Alt-right extremists are not being monitored effectively, former deputy police commissioner says
"Most police forces simply do not collect or differentiate this type of offence, they do not identify it as a unique offence. An assault is an assault."
And Mr Shorten said Mr Kaldas' idea made perfect sense which may not even require formal legislation to put in place. A centralised database and a common definition of hate crimes across all jurisdictions would help deal with the growing threat posed by right-wing extremists."It needs to be accessible and we would need a common definition of hate crime. We know these people want to find loopholes so they can escape scrutiny so we have to make sure it works.
Deakin University Professor Greg Barton said intelligence agencies were acutely aware of the threat, and that right-wing extremists were responsible for every fatal terrorist attack in the US last year - more than 50 deaths. "What we do know is that he was posting on Facebook and Twitter and being a nuisance, but the problem is that there's thousands of guys posting similar things.
"We have eight police forces in Australia, and have not managed this. If you cannot measure it, you cannot deal with it effectively," he wrote.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Vic right wing extremists on watchlist - 9NewsDozens of right wing extremists are on terror watchlists, Victorian Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton says after the Christchurch attack.
Read more »
Right-wing extremists a 'primary focus' for NSW anti-terror squadsThe NSW Police Commissioner says he is looking at building the capacity of the anti-terrorism squad focused on right-wing extremists in the wake of yesterday's Christchurch shooting.
Read more »
Vic right wing extremists on watchlist - 9NewsDozens of right wing extremists are on terror watchlists, Victorian Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton says after the Christchurch attack.
Read more »
The disturbing reason authorities can't detect dangerous right-wing extremists onlineAuthorities struggle with identifying right-wing extremist nobodies before they turn to violence in part because it's difficult to pick up a clear signal in the noise of our toxic national conversation.
Read more »
'Dozens' of right-wing extremists on Victorian terror watchlistDozens of right wing extremists are on terror watchlists, Victorian Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton says after the Christchurch attack.
Read more »
'Eclectic taste in music': Judge told ringleader of Philippines plot not 'stereotypical' Islamic extremistA Melbourne court is told a preacher, who led a failed plot to sail to the Philippines to join a militant group, doesn't fit the profile of an Islamic extremist partly because of his eclectic taste in music.
Read more »
Society must deny extremist goals to ‘inflame civilisations against each other’: Kenny | Sky News AustraliaSky News host Chris Kenny says that the goal of extremists is to ‘inflame civilisations against each other’, but citizens in liberal democracies have a duty to ‘deny them this outcome’.\n\nMr Kenny says extremists use tools like online forums, hateful inspiration, calls to arms and a lust for infamy, but that ‘we need always to combat these ideologies’. \n\nMr Kenny says after Friday’s mosque massacre in Christchurch, that people ‘must renounce division, refuse to wilfully spread blame, repudiate any suggestion of a clash of civilisations and redouble our efforts to combat extremism and bigotry in all its forms.’
Read more »
Morrison pushes back against IS extremist's pleaPrime Minister Scott Morrison insists he will not put Australians at danger by helping home-grown Islamic State terrorists return to the country.
Read more »
PM pushes back against IS extremist's plea - 9NewsScott Morrison has declared he will not put any Australians at risk by helping home-grown extremists who want to come home from the Middle East. 9News
Read more »