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The Q Society of Australia was a far-right, homophobic and Islamophobic organisation that opposed Muslim immigration and the presence of Muslims in Australian society. Founded in 2010, Q Society referred to itself as "Australia's leading Islam-critical organisation" and stated that its purpose was to fight against the "Islamisation of Australia".
Since around 2015 (when far-right groups stoked protests against the building of a mosque in Bendigo [14]), the threat from far-right violent extremist groups has been increasing. Around 30–40% of ASIO's counter-terrorism work involved far-right individuals and groups in late 2020, an increase of 10–15% on the years before 2016. Although ...
The Wieambilla shootings was a religiously motivated terrorist attack in Australia on 12 December 2022. It involved the killing of police constables Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and neighbour Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, a locality in Queensland.
Roughly 40 members of the Victorian chapter of the far-right National Socialist Network hold a flash rally, where they marched from Melbourne's Fed Square to Flinders Street Station, clad in all black and carrying a large "Mass Deportations Now" banner. One person was "arrested at the scene and was interviewed for grossly offensive public ...
The True Blue Crew (TBC) is an Australian far-right extremist group. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Members and supporters have been linked to right-wing terrorism and vigilantism , and members have been arrested with weapons and on terrorism-related charges.
[14] [4] The UPF split from Reclaim Australia around May 2015. [14] In the UPF, Sewell was the second in command of Blair Cottrell, the founder of the group. [14] [4] In late 2017, he and Cottrell founded the Lads Society, a now-defunct men's only far-right, white nationalist group that branded itself as a fitness group.
The United Patriots Front (UPF) was an Australian far-right extremist group [1] that opposed immigration, multiculturalism and the religion of Islam. Formed in 2015, the group has been largely dormant since their Facebook page was deleted following the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings .
Publication of the allegations, based on leaked documents, by the ABC lead in 2019 to the Australian Federal Police raiding the ABC's Ultimo offices (as well as News Corp journalist Annika Smethurst's home, due to her reporting on another leaked plan to allow the ASD to spy on Australian citizens). Media organisations feared the raids posed a ...