Right Wing terrorism takes up 35% of ASIO's time, page-22

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Benjamin Millar

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ASIO's far-right extremism case load surges from 10-15% up to 30-40% in 4 years, yet we get...

A major component of far-right social media recruitment is using mainstream media narratives to fuel discontent...

This isn't speculative, it's what the research has shown thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/…

Murdoch media fuels far-right recruitmentA world-first study by Victorian academics shows inflammatory media reports – on race and Safe Schools – acted as a dog whistle to extremists seeking ‘permission’.https://thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2019/08/10/murdoch-media-fuels-far-right-recruitment/15653592008581

We know the Australian white supremacist mass murderer produced a manifesto with many of the same race hate talking points with which certain of our periodicals are awash

We know the Australian white supremacist mass murderer who killed 51 people in cold blood, to deter further immigration, is considered by one of our leading columnists to be "in some frightening ways rational".

We know these remain the same race hate talking points of the same columnist in the same periodicals.

We know the far-right is particularly keen to recruit ex-service folk and we know there are perhaps certain synergies within such ranks.

We know etc etc etc

Do you have to officially sign up to the same Great Replacement conspiracy theory cited by the Australian white supremacist terrorist in his manifesto to be invited onto Sky News, or is it just a bonus?

It would be misleading to suggest things haven't changed in the Australian media landscape in the 18 months since the Christchurch mosques massacre.

The situation is demonstrably worse today.

MaRkEtPlAcE oF iDeAs and everything, but it's increasingly difficult to tell apart House of Murdoch and our furthest far-right fringe.

Whether it is Sky News and The Unshackled boyz sharing guests...

... the Andrew and Avi platonic bromance...

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...Lauren "Great Replacement" Southern getting a regular Sky gig, Adam signal-boosting Avi and Andrew going full blown race hate... there's barely even a blurred line anymore, let alone a line in the sand.

Anyway, it's weird! Or it should be!

Like, imagine being outflanked on taking responsibility for bigotry and hate speech via your platform by *Facebook*.

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