During 2020, the pandemic has become an opportunity for far right extremists world wide to expand their mobilisation efforts around anti-government conspiracy myths and criticism of government restrictions to control the spread of Covid-19.

In Australia the parliamentary joint committee on Intelligence and Security is to examine extremist movements in Australia, including the rising threat posed by right-wing extremism. The governments move came after demands from Labor through their Home Affairs spokesperson Kristina Keneally for parliament to examine Australia’s preparedness against the increasing threat presented by right-wing extremism. Is there a degree of compliancy from some on the moderate right in Australia when it comes to dealing with the threat posed by far-right terrorism?

As recently as yesterday a NSW man with alleged extreme right-wing views was arrested by police and is now facing terrorism-related charges with police saying he supported and wanted to be involved in "a mass casualty event" which include trying to source bomb making material on the internet. "The male we've arrested has an extreme right-wing ideology and is focused on neo-Nazi, white supremacist and anti-Semitic material," AFP Assistant Commissioner Counter Terrorism Scott Lee said. It is alleged the man used social media as a way to express his support for extremist ideology.

The Christchurch massacre saw an Australian far right terrorist Brenton Tarrant murder 51 innocent people at two mosques in March 2019. The inquiry into the attack has found "(NZ) officials were overly focused on Islamist terrorism", are we falling into the same trap in Australia. That is not to say Islamist terrorism is not real, or we should not concern ourselves with it, but we should not ignore the threat posed by far-right terrorism, whilst concentrating on Islamist or extreme left-wing terrorism.

I found Far Left extremism far, far more vindictive, callous, venomous & socially destructive than any Right I've seen personally !

individual,

Then extreme Left - Greens, Communists/Marxists - have to grab at any mention of 'right extremism' (what is it this time: two 'maybe' examples?) in their feeble attempts to disguise their own ongoing, society-manipulation and anti-freedom efforts, which, as you say, are far more real and dangerous in a world where it is clear that even traditional political conservatism is going backwards.

Ind., Ttbn et al.,

That mongrel who murdered 51 innocent people (i.e. not guilty of any crime), killed more innocent people than all of the Muslim terrorists have done so far in Australia and NZ combined.

I'm not sure how many innocent people the far-left have killed in Australia, Individual, you may have detailed data on that.

No ?

Joe

According to the Australian Institute of Criminology far-right extremism in Australia is less violent and small compared with its Western counterparts. Not surprisingly, Big Tech seems to have censored anything on far left violence, and far right violence stories come from the ABC, Crikey, The Guardian and Wikipedia, all apostles of the Left.

Fortunately we have no serving politicians who could be called far right, but several Green politicians certainly project themselves as far left. Fortunately again, the Greens will never amount to anything but 8% weirdos, and the people who have been called far right in the wider community are hardly ever heard of and are about as dangerous as the Country Womens' Association.

The bloke in New Zealand was just a Muslim-hating nut case - what the apologists for Muslim terrorists call a 'lone wolf'

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see http://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7049415/asios-work-should-be-known-to-australians-dutton/ 10th December 2020

"ASIO'S WORK SHOULD BE KNOWN TO AUSTRALIANS [SAYS] HOME AFFAIRS MINISTER PETER DUTTON"

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton said his request for an inquiry into EXTREMISM should help the public become better acquainted with the work of Australia's secret intelligence agencies.

ASIO was "an amazing organisation", he said a day after instigating a parliamentary inquiry into EXTREMIST ORGANISATIONS THAT MAY NOT CURRENTLY BE ON THE GOVERNMENT'S TERRORIST WATCHLIST, how they communicate and recruit new members.

"It's important for people to be properly informed," Mr Dutton told Sky News. He accused federal Labor of "speaking from a base of ignorance at the moment in relation to what's actually happening by way of effort against these extremists. So I think that educative process is important ... others can learn more about what ASIO is doing because they are working day and night."

Labor's Home Affairs spokesperson Senator Kristina Keneally welcomed the inquiry, which Labor had been pushing for so the PARLIAMENT COULD EXAMINE IF FAR RIGHT-WING EXTREMISM was being properly addressed. Australians should know if the government was tracking extremists like the CHRISTCHURCH shooter, she said.

"The fact that the Christchurch shooter was able to become so radicalised here in Australia, was able to, it would appear, engage with right wing extremist groups in this country, and was able to travel overseas to New Zealand and carry out this atrocity, this terrorist attack without Australian agencies being aware, should have been a wake up call when it happened," Senator Keneally said.

She asked why the government had not listed any right-wing extremist groups as proscribed terrorist organisations. Of the 27 terrorist organisations proscribed in Australia, 26 are Islamist and last is the PKK.

"Canada and the United Kingdom have both prescribed right wing extremist groups that have local chapters or affiliations here [in Australia]," Keneally said.

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