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The NSW Council of Civil Liberties has told a Senate inquiry that extremist incidents like the Wieambilla terrorist shooting on 12 December 2022 can be partially attributed to “underlying social factors which influences at risk people towards radicalisation and violent extremist behaviour”.
On 7 December 2023, the Senate referred an inquiry into right wing extremist movements in Australia to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for inquiry and report by 6 December 2024.
Queensland police in their in-depth investigation found the deadly shooting in the rural community of Wieambilla was a “religiously motivated terrorist attack.”…