{"id":10728,"date":"2021-03-18T02:22:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10728"},"modified":"2021-03-18T02:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T02:22:36","slug":"greens-say-asio-must-name-the-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/18\/greens-say-asio-must-name-the-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens say ASIO Must Name The Far-Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens spokesperson for Anti-Racism, has criticised ASIO\u2019s shift away from naming the threat of right-wing extremism, as announced in its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asio.gov.au\/publications\/speeches-and-statements\/director-generals-annual-threat-assessment-2021.html\">2021 Annual Threat Assessment<\/a>.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cTo counter the far-right, we have to name the far-right.<br \/>\n\u201cThe people who benefit most from a failure to name far-right extremists are far-right extremists themselves.<br \/>\n\u201cASIO backing away from calling a spade a spade will harm our efforts to confront the existential threat of far-right violence.<br \/>\n\u201cMake no mistake. This shift has occurred following complaints to ASIO by right-wing Government MPs.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is no ideological equivalence here. ASIO itself has said, just weeks ago, that right wing extremism is on the rise while left wing extremism is \u201cnot currently prominent\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cASIO were happy to label extremists \u2018Islamic\u2019 when it suited the Liberals\u2019 desire to demonise a whole community, but now the group in question is predominantly young white men, it&#8217;s suddenly out of the question.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens spokesperson for Anti-Racism, has criticised ASIO\u2019s shift away from naming the threat of right-wing extremism, as announced in its\u00a02021 Annual Threat Assessment. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cTo counter the far-right, we have to name the far-right. \u201cThe people who benefit most from a failure to name far-right extremists are far-right extremists themselves. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/03\/18\/greens-say-asio-must-name-the-far-right\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens say ASIO Must Name The Far-Right&#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-10728","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\/10728","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=10728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}