Sherryn Groch
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just minutes away from each other in the same suburb.
And so I went out there and locals had told me they had seen some of the Nazis around.
And then Sewell's Nazi group actually filed some paperwork, which had the address of the compound listed.
So I could finally confirm it last month.
I didn't have to do a door knock after all, thank God.
Yeah, so Marty Featherstone, he hadn't really been on our radar before.
He's the son of a wealthy family who run a multi-million dollar trucking business in Melbourne.
They sold that fairly recently and he's become a really wealthy man.
He didn't end up coming back to me and my questions, sadly.
I would have loved to have heard more of his story, but certainly online he calls himself a white nationalist, a proud racist.
He's been out with the NSN marching at recent March for Australia rallies that they helped organise.
He posts some pretty extreme things, including about putting parliaments to the sword and bashing people of colour.
And he says that he can speak out for Sewell's group because he can't be cancelled or fired the way other neo-Nazis in the group have when they've been unmasked.
So when I went back through some of the photos we took, because we actually got a tip in January about where the NSN was holding its final Nazi training session back when they claimed to have disbanded.
And I found him there in the pictures right next to Sewell.
And the interesting thing was that he was wearing the white wristband that denotes long-term membership of the NSN.
And when I spoke to some sources, they told me, oh, yeah, Marty's a proper member.
So that started to kind of join a few dots for me then.
Yeah, so the government banned the NSN and its political offshoot, White Australia, last month under the new extremism crackdown.