{"id":10443,"date":"2021-02-25T16:57:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10443"},"modified":"2021-02-25T16:57:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T16:57:55","slug":"agencies-confirm-growing-far-right-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/agencies-confirm-growing-far-right-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Agencies confirm growing far-right threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Anti-Racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that all key government agencies have indicated in initial\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Parliamentary_Business\/Committees\/Joint\/Intelligence_and_Security\/ExtremistMovements\/Submissions\">PJCIS committee submissions<\/a>\u00a0that the threat of far-right extremism is growing.<br \/>\nHowever, the Greens say substantial policy change and political action is nowhere to be seen.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThe unanimity of federal authorities on the growing threat of far-right extremism stands in sharp contrast to the dismissive rhetoric of Government MPs.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Liberals have completely failed here. Laws on extremist hatred must be strengthened and enforced. There are still no dedicated programs for tackling far-right extremism in the community, and no commitment to an anti-racism strategy or campaign.<br \/>\n\u201cWhen MPs have their heads in the sand, or even tacitly endorse far-right ideas, it totally undermines the government&#8217;s response to this threat.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government was dragged into this inquiry kicking and screaming, and even deflected a clear-eyed focus on far-right extremism and white supremacy. Now they have to look at the evidence and respond accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Anti-Racism spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that all key government agencies have indicated in initial\u00a0PJCIS committee submissions\u00a0that the threat of far-right extremism is growing. However, the Greens say substantial policy change and political action is nowhere to be seen. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe unanimity of federal authorities on the growing threat of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/25\/agencies-confirm-growing-far-right-threat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Agencies confirm growing far-right threat&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}