Stanton said restoring faith and trust in institutions, including parliament and the media, was vital in combating extremism.
In 2020, the Security Intelligence Organization of Australia revealed that violent far-right extremism accounted for 40% of counter-terrorism cases, an increase of 10 to 15% before 2016.
Gallows was seen at an anti-government rally in Melbourne last year.
Faced with the investigation, investigative journalist Nick McKenzie, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, who infiltrated the far-right National Socialist Network, said one of the main concerns of law enforcement was the increase in the number of children being radicalized.
“NSN is dedicated to recruiting young and impressive Victorians and is having some success in doing so,” McKenzie said.
“Minors are very, very difficult for the police and other authorities, but they present an opportunity for an early ban. It’s a job for the school, the parents and not just the security agencies … Maybe not. they say publicly right now, but Victorian police are overwhelmed by Victoria’s level of threatening language on the Internet, especially young Victorians.
“It is a fact that the police are prioritizing threats against politicians, which you already know are growing, but it means that there is a large cohort of young people who behave online or make threats that do not cross a clear legal or police line. , but which they still indicate are on the path of radicalization ”.
McKenzie said children up to the age of 10 were radicalizing and that eradication programs in prisons and schools were not working. He said they were seen as a “joke to be studied and exploited” by the NSN, which he described as “disorderly organized”.
“The fact that they are, if I may use the term, idiots doesn’t make them any less dangerous,” he said.
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The Victorian Greens secured the support of the Andrews government for a parliamentary inquiry into the rise of far-right extremism following investigations by The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald and pandemic restraint protests that they were infiltrated by the neo-Nazis.
He will report to parliament in August, and the government will have six months to respond.
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