Far-Right in Contemporary Australia

Mario Peucker (PhD) is a research fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities at Victoria University (Melbourne). He has undertaken multi-method research and published extensively in the areas of far-right extremism, Muslim community activism and active citizenship since 2003, both in Europe and Australia. Debra Smith (PhD) is a Senior Industry Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities at Victoria University. Her research focuses on questions of violent political extremism, social conflict and social change, with a particular interest in the role of emotion within violent extremism beliefs and action.

• 1. Far-right movements in contemporary Australia: An introduction.- 2. The Australian far-right: An international comparison of fringe and conventional politics.- 3. The values of One Nation supporters.- 4. Not a monolithic movement: The diverse and shifting messaging of Australia’s far-right.- 5. Far-right contestation in Australia: Soldiers of Odin and True Blue Crew.- 6. Transnationalising the anti-public sphere: Australian anti-publics and reactionary online media.- 7. Hear what I hear, see what I see: relating extremist rhetoric to the communities that notice it.- 8. Hijacking Democracy? Spatialised Persecution and the Planning Process.- 9.  Challenging the far-right in Australia.- 10. Conclusion: Making sense of the far-right in Australia.