I think it may be better not to get sidetracked on:

- Politicians who are nowhere near being Extremist Terrorist leaders or cell members

- and avoid Spreading discussion to non-Extremist subjects, like someone who tried to extend the argument to:

"Economic hardship caused by bureaucrats, injustice, social isolation, drink driving, environmental poisoning etc etc. all cause & have caused many deaths."

Yes so-called right-wing extremism is rising - from bugger-all to SFA.

Its an issue but not even close to the major issue in regards to terrorism. We all know what the major terrorist threat in Australia is - it starts with 'I' and ends in 'slam'.

This whole right-wing extremist meme is merely a mechanism to divert attention from the main game.

Equally, if you're gunna call someone right-wing, perhaps you ought to define 'right'. The Christchurch shooter (he doesn't deserve to be named) described himself as an eco-fascist.
Eco= ecology = environmentalist = left. And fascism was a left wing ideology. So not a right-wing extremist, a left wing nationalist extremist.

That's assuming you need to label him. You could also just as easily label him a nutcase without the need to bring politics into it. But - never let a crisis go to waste.

Hi Pete,

The danger presented by some politicians like Hanson is the way they may not directly condone terrorism, and I certainly don't believe Hanson does, but inadvertently through a degree of "hate speak" she and others send messages of encouragement to extremists, and they will attract such people to their fringes. That is a separate issue involving free speech etc. What I am asking here is whilst we have correctly identified Islamic terrorism as a major concern, are we with a preoccupation for such, underscoring and failing to identify other forms of extremism. I must say Australia has been most effective in combating Islamic terrorism. However, there is some evidence that we have been lax when it comes to other forms of terrorism, the Christchurch inquiry in NZ, found NZ authorities had been blindsided somewhat when it came to dealing with non-Islamic terrorism, Australia seems to be guilty as well. Added to that is the identification by allied countries, Britain and Canada for two, of named dangerous extremist non-Islamic groups within their boarders, groups that are shown to have affiliates in Australia.

If this Forum is to be any gauge of public opinion you can see some, most likely for politically biased reasons, will not take what is termed right wing extremism seriously. Some posters are content to deflect to outrage with the "left", or simply dismiss it, as in the way mhaze said; "Yes so-called right-wing extremism is rising - from bugger-all to SFA." While we have people with that attitude extremism can only grow. Hopefully this parliamentary inquiry will shed some light on the problem.

It's good to see posters rebutting uninformed, semi-literate bigots and Green extremists like Number 1405, who get all their information from leftist media and Big Tech.

Put 'left wing extremists in Australia' into Google and you will be smacked in the eye with information on RIGHT wing extremism on the first page - which is as far as most people look. The real extremists, Google, Twitter, Facebook, Wikipedia, the Greens and the dog's body ABC, all censor the truths about the Left which has infiltrated every aspect of our lives, including once conservative political parties like the Australian Liberal Party, the UK Conservative Party, and the US Republican Party; and, obviously, the United Nations, which is aiming at being a world government, bolstered by the Great Reset extreme leftists and the Trilateral Committee since the 1970s. It's only with the help of the China virus and the climate change swindle, with all the fear mongering and loss of freedoms that have become common, that they have come out into the open, via the German Dr. No-like creature Klaus Schwab. Massive threats from the Left are now out in the open. They are out in the open because most of us have shown little or no resistance. The Leftist hyenas can smell our indifference to the coming loss of democracy and freedoms, and they are coming to finish us off. And, we don't have sufficient politicians of the calibre needed to resist; most of them, from the PM down, will will do what is necessary to keep themselves above the rest of us.

"The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world". (Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum).

This 82 year old wannabe dictator is a private private citizen, not elected by anyone to make any decisions for the rest of. There are a lot more like him, who need rooting out and exposing as the real extremists and real threats to democracy

The best thing that Sky News can come up with today about our wet Prime Minister that he is confident that Australia can meet its Paris targets! This from a man who is PM only because he pretended to be different from Labor on climate hysteria.