- May232023Dr. Gerard Gill
Online Incitement and Small-Scale Terrorism: Violent Rhetoric from the Freedom Movement on Facebook
in InsightsRead moreIntroduction Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) Director-General Mike Burgess recently warned that the next terrorist attack in Australia is likely…
- Jan312023Dr. Gerard Gill
Millenarianism in Australia’s ‘Freedom Movement’
in InsightsRead moreIntroduction In December 2022, a six-hour siege in Wieambilla, Queensland, ended with six people dead. Police had attended a property…
- Dec192022Dr. Gerard Gill
Tracing the Evolution of Far-Right Movement Framing in Australia
in InsightsRead moreIntroduction This Insight uses current and archived online content and social movement framing theory to trace the ideological progression of…
- Jun202022Dr. Gerard Gill
Nazis, Conspiracists, and the Australian Federal Election
in InsightsRead moreIn April 2022, police opened fire at a car that was accelerating towards them in the middle of Paris, killing…
- Nov252021Dr. Gerard Gill
COVID-19 Conspiricism and the Four Ds of Stochastic Terrorism
in Coronavirus, InsightsRead moreIn the past weeks, Australian counter-terrorism officials have arrested and charged a man who encouraged anti-lockdown protesters to bring firearms…
- Oct202021Dr. Gerard Gill
The Persistence of QAnon on Mainstream Social Media
in InsightsRead moreQAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory and cultic social movement that needs little introduction. Just some of the harms it…
- Sep272021Dr. Gerard Gill
Using Text Analysis to Visualise a Neo-Nazi Leadership Change
in InsightsRead moreBy 2019 and 2020, an upsurge of far-right populism that had grown from the earlier Reclaim Australia rallies was seemingly…
- Sep082021Dr. Gerard Gill
Conspiracism, Extremism and the Battle Over Sacred Values
in Coronavirus, InsightsRead moreOn 24 July 2021 in Australia, against the backdrop of a city and state sinking further into crisis, a rally…
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