8chan/8kun QResearch AUSTRALIA Posts (3)
#15042136 at 2021-11-20 09:04:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #19 - THE ONLY WAY IS THE MILITARY Edition
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Associate Professor Debra Smith from Victoria University, who specialises in extremist politics, said the effect of the mainstreaming of fringe politics was more concerning than seats in Parliament.
"The concern is around the approach to undermine trust in political systems, and essentially trying to actually critique the very system of democracy rather than work with it," she said.
"If they do get elected then they actually have to work with the system - and in a way that moderates the protest - but what we're seeing is this whipping up of this so-called 'end day' that we all have to stand up against. This doomsday rhetoric is existent through all extremist movements over history."
Mr Jonas' political bid comes a month after his fiancee Ms Smit announced her organisation no longer had plans to run as a political party and would throw its support behind Palmer's United Australia Party instead.
Ms Smit has an international following, recently appearing on prominent far-right American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' online show and released an "SOS" video where she called for countries to put economic pressure on Australia for its lockdown measures.
In a video explaining her decision last month to merge Reignite Democracy Australia with Mr Palmer's party, Ms Smit said Mr Kelly had been a mentor for her as far back as last November while he was still a Liberal MP.
"We've been in constant communication," she said.
She said while she "loved" Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts, Mr Palmer's party was "just gaining a lot more momentum", and said joining UAP was a relief as it had more resources than her own organisation.
"Now that Craig Kelly and Clive Palmer are creating so much momentum with UAP. It just seems it seems like RDA Party became just kind of not as important."
Ms Smit said her organisation could support other small parties, in addition to the UAP.
"My message [to my followers] is I don't care who you vote for, as long as you don't vote for the majors," she said, warning Mr Palmer against sending preferences to the LNP.
"If Clive Palmer preferences the Liberals, he will lose a lot of support from his current audience," she said.
ABC election analyst Antony Green said it was unclear how the toxic week in Victorian politics, which has included threats aimed at MPs, would affect the lead-up to the federal election.
"I'm not sure how this will play out, I don't think the Prime Minister does either," he said. "Clive Palmer's been running a very strange anti-vaccination campaign, given we're talking about 90 per cent vaccination rates in this country."
"Last Queensland election in 2020 Palmer got virtually no votes pushing an anti-vaccine message," he said. "Legalise Cannabis got more than him with a fraction the budget."
Mr Green said Palmer's preferences were split down the middle for Labor and Liberal at the 2013 election, while last in 2019 he campaigned "ferociously" against Labor.
He said UAP's messaging was more important than who it preferenced on its how to vote cards.
"Most people never see their how to vote card - what matters is the message [UAP] get across," Mr Green said.
A spokesman for the United Australia Party said the party had more than 80,000 members, claiming it was "the largest political membership in the country" and was undertaking vetting and police checks of nominated candidates.
"We haven't decided on preferences just yet, but we have said that you can't trust the Liberals, the Labor Party or the Greens."
He would not reveal when endorsed candidates would be made public.
Mr Kelly did not respond to requests for comment.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/freedom-protest-influencers-back-craig-kelly-and-clive-palmer-20211117-p599oy.html
#13083949 at 2021-03-02 05:17:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #13 - THE WAR IS REAL Edition
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Victorian parliamentary committee set to announce decision on banning Nazi symbols
abc.net.au - 2 March 2021
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Tomorrow morning, a Victorian parliamentary committee will announce its decision on whether the swastika and other Nazi symbols should be banned from public display.
Dvir Abramovich, who chairs the non-government Anti-Defamation Commission, hopes the committee members will "take the high moral ground and say enough is enough".
"I don't think the day is far away when we will see neo-Nazis marching in the streets of Melbourne's CBD with neo-Nazi flags. And if we don't change the laws, nothing will stop them," he said.
There was certainly nothing to stop a group of around 40 neo-Nazis from marching through Halls Gap in January, wearing Nazi symbols and throwing Nazi salutes.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews called it a "deficiency in the law" in 2019, when the state was similarly powerless to stop a planned neo-Nazi music festival in Melbourne.
In the end, public outcry stopped the festival from going ahead. Soon afterward, the Victorian Parliament's Legal and Social Issues Committee began inquiring into whether Victoria's racial vilification laws were fit for purpose.
Today, the Premier gave a strong hint he would be receptive to a recommendation to ban Nazi symbols from public display.
"There's no place for those views, there's no place for those symbols, there's no place for those attitude and conduct in a modern Victoria," he said.
Numerous submissions to the inquiry have argued they are not - saying the bar is too high to bring charges, and that the penalties for convictions are too low.
But Dr Abramovich said more legal tools were needed to put a stop to the growing threat of emboldened far right groups.
"They are posting, they're escalating, they are signalling to everybody that we are going to be front and centre on the public stage," he said.
Experts say the extreme right is becoming bolder than ever
The Grampians gathering was a clear example. But there are others.
On Monday, a leader of one neo-Nazi group attacked a black security guard at Channel Nine, then uploaded the video to the web.
Two weeks ago, members of another far-right group in Albury-Wodonga posted videos of themselves making threats at the workplace and home of people who had criticised them on social media.
After going underground in the wake of the Christchurch massacre, experts say the extreme right is back - and bolder than ever.
"The principal individuals in these groups have always had neo-Nazi politics. They just concealed them for pragmatic reasons," said Andy Fleming, who runs the anti-fascist blog Slackbastard and has tracked the far right for several years.
"For the most part, those pretences have been abandoned."
Victoria University academic Debra Smith, who specialises in terrorism and political violence, said the tactics used by extreme right groups had changed.
"Prior to the Christchurch massacre, there was a very strong street movement strategy around the far right - a lot of protests, a lot of 'reclaiming' of beaches, flag protests and these sorts of marches," she said.
"That's a tactic they feel clearly the need to go back to, which means that they're probably on a bit of a recruitment drive."
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#10641446 at 2020-09-14 07:50:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research AUSTRALIA #9 - Welcome to the Digital Battlefield Edition
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Ms Khalil and Dr Roose, who are senior research fellows at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, found extreme right wing groups had spread baseless conspiracy theories blaming Muslims for starting the summer bushfires as part of a jihad, the Chinese for deliberately spreading COVID-19 and the 5G network for spreading the virus. Alternative right bloggers have blamed Chinese Australians for emptying supermarket shelves and ethnic diversity for the spread of coronavirus. ISIS had also presented the virus as a punishment from God and was using it as a recruiting tool.
"Globally, dozens of 5G phone towers have been burnt in the belief that they are playing a role in spreading coronavirus, including the UK, NZ and recently in Melbourne," Dr Roose said.
"This indicated that at least some people subscribing to conspiracy theories are prepared to take violent action."
Dr Roose and Ms Khalil warned that left unaddressed, the violent extremism and distrust of government threatened to "incubate and spread, which makes maintaining and recovering government legitimacy and trust in the long term all the more difficult".
"Far-right figures have also used the government's COVID-19 response to stoke distrust in government by claiming that the government is using the crisis to control average Australians," the researchers said.
Some alternative right social media sites have promoted the idea that lockdown measures were part of government plots to control citizens beyond the crisis.
The researchers warned that disasters and emergencies play into "accelerationism" theory, found throughout the extreme right, which argues that liberal-democratic order is a failure and that its demise must be accelerated through stoking social division and violence.
Dr Roose said posts on social media sites had attacked multiculturalism as a failed project and referred to coronavirus as the "diversity flu". In a video seen by The Herald, one commentator says: "If it wasn't for diversity we wouldn't be in this mess".
Jacinta Carroll, a senior researcher from the Australian National University National Security College said the coronavirus had provided an opportunity for right wing groups in Australia to raise their profile. She said ISIS had used the coronavirus to help it raise money and supporters.
"ISIS has said that if you engage in jihad you will be immune from coronavirus. There is also quite a lot of propaganda about coronavirus being God's punishment of the west," she said.
Associate Professor Debra Smith from Victoria University said extremist groups had spread baseless conspiracy theories about the deliberate spread of the COVID-19 as a biological weapon.
Dr Kristy Campion, a lecturer and researcher at the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security (AGSPS) at Charles Sturt University, said right wing extremists had encouraged people to create fake news about the coronavirus to create social unrest on encrypted social media channels including Telegram. She said images of social division including fights over toilet paper had helped feed the extremist coronavirus panic narrative.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/disaster-planners-warned-conspiracy-theories-pose-a-security-threat-20200913-p55v55.html