A global counter-extremist organization has urged for closer monitoring of Australian white supremacists and neo-Nazis who are establishing crowdfunding campaigns and combat clubs to train members in combat. The Counter Extremism Project (CEP) has highlighted that some Australian extremists have become influential figures in the online neo-Nazi community and may use combat sports and self-defense clubs as a means to evade police attention.
Australia n white supremacists and neo-Nazis who are creating crowdfunding campaigns and “active clubs” to train members in combat must be monitored more closely, a prominent global counter-extremist organisation has told a Senate inquiry.
The Senate’s legal and constitutional affairs references committee began an inquiry into rightwing extremist movements in Australia late last year. Due to report by December, the committee was tasked with investigating the threat posed by extremist movements, the motivations and capacity for violence of such individuals, links with international movements, and online promotion of extremism.
Pearse was unhappy that some of the committee’s terms “concern activities involving no violence” and include references “where the term ‘right wing’ is open to broad, subjective interpretation”. CEP raised concerns that active clubs, which can involve activities like combat sports training or placement of extremist stickers or graffiti, have also sought “to train operational and logistical capacities like scouting target locations and avoiding law enforcement”.
“Australian authorities should closely monitor the potential emergence of active club groups in the country and their transnational connections, as these could potentially lead to an increase in violent acts in the country.”
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