Christchurch massacre sparks calls for hate crimes database
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.
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