This CRIS commentary reports on issues we raised in response to the Inquiry into extremism in Victoria. You can read the Inquiry’s full committee report here, the full CRIS submission here, and other submissions on the Committee website.
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Professor Michele Grossman, Dr Mario Peucker and Professor Hass Dellal AO have been awarded $217,647 for a CRIS project titled: “Local CVE capacity addressing far-right extremism in Australian rural and regional communities: Protections, vulnerabilities, needs and resources” by the Department of Home Affairs.
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CRIS ‘Dynamics of Violent Extremism’ researchers published their final summary report of the ‘Symbiotic Radicalisation’ project after two years of analysis on how the far-right and far-left use three social media platforms for online political activity. Dr Mario Peucker (Victoria University), Jacob Davey (Institute for Strategic Dialogue), and Cécile Simmons (Institute for Strategic Dialogue), summarise their analysis of over 400,000 tweets and 70,000 posts from political fringe groups in Australia and recommend new approaches for policymakers, practitioners, and law enforcement to respond to far-right online mobilisation.
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