass, what is going on? Are the NSN the Liberal right’s weapon against the centre? That is just another question to which we expect no answer but must engage our own faculty for deductive reasoning. Because with these pieces of the puzzle it looks like Pesutto may have had a point. █