Antipodean Group – Introduction
Antipodean Resistance (Known as “AR”) is an Australian neo-Nazi extremist group that was first seen in October 2016. The name “Antipodean” refers to Australia’s geographic location (the Antipodes), underscoring the group’s aim to establish a National Socialist movement in Australia.
AR was founded by young white supremacists who organized via the now-defunct Iron March forum, a notorious international far-right networking site.
In early 2016, a small cluster of Iron March users discussed forming “a new group for younger NatSocs (national socialists), 14-25” that would “take the fight to the enemy”, even suggesting actions like attacking a synagogue to show they were serious.
By October 2016, the group had a name, a logo, and its own sub-forum on Iron March, where a founding member using the alias “Xav” declared AR’s bold catchphrase: “We’re the Hitlers you’ve been waiting for”, which still appears on the website.
Their ideology is a blend of white supremacism, antisemitism, homophobia, and ultra-nationalism. The group explicitly venerates Adolf Hitler and promotes National Socialism (Nazism) as its guiding doctrine.
AR’s propaganda and internal writings reveal a belief that white Australians are in an existential struggle against “enemies”, with Jews singled out as the ultimate nemesis.
In the Nazi worldview AR subscribes to, Jews are blamed for controlling governments, banks, and media, and accused of plotting a “white genocide” by means of immigration and multiculturalism.
AR members routinely refer to this antisemitic conspiracy theory in their rhetoric, portraying Jews as the primary target of their hatred. One AR poster even called to “Legalise the execution of Jews”, illustrating the group’s genocidal mindset.
Australian authorities consider AR a dangerous extremist entity who are willing to use extreme violence.
Known “AR” Symbols & Aesthetics
The group’s logo prominently features a Totenkopf (death’s head skull, as used by Hitler’s SS) wearing an Australian Akubra-style hat, set against a Black Sun design, with a swastika and laurel wreath included.
Members often display the swastika flag, AR’s own flag is blue and white with a black swastika, and they give the Nazi salute in photos.
The slogan “We’re the Hitlers you’ve been waiting for” encapsulates their self-image as a revived Hitler Youth-style vanguard in Australia.
AR primarily recruits young, white Australian men (teens to mid-20s), insisting on physical fitness and fanatic devotion, as a reference to the known movements of 1940 Germany.
The membership is secretive and relatively small, with chapters claimed in most major Australian cities despite an overall headcount likely only in the few members adopt pseudonyms and conceal their faces (often using skull masks or digital blur) in all published images to avoid identification.
Known Affiliations
Antipodean Resistance (AR) is actively connected with a few other groups, all well-known Neo-Nazi divisions with shared tactics and ideologies, most were classified as terror and violence extremist groups by world-wide authorities, and not for nothing.
National Action [UK] - AR admired NA’s tactics and adopted similar militant neo-Nazi strategies.
Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM) [Scandinavia] - AR maintained direct communication and shared ideological alignment, including an interview with NRM’s Finnish branch.
Atomwaffen Division (AWD) [US] - AR and AWD maintained friendly relations, shared propaganda, and aligned in violent activities and ideology.
The Lads Society [Australia] - Many AR members transitioned to the Lads Society, and the groups became so intertwined that they are difficult to separate.
National Socialist Network (NSN) [Australia] - AR’s legacy continued in NSN after a merger with the Lads Society, with key AR figures joining NSN.
Known Cases of Violence By AR
Over the years, Antipodean Resistance (AR) has been involved in different violent incidents and hate crimes.
From vandalized schools, universities, and public spaces with neo-Nazi propaganda, including swastikas and racist slogans, causing fear among Jewish, Asian, and LGBT communities between 2016 to 2019, to a violent confrontation with anti-fascist activists when they were caught putting up homophobic posters in Melbourne in 2017.
AR has also conducted ongoing combat training camps where recruits practiced martial arts and possibly firearms handling, preparing for physical conflict.
In 2019, AR expressed support for the Christchurch Mosque shootings and echoed the shooter’s views, though no direct involvement was confirmed.
Known Members of AR
Antipodean Resistance was founded by Tim Heibach (known as “Xav”) and Jacob Hersant.
Tim was the key organizer, shaped AR’s structure and militant ideology while Jacob, who is active from a young age, became a chief organizer, involved in defacing locations with AR propaganda and later recruiting for AR’s Victoria branch.
Other early contributors include “Kehlsteinhaus” and Nathaniel Anderson, who handled propaganda and graphic design.
The group operated as a decentralized youth network, using small, autonomous cells across Australia.
While there was no public leader, internal leadership was evident through those managing the website and training camps. In 2019, many AR members transitioned to the National Socialist Network (NSN) under Tom Sewell, who became a key figure in the broader neo-Nazi scene.
Exposing New Member of AR
Over the years, a few of the AR members were exposed, no one was identified as the owner of the official website “antipodean-resistance.com”.
So, I took the initiative and started to investigate. In this research, using OSINT techniques and methodologies of intelligence collection and verifications, I present the individual behind the official website of the organization, with cross-references that allegedly validates his interests in a way that frame him as indeed one of the individuals in AR.
First, the domain
Current WHOIS records aren’t the solution, as all are restricted for privacy, so I started to figure out “what general stuff” I know about the domain?
It’s an official website of a Neo-Nazi fascist group based in Australia. The suspected individual must be Australian at least, 100% sure a white person, probably, and statistically male. That’s a start.
The official website of “antipodean-resistance” shares the same IP address with 5 other domains, no Cloudflare or any other protection usage, meaning the IP address I’m seeing, is indeed the IP address of the website.
All the websites are with the same clear agenda of white-supremacist and Neo-Nazism. IP Address is 23[.]184[.]48[.]187
[*] renegadetribune[.]com →
[*] white-power[.]org →
[*] wearswar[.]com →
[*] nsdapao[.]org →
[*] nvu[.]info →
There is a similar agenda against child abusers appears in the official website of “antipodean-resistance” and one of the other domains hosted with the same IP address, “nvu.info”. That is a pattern.
When Past and Present Come Together
Since current WHOIS records aren’t yielding results, let’s check past records.
Though few registrations have been made within this domain, we do know that AR was established at the end of 2016, so the focus should be around the one or two years afterwards.
99% of the data wasn’t good enough, until I found one specific result that contained an email address, a full name, phone number ,and a country - Australia. Bingo!
The email address belongs to a person named Paul Kimbell, an Australian citizen, white male, just as assumption.
A phone number also found, with the country code of Australia, belongs to Paul as well.
Connecting The Dots
Australianlibertyalliance[.]info: website for the Australian Liberty Alliance, a minor right-wing to far-right political party in Australia that was briefly known as the “Yellow Vest Australia”.
Sustainabletimbertasmania[.]info: a Tasmanian Government Business Enterprise responsible for sustainably managing public production forests. Paul is from Geilston Bay, Tasmania, Australia.
Tarkineaction[.]org: a website dedicated to supporting those who want action against the destruction of Takayna (Australia’s largest cool-temperate rainforest, located in northwest Tasmania). Australia's rainforests are a known secret training camp for members of Antipodean Resistance.
When viewing Paul associated profiles, some of them, for example his Flickr account, backed the claim about his agenda of forests saving, exactly as the shown agenda in some of the domains he registered and as pictures shown in the official website of AR, showing Australian forests and the squad training camps.
In the picture: Paul’s Flickr account, with the agenda of defending forests, exactly as the agenda of the domain he registered.
In the picture: Pictures used on the official website of AR, containing known forests in Australia
Investigation Continues
The phone number that was found in association with Paul and the official domain of AR led to a Facebook profile called “Aves Animalia”, supposedly with almost no data, but there are two likes by this account.
The first is for a Facebook page called “Radical Art In Nature”, and the second for another Facebook page called “Graffiti Research Lab”, both of them claims of Graffiti as a mean to an end, exactly as AR does in now days for delivering a message.
Also, another interesting fact, one of the friends of the Facebook page “Aves Animalia” is Paul himself.
In the picture: Aves Animalia Facebook page, directly associated with the phone number found in the WHOIS records
A Complete Intelligence Profile
Profiling the person behind the website reveals contact methods and his social accounts, a thing that may assist to the authorities and other intelligence agencies to engage with him when needed.
For this purpose and to maintain his privacy, all PIIs (personal identification information) and associated online accounts are blurred.
