Extremism experts and police insiders say far-right radicals pose a growing threat of violence in Australia and will become a greater focus of authorities in the wake of the Christchurch massacre
Mr Erikson denied knowing the alleged perpetrator of the Christchurch attack, and said no one else in the far-right community had heard of him before Friday.Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton stressed on Monday morning, in an interview with the ABC, that Tarrant had spent just 45 days in Australia in the past three years. He said that from the moment he started in his portfolio, security agencies had been discussing the far-right threat.
The majority of terrorist attacks in the United States for instance had been by members of the far-right. Experts took varying views on whether Australian authorities had paid insufficient attention to far-right extremism because they were focused on Islamist extremism. "I would now expect to see a very significant pivot of attention and resources into that area because we are now effectively looking at an accelerated profile in terms of risk and threat in relation to right-wing extremism."
He shared the view that extremists were being emboldened by the less restrained views being pushed in mainstream political discussion.
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