Right-wing extremism has a long history in Australia, and support is surging

In 1941, members in Western Australia were found in possession of plans to assassinate prominent Australians, sabotage vulnerable areas, and drafts of speeches welcoming the Japanese in the event of an invasion.

There was also the formation of the Australia Nationalist Socialist Party — a neo-Nazi party which struggled to attract or retain recruits. Its leaders were found in possession of explosives, detonators, and other weapons, and jailed for unlawful possession in 1964. The group, which adopted the Eureka flag and exploited Henry Lawson's writings, gained some support given their deliberate exploitation of white Australian symbols and anti-communist attitudes.Towards 1976, there were other extreme right groups who did not engage with the democratic process, instead seeking to use violence to effect change. Among them, ASIO monitored Safari 8, the Legion of the Frontiersmen of the Commonwealth, and the Australian Youth Coalition.

rightwing, and leftwing extremism exists and making laws that will not be enforceable or even interpretable but let's see how that works out for you. 🤣

The ABC hates Australia.

What utter garbage. Anyone who even questions the left ideology is now deemed a right wing extremist. Time to stop wasting our taxpayer funds on the on ABC

Newtons law is simple, every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Since AustralianLabor believes in science this should be easy to understand. The more one side pushes left, the harder the right push too. Stay in the middle billshortenmp ScottMorrisonMP PaulineHansonOz

What you call extremism, we call loving our country and patriotism! Our fathers & grandfathers fought for this great country & we want to keep it great!

Long May it reign over us ! God save the Right ! ( with apologies to Her Maj)

Concern about open boarders with unfettered access for all isn’t right wing extremism, it’s called security. Pretty sure if a stranger walked into your office at some point you would ask who they are, what they want, why they are there, afterwhich you may or may not allow to stay

You people are full of it. According to you, anyone who has no time for the Greens and doesn't trust Labor half the time is right wing. Stop labelling good people with your agendas.

Anything that doesn't go with the agenda your propaganda channel pushes you'd class as right wing

This is laughable.. everyone with a differing opinion is labeled with an “ism” ...

Really? I don't know one person who's considered right wing and never have. I know a lot of bogans and they mainly vote labor because libs are for rich folk

Lefties have a history of misidentifying their own when it comes to extremism. Adolf Hitler being far right the biggest lefty fraud in history. A man that emerged from German Socialist Workers Union, union members his brown shirts to round up Jews, there was no right in him.

Utter rubbish.

'support is surging' in this context means 'we are broadening the definition'

ABC has a long history of left wing extremism. Thankfully, support is declining.

Anyone who believes in private property and personal accountability is a right-wing extremist in 2019.

Unfortunately the ABC has gone so far Left that they portray anyone who is right of Karl Marx as a right wing extremist 🙄

Negative. You just move the definition. Typical Alinsky crap.

ABC flailing

Being proud of where you come from is now called right wing extremism 🙄🙄🙄

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Where do they come up with this rubbish?

This is certainly an opinion piece, no facts brought to the table at all to support the headline

The overton window has shifted to the point where anything right of centre is considered extreme. Take something simple and innocuous like 'I love my country' for example, say it out loud to yourself...sound extreme doesn't it.

Yeah....Since you expanded the definition to include everyone who disagrees with you.

There was bugger all at their latest rally in Sydney. Ignorance influenced by right wing media outlets is surging.

Oh please take your divisive garbage and sell it elsewhere please

Where is the 'love thy neighbour'?

I’m sorry but the claim he was right wing seems a consistent with his manifesto?

Absolute proof the left are messed up. HYPOCRITES The FAKENEWS attacks on the right is about shutting down political opposition and debate to bring in the NWO

'Any white person that wants to exist is a far right terrorist'

Proof the Left hate each other.

The left absolutely hate each other. Look what they did to Jenner at first it was what a 'great help to our cause' as soon as the admission was made he was Republican the LGBT community disowned him in an instant.

CUCKCITY It's FAKENEWS any kind of valid questions concerning muslim immigration makes you a hard right militant. Meanwhile the leftwing government in NY is auditing anybody trying to escape Cuomos government. The left have even made NY 🗽 SUCK!

Thats what happens when the pendulum leans to far to the left with PC and CC shoved down our throats. It won't hurt the left to get a pineapple shoved up their.. where the sun don't shine, now and again..... might install a bit of common sense in them......

FakeNews ABC. This is a biased opinion piece that serves to spread disinformation and to create more division. EnemyofthePeople

Oh you mean like funding leftie egg boy... yes paying for violence... And antifa, another leftie funded violent rent a crowd who are well known for carrying weapons and threatening people.... You have become a joke their abc... you sure as heck aren't mine any more

This is a very biased piece of writing with history used in a manner to proved its biased conclusion. Again it shows ABC being anti Australian. There is no country in world so critical & biased against Australia than the Government funded ABC.

You, ABC, are doing everything in your power to help right-wing extremism grow.

Support does seem to surge when your dramatically broaden the definition. Apparently subscribing to pewdiepie makes me a right wing extremist.

Now do Islamic extremism 👍🏻

Racism has been brewed in this country since the gold rush, with white prospectors lynching chinese prospectors. The govts back then even charged chinese migrants fees just for being here and just for being chinese. Its going to take generations to overcome the ingrained racism

So getting a tattoo of the southern cross makes you an extremist

Except that it doesn't. What a load of confected bollocks. How much do you have to hate Australia to write crap like this?

Zero right wing extremist attacks have occurred on Australian soil, ZERO. Stop trying to make something out of nothing. A crazed individual was responsible for the CHCH massacre, no one else

Islamic extremism has a long history, too: back to at least 1915. Guess which has killed more?

Does Left wing extremism exist? Other than the ABC of course.

Shut up (((abc)))

Can't people have an unpopular opinion? Let people think what they like without scorn.

Leftists caught out been racist jimjefferies “If a dingo ate a Muslim baby it would throw it up”. OzraeliAvi caught it on camera being interviewed in a setup that’s about to back fire on the leftard. Stick lefties behind the curtains. RealMarkLatham MarkDice chriskkenny

bias opinion as usual by the

The further down the left you sit, the more 'extreme right' everyone else looks. This(s)hitpeice is a great illustration of that, at least, if not also KristyCampion s rampaging case of Academia Confirmation Bias.

ABC you need to shut up about this especially as an opinion thing ...

Don't associate the southern Cross with right wing groups thanx

Hahh right wing extremism - anyone who doesent doesent comply with Marxist doctorine

With free advertising like this, no wonder. Thanks Auntie.

Just rocking up to say I think that's a load of old bollocks. Cheers

Says it right there..... Opinion, not News.

A picture of the southern cross! Really how long can the white hate propaganda go on! It’s racist.

Yes, because real Australians who love this country, want to protect it, not the fakers that come here for the benefits and to complain it isn't like the shithole they came from.

Frankly, the fascist left calling people who disagree with them, Nazis, deplatforming, censoring and otherwise shouting them down has created this monster. The ABC is a large part of it. Sensible debate is dead and certain opinions are deemed immoral. It's only getting worse too.

what a load of OXEN SHITZEN,

Islamic Extremism has killed more people in Modern Australia than Right-Wing Extremism.

Nonsense: It's no wonder journalism is dying.

I considered myself a lefty but did not hate anyone on the right. Once you may not have agreed with someone but you respected their right to an opinion. Now I’m embarrassed to be left or right because all either side wants to do is bully and shame others into being quiet.

So does the Left Wing Extremism. Now your being balanced

I don't know about the situation in Australia, but in the USA white supremacists & white nationalists aren't really conservative & they're small in number & politically impotent. Meanwhile, the MSM mostly ignores the violence & property damage wreaked by Antifa in USA and Europe

Absolute rubbish! How typically ABC!

Well the terrorist wasn’t right wing so I’d rather worry about the left extremists .

Well he actually identified himself as a lefty.. So let's use your own words shall we..Left-wing extremism has a long history in Australia, and support is surging..

It's surging against far Left ideology and terrorism. The UK and France have fallen, we will not.

What a load of bollocks

Not a single opinion piece on Antifa

Groan

It's only an opinion and seeing it's your opinion it means jackdiddly

AS USUAL YOUR OPINION IS WRONG & BIASED

I don’t know why the ABC is revelling in misery. 99.9% of Australians couldn’t give a bugger, where you come from. The sooner you stop dog whistling the better. You are the worst of the lot.

Right Wing groups are anti-democracy... Does this make the united nations right wing?

Well done, ABC. Your conduct this week has been horrible, a new low. Especially, because when the week started, I thought you were broadcasting quite responsibly and genuinely. Stop dancing around it. Put your money where your mouth is and say what you really mean!

Personally I think the radical left is pushing more and more Australians to the right in their political views. A left wing biased media is also contributing.

So... if you have a southern cross tattoo you must be bad

Australian Broadcasting Communist

Yep brought upon us by the PC brigade, and the do gooders. People just get sick and tired of being left out of the conversation so they rise up, it’s called history people. Those who do not learn from it are doomed to suffer its consequences.

Right-wing extremism has a long history worldwide not just Australia. It's always existed & always will, just like communists, marxists & fascists. We pay over a billion dollars annually for these revelations?

I believe it was politely called ‘the white Australia policy’ until fairly recently.

You’re part of the problem with all the division & virtue signalling crap you create too. 🙄 Hypocrites media

Being a proud Australian, and putting Australia first, does not mean you are right wing extremist. The ABC is a well known left wing extremist in its biased ideology

Send them all to Turkey without return ticket. Erdogan said he gives them a free ride home.

Until we get rid of every single criminal politician, replace them with real people, from the real world, this is only going to get worse. This is why I hate voting, our system is corrupt, we are controlled by scumbags, we never get who or what we vote for..

An ABC sponsored opinion? That's about as oxy-moronic as you can get - can anyone recall an ABC 'opinion' that wasn't leaning out a left side window? If you can, give us the ratios of L-R - just for fun.

Right wing 'extremism ' is a by product of left wing 'extremism' and the disappearance of moderate middle ground .

A long history? Try 210 years! Right back to Macarthur’s Rum Rebellion against Gov Bligh!

You should see Nigeria!

An essay that starts off on a bias tone & pulls together history to support that bias.

What absolute Bull💩 from . Surging my butt!

With the exception of Labor’s “White Australia” policy, of course.

Maybe fired up due to the clearly extreme liberal bias in the media.

If you're white and working class and you watch the ABC for long enough, you'll end up a right wing extremist. They're fuelling it. It suits their agenda.

Their ABC’s opinion is not required, incorrect & insulting to the decent, non-violent Australians, who are in the majority!

I blame countless Prime Ministers. Since the Cronulla riots things have turned south. Even to the point where the flag is now weaponised by the right. Time for a lot of people to have a cold shower. We are ALL human.

yes and left wing too? do we talk about leftist history and teach it at school?

So does left-wing extremism

'support is surging' well if our pm supports this business...

FakeNews Govt Propaganda!

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Does the history include being responsible for 84,000 deaths in a year like Islamic Extremism?

So if you have a southern cross tatt must be right wing you ain’t being a patriot who loves ya country really 🤦🏼‍♂️

Noooooooooo please

What about the Muslim hate preacher speaking at all the mosques in Australia.

Lol the 'outcome of a right-wing ideology' brought to you by a gunman who 'disliked conservatism as it was corporatism in disguise' called himself an 'eco-fascist' and whos political views aligned closest with China... WOW WHAT A RIGHT-WING NAZI HITLER 2.0 BLAIR COTTEREL 😂😂😂

“Right Wing Extremism” has always been a part of White Christian Culture, since Man was first starting to be subjugated. It arises when Governments sit on their hands and ignore the Proletariat.

Any body using left or right is inciting divide & hate !

There is no ethos more Far Right than Islam. It is the most terrifying Supremacist Ideology on the planet. Here are 'normal' western Muslims openly advocating for the death penalty for homosexuals & adulterers.

Putting people into groups of left or right is inciting hate . Why are the police not Investigating ?

Extremists are getting into countries with no questions asked. The NZ terrorist is 1 example of a person that should not have been allowed into NZ. But how many times after a terrorist attack do we find out the offender was an extremists?

Never tolerate racism. Always speak out against it.

Nationalist power can flourish in rural Australia.. There’s little centralisation infrestructure to lead the vulnerable away from these ideaologies.

Great article but.... 'the problem lies with the broader Australian community that ignores or accepts' right-wing extremism? That wasn't such problem b4 John Howard. He BROKE bipartisan rule that politicians do NOT play race card. But he won 2001 Tampa election (1/2)

Anyone to the right of bill shorten is a right wing extremist according to the ABC. bias selltheABC

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