Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The government rejects extremism in all of its forms, including right-wing extremism or any other. Our increase in funding and support for agencies, such as ASIO, to be able to respond to extremism enables the security agencies, as they have done, to identify the rise in different types of extremism, including the rise in right-wing extremism. The government has funded the agencies to do that work, because we know that it needs effective law enforcement and intelligence activities to respond to it. That's why we have taken that action. That's why we support the work of our agencies. We'll continue to do so, regardless of whatever type of extremism it relates to.