Extremism

The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade says it has not had any contact with Syrian officials about the return of a group of Australian women and children with links to the Islamic State terrorist group. 

Advocates and the former Home Affairs boss say the return of another wave of so-called 'ISIS brides' was "inevitable". But a hands-off approach means Labor lost control of the narrative. 

Four Australian women, their children and grandchildren are stuck in limbo in Syria after leaving a refugee camp for family members of suspected Islamic State fighters. This is what we know about them.

Victorian voters are being urged to look out for "misleading" party names, as right-wing activists seek to redirect progressive votes to conservative parties.

Lawyers for Bondi gunman Naveed Akram fail in a bid to have the identities of his mother, brother and sister protected by a decades-long court suppression order on safety grounds.

As detectives investigate whether the sovereign citizen community helped harbour police killer Dezi Freeman, researchers say the anti-government movement appears to be surging in regional Australia.

Ronald Sackville who led the disability royal commission says it is unlikely the the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion can properly examine the experiences of Jewish Australians before its December 2026 deadline.

The White House faces scrutiny over posts experts describe as "flat out white supremacist" amid calls for oversight after ICE agents left "death cards" in immigrants' cars. 

A lawyer has revealed Naveed Akram's mother and siblings have been targeted with abusive messages, death threats, stalking and pork chops being thrown into their driveway.

Naveed Akram faces 59 charges, including 15 counts of murder and one of committing a terrorist attack, over the shooting on December 14.

A three-page "essay of condemnation" addressed to a leader of the Sydney Muslim community sparks renewed fears of escalating threats of violence.

A teenager who slipped the intelligence net and stabbed a Sydney bishop in an alleged terrorist attack 20 months before the Bondi Beach massacre has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, a court hears.

Police recorded 197 incidents of LGBTQIA+ hate-related violence and charged 103 people over the attacks since 2023. 

An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims’ accounts of ISIS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.

An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims’ accounts of ISIS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.

A suspected serial violent homophobe linked to an Islamic State terrorist network has walked free on probation after pleading guilty to a brutal snuff-video-style gay bashing.

The New South Wales premier has flagged harsher punishments and new criminal offences in response to gay and bisexual teens being lured online and bashed on camera.

Australian doctor Jamal Rifi has been helping to coordinate a potential repatriation effort from Syria, including by obtaining passports for the families.

The sister of an Australian woman who married an Islamic State fighter has revealed how her sister was "groomed" into travelling to a war zone in Syria, where she is now stuck.

An ABC investigation has obtained distressing videos and victims' accounts of IS sympathisers hunting and bashing gay and bisexual boys on camera in Sydney.