The far right and mainstream Australian politics

'When I found out that the alleged shooter was Australian, I was shocked, but you know in another way it wasn’t surprising,' says Guardian Australia columnist Jason Wilson about the terrorist attack on two mosques in Christchurch. Young men in some segments of Australian society, he says, ‘are being radicalised by an increasingly energetic and increasingly forthright and open far-right movement ... The far right is now seeing its narratives imported and reproduced by people in mainstream politics.’ Wilson, who has been following the global far-right movement for years, charts the far-right's relationship with Australia's mainstream politics and media in the wake of the devastating Christchurch attack

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